{"id":8167,"date":"2024-09-22T10:22:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T17:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=8167"},"modified":"2024-09-22T17:10:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T00:10:03","slug":"dont-overdo-your-swing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/dont-overdo-your-swing\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Overdo Your Swing"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are lots of points you have to pay attention to in your golf swing. By that, I mean the points that make your<\/em> golf swing work. There are likely more than one or two. I have six. <\/p>\n

What I’m getting at today is that you don’t have to exaggerate any of them. Don’t overdo them. Just hit each mark in a relaxed way as you proceed through the swing, and you will be just fine.<\/p>\n

Harvey Penick said it well when he advised us in his Little Red Book<\/em> that if he asks you to take an aspirin, please don’t take the whole bottle. <\/p>\n

The hands lead the clubhead going into the ball? Just by a few inches. Not by a whole foot.<\/p>\n

Retain your lag at the start of the forward swing? Yes, just at the start. Don’t hold on for dear life all the way into the ball.<\/p>\n

And so on. <\/p>\n

Another way to put it is that when you swing the club, a beginner watching you should say, “That looks so easy to do!” <\/p>\n

They shouldn’t think, “Oh, my. I could never do that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are lots of points you have to pay attention to in your golf swing. By that, I mean the points that make your golf swing work. There are likely more than one or two. I have six. What I’m getting at today is that you don’t have to exaggerate any of them. Don’t overdo … Continue reading Don’t Overdo Your Swing<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf-swing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-27J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8167"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8171,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8167\/revisions\/8171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}