{"id":8307,"date":"2025-04-23T10:12:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T17:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=8307"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:12:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T17:12:48","slug":"the-truth-about-a-single-digit-handicap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/the-truth-about-a-single-digit-handicap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Truth About a Single-Digit Handicap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This how you have to play to get into single digits, based on my experience having been there.<\/p>\n<p>1. Get the ball on the green or green-high in 38 strokes or less. <\/p>\n<p>2. Get your first short game shot* on the green. Two short shots in a row is a big no-no.<\/p>\n<p>3. Hit greenside chips to one-putt distance.<\/p>\n<p>4. Hit approach putts over 20 feet to one-putt distance.<\/p>\n<p>5. Be very good putting from four feet and in. I mean VERY good.<\/p>\n<p>* Pitches, chips, sand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This how you have to play to get into single digits, based on my experience having been there. 1. Get the ball on the green or green-high in 38 strokes or less. 2. Get your first short game shot* on the green. Two short shots in a row is a big no-no. 3. Hit greenside &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/the-truth-about-a-single-digit-handicap\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Truth About a Single-Digit Handicap<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playing-the-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-29Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307","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=8307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8310,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions\/8310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}