{"id":8335,"date":"2025-06-23T16:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=8335"},"modified":"2025-06-23T16:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T23:13:21","slug":"hit-it-straight-not-far-at-the-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/hit-it-straight-not-far-at-the-range\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit It Straight, Not Far, At the Range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you go to the driving range, concentrate only on hitting the ball straight and to a target you have picked out. Pay no attention to how far the ball goes.<\/p>\n<p>Range balls, especially ones that you can tell are old, won&#8217;t go as far as the ones you play golf with. If you try to get the distance from a range ball that you think you should get, you wind up changing your swing to put more oomph into it, and ruin everything you came to the range to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, straight and accurate. That&#8217;s all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you go to the driving range, concentrate only on hitting the ball straight and to a target you have picked out. Pay no attention to how far the ball goes. Range balls, especially ones that you can tell are old, won&#8217;t go as far as the ones you play golf with. If you try &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/hit-it-straight-not-far-at-the-range\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hit It Straight, Not Far, At the Range<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-2ar","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335","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=8335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8337,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8335\/revisions\/8337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}