{"id":8423,"date":"2025-10-05T07:56:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=8423"},"modified":"2025-10-05T07:56:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T14:56:56","slug":"your-pre-shot-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/your-pre-shot-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Pre-Shot Checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Golf is a game you play. Given two golfers of equal ability, the one who knows more about how to play the game will win much more often.<\/p>\n<p>You could write a whole book about that, and Raymond Floyd did just that in his book, <em>The Elements of Scoring<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>These four considerations need to be a part of your pre-shot checklist.<\/p>\n<p>1. Where do you want the ball to go? Pick a place where you can reliably get the ball to, and will make your next shot easy.<\/p>\n<p>2. What shot do you have in your skill set that will get the ball there? You often have choices.<\/p>\n<p>3. What club will you use to hit that shot? There will often be more than one.<\/p>\n<p>4. How will you hit the shot? This is about making the ball do what you want it to do.<\/p>\n<p>The more options you have to answer each of these questions, the more fun golf is, and the better player you will be, given your skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golf is a game you play. Given two golfers of equal ability, the one who knows more about how to play the game will win much more often. You could write a whole book about that, and Raymond Floyd did just that in his book, The Elements of Scoring. These four considerations need to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/your-pre-shot-checklist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Your Pre-Shot Checklist<\/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-8423","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-2bR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423","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=8423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8426,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions\/8426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}