{"id":380,"date":"2014-08-05T15:42:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T15:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2024-02-26T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T21:20:00","slug":"golf-tip-lower-your-handicap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/golf-tip-lower-your-handicap\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf Tip: Lower Your Handicap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are truly serious about lowering your handicap, you must get it done on the greens.\u00a0 The best players in the world recognize that it is their ability to roll the flatstick that wins tournaments.\u00a0\u00a0Imagine that you just shot 72, with two putts on every hole.\u00a0 That&#8217;s 36 putts in your round.\u00a0 That&#8217;s half of your shots!\u00a0 Yet, you probably spend no more than a quarter of your time practicing your putting.\u00a0 What gives?! To start shooting lower scores, you need to\u00a0<strong>develop a practice regimen<\/strong>\u00a0that gives your putting the time it deserves.\u00a0 If you are not routinely\u00a0putting less than 30\u00a0putts per round,\u00a0<strong>you need to spend at least half of your practice time on the putting green<\/strong>.\u00a0 Focus on your\u00a0<strong>speed for lengthy<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>putts\u00a0<\/strong>and your\u00a0<strong>aligment for shorter putts<\/strong>.\u00a0 This helps you develop the proper blend of feel and mechanics you need to make more putts. \u00a0At Junior Players Golf Academy, we offer a Short Game School that will have you putting like the pros!\u00a0 Let one of our experienced instructors fine-tune your putting skills and help lower your scores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are truly serious about lowering your handicap, you must get it done on the greens.\u00a0 The best players in the world recognize that it is their ability to roll the flatstick that&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[26,21,19,16,17,20,27,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jrpga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}