{"id":2343,"date":"2021-02-05T15:22:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T20:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ccmga.com\/blog\/?page_id=2343"},"modified":"2022-05-06T08:02:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T12:02:39","slug":"ready-golf-guide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ccmga.com\/blog\/ready-golf-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready Golf Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Play from the proper tee<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. If your handicap index plus your age is over 90, then you should play from the gold tees.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Don&#8217;t wait to tee off<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> based on who has honors, or wait until you are the furthest from the hole to safely hit.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Prepare in advance. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Determine shot distance and choose your club while others are hitting. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Minimize pre-shot routines<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> including practice swings. There are statistics indicating more than one practice swing\/shot adds 30 minutes or more to your round. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Don&#8217;t over analyze.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Don&#8217;t obsess over putting lines. Read your putt while others are putting and be ready to go when it is your turn. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Hit provisional shots <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">when your ball might be lost. There is a USGA Rule limiting searches to <\/span><b>3 minutes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> after arriving at the search location.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Net Double Bogey<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the maximum CCMGA score allowed.\u00a0 Pick up before your next shot if it is for net double bogey.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><b>Pick up!\u00a0 <\/b>If you can&#8217;t improve your team&#8217;s score, then pick up and move on.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play from the proper tee. If your handicap index plus your age is over 90, then you should play from the gold tees. Don&#8217;t wait to tee off based on who has<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ccmga.com\/blog\/ready-golf-guide\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2343","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2653,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2343\/revisions\/2653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccmga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}