{"id":83,"date":"2011-07-09T00:53:11","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T00:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/?p=83"},"modified":"2011-07-09T03:27:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T03:27:06","slug":"learning-golf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/09\/learning-golf\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Golf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m learning to play golf! I played a fair amount in high school but never really continued in college outside of weekly par-3 games with my dad while I was studying at UIUC. Realizing that I work a 10 minute walk from the beautiful Bob O&#8217;Connor course in Schenley Park, I picked up a used set of clubs from Callaway Pre-Owned Golf and got out on the course.<\/p>\n<p>These blog posts will be a series of links to training materials and of personal notes on my process of learning to play. \u00a0I hope that others learning might find this collection useful as well.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Given that I had been out of the game for several years, I decided to approach learning from the point of view of a complete beginniner: focusing on grip, stance, and swing. \u00a0I found a great video by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hermanwilliamsgolf.com\/\">Herman <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hermanwilliamsgolf.com\/\">Williams<\/a>\u00a0that I&#8217;ve tried to emulate.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beginner Golf Lesson: Grip, Setup &amp; Swing by Herman Williams, PGA  Pro\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MlzeTOKuWJI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve excluded these posts from my main page as I think they are distinctly outside of the focus of Pete&#8217;s Projects but they can be reached in the &#8220;Golf&#8221; section of the category view on the right side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m learning to play golf! I played a fair amount in high school but never really continued in college outside of weekly par-3 games with my dad while I was studying at UIUC. Realizing that I work a 10 minute &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/09\/learning-golf\/\">Continue reading <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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[62,31,27,32],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-grip","tag-swing","tag-wrist-rotation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VqWo-1l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterklemperer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}