{"id":130,"date":"2026-02-14T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegolfistscup.co.uk\/?p=130"},"modified":"2026-02-16T08:35:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T08:35:22","slug":"cold-damp-and-muddy-just-what-the-doctor-ordered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegolfistscup.co.uk\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Cold, damp and muddy. Just what the doctor ordered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>2026 has been so far very wet and cold providing us with very little time for golf. Nonetheless today was the first day of bright sun in a while, allowing for some pitching around the Honiton golf club practice area.  I also did a 9 hole training run but the less we talk about that the better! It&#8217;s not been great out there weather wise  &#8230; that&#8217;s my excuse and I&#8217;m sticking to it! It was in any case a chance to play the regular course layout instead of the reduced 9 holes with temporary greens that we have been playing during winter. It was also a good practice for me to get hole number 2 out of my head &#8230;. God knows how many balls I have lost to those hedges so far! The results were far from brilliant but hey it&#8217;s been only  9 months since I first held a golf club so I don&#8217;t think I can ask for much in terms of scoring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case you can see bellow some examples of me trying to practice chipping and pitching, as I feel the short game is still something that needs a lot of work. This is not something we can practice at the driving range either so developing this important skill is vital now as better weather hopefully approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1620\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1080 \/ 1620;\" width=\"1080\" controls src=\"https:\/\/thegolfistscup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SmoothSwing-CYYL54R32.mov\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope to have more interesting posts soon with details of our adventures playing golf out there. In the meanwhile some practice will do us all some good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See you soon <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-author\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-author__avatar\"><img alt='' src='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ba3f5e51147f4966908ecfa542389d32f48d625eacd9fac9945ab45f14a11a1b?s=48&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g' srcset='https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ba3f5e51147f4966908ecfa542389d32f48d625eacd9fac9945ab45f14a11a1b?s=96&#038;d=mm&#038;r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-48 photo' height='48' width='48' \/><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-author__name\">Rui Moreira<\/p><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 has been so far very wet and cold providing us with very little time for golf. Nonetheless today was the first day of bright sun in a while, allowing for some pitching around the Honiton golf club practice area. I also did a 9 hole training run but the less we talk about that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11,10,13],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-chipping","tag-practice","tag-short-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolfistscup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolfistscup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolfistscup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolfistscup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolfistscup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thegolfistscup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/thegolfistscup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolfistscup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegolfistscup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolfistscup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegolfistscup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}