"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge (May 2015)

[JP golf]

5 minutes:

swing and stop - backswing to top, no ball....   outside.....

May 3, (3 in a row)

[Abu3baid]

Did 5 minutes or more at work just turning my hips and shoulders to A4 and back.. Trying to get a good feeling at the top.. Then did a little more than 5 minutes with a club holding it with my hands a few hands width apart and getting to A4 feeling the stretching of the back and my right elbow staying ahead of the shirt seam.. Then finally putting the hands together and swinging out slowly..

[Huddo]

Experimenting with a more upright posture to try and solve my problem with lifting up during the backswing. Using a mirror and video for feedback and hope to get out to the range tomorrow to update my swing thread.

[Vinsk]

Lag putts today. My feel for distance is dismal. I wish there were better bunker practice facilities. Not a high SV but I do t like having zero practice.

[RFKFREAK]

Did some practice swings w/o a club in front of my mirror this morning trying to shorten my backswing before going out to play in the afternoon

[iacas]

Fifteen minutes downtown with a 9I feeling a good backswing and the hands going OUT toward (over) the ball to get the contact off the toe a little.

[boogielicious]

I did 15 minutes of pitching work followed by 10 minutes of my drill with the driver. I did not hit balls with the driver but focused on my positions, especially A5, 6 and 8.

The pitching work had 5 minutes just on technique followed by 10 of random target.  The grass in my yard had some thick spots, which was great to work with.  I tried both with and against grain to see what would happen.  I only used my gap wedge in this session.

[onthehunt526]

5/3/15 Worked on wedge distance control today, was getting the feeling in stilled that I need to swing the same speed no matter the length of swing... And you know something... It actually works... It's nice to know that I have three full swing motion shots to hit the ball 75 yards... Also re-read a few chapters in LSW...

[WUTiger]

Spent half hour at the range today, started with basic dynamic stretches.  Then, I worked on my problem club from yesterday, the 58º LW.

Started out in hell grass, then 6" rough, then shots with a fluffy but not terrible lie.

Lessons learned: Need to pull through with left hand to move through thick turf; need to rotate hips to keep shot smooth - gravity-drop lob shots don't work in shaggy turf. AND, it's better to be a little fat and 20 feet short, rather than hit it thin and knock it over the green.

[WatchOutLeft]

Took quite a few half power swings focusing on hitting down on the ball and then the ground instead of picking it like I usually do. I used the towel on the ground behind the ball aid. Worked on pitching.

[SavvySwede]

Managed to give the whole game a bit of a workout today

20 minutes pitching and chipping

10 minutes putting

20 minutes hitting into the net

[Slowcelica]

Practiced my evolvr lesson, not being layer off at the top of the backswing.

[Big C]

Spent 10 minutes in the living room with a pw and a plastic ball. Again, I worked on rotating my left knee inward on the takeaway while keeping a steady head.

[Tgb02]

Played 18 and then practiced for an hour. Really worked on my chipping and lag putting after I shot a 94 that could of been a 85 if I could of chipped and putted.

[billchao]

Got mine in today while taking a 20 minute break from yard work. Still mapping the backswing. It's getting easier now, but I haven't done it over a real golf ball yet, so that's going to come soon. I swung down at speed until about A9 or so just to see if the new backswing changes my tendency to roll the forearms hard (it didn't). Started mapping out a new downswing feel, too.

[J M Brown]

I did twenty minutes outside working on weight transfer with plastic wife balls.

[Shindig]

After today's round (a disappointing 90 that included only 3 GIR + 3 near-GIR), I realized I need to work on alignment. I had four consecutive approach shots (four different holes, not three OB + reloads) where I had a perfect lie and a clean shot at a waiting green, only to hit the ball wide right. Maybe I pushed them. Maybe I lined up poorly. I need to know. For four shots that I feel should have been [i]at least[/i] three near-GIR or better, I played the holes that had that available in +6. One of those was a par when I chipped in... for par. Today's round also reminded me that I've been negligent in the medicine ball drill Erik prescribed a few weeks ago. After I cooled down post-round, I did some medicine ball swings for a few minutes (it was a little more than five) and am trying to practice setting up to the ball, as though I were going to attempt to hit the hinges on my front door. Other than putting a club against my thighs, I have no way of checking if I'm lined up right, so I'm going to abandon this line of thinking for now, and move it to tomorrow's practice (targets at the range). Maybe I'll get some soft balls and hit the So, in conclusion, today's practice: [LIST] [*] Pre-round warm-up, although I did fewer drills than yesterday. This might have been a mistake, given my relative non-putting performances. [*] Played 18. Have we decided if this constitutes practice? [*] Medicine ball; does that constitute practice? If I do this regularly, I'll hit my driver further, and that certainly is improvement (the goal of practice) [*] Possibly misguided home alignment work. [/LIST] Maybe at some point we should discuss what one should do for practice on days we play. I know I'm rarely in condition to practice after a round, even though that might be the best time to do so.

[oregongolfguy]

Worked on shoulder turn again, head against wall this morning. Pre round put work into the shoulder turn and firing my arms down and out. It is coming along nicely.