"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge (November 2015)

[boogielicious]

Played nine today with 6 clubs, driver, 5w, 4, 7, PW and putter. It was 43F. Had a lot of fun. Focused on weight forward.

[the fish]

Practiced chipping at the golf course for about 20 minutes prior to hitting a warmup bucket and playing a round.

[RussUK]

Used my indoor "driving range"  (the attic guest suite).  has long net curtains and enough room to hit airflow balls with PW or 9iron. Concentrated on taking a shorter back swing and feeling the club accelerate on the downsing. Feels a lot better. 

[Lihu]

Stretching out the lats. Working on rotation and trying to get more weight shift.

[the fish]

Got my second evolvr lesson back this morning. At 530 in the morning, I was too dumb to figure out how to see the lesson. Anyhow, I've been swinging a club while holding one of my daughter's playground balls between my elbows. When I take the ball away, I can definitely feel a difference on my backswing, and a noticeable feeling when I get to the top. Stoked.

[adam3553]

Worked on my swing at the range today. Still working on the transition of my swing and focusing on my right arm position at A5. Ive really been struggling lately. Im thinking of just working on putting for a week and then coming back to the full swing stuff.

[Lihu]

Only hit one large bucket and didn't even get to do the simulated playing. Ended up talking to some other golfers. I did get a few good hits with my new hybrid. Starting to dial in my distance and trajectory with it, at least off a mat.

We'll see how the round goes tomorrow. Luckily, I am playing alone so it will be a practice round. I just hope I don't use up all my lifetime birdie allotments on practice rounds like last Tuesday and Wednesday.

[Lihu]

Did some stretches to prepare for my round today.

[adam3553]

Had a lesson today. Learned that my hands are working too far down in the downswing and not enough out. After working on this my contact was 100% better.

Also picked up a copy of Lowest Score Wins?

[Lihu]

9 hours ago, Lihu said:

Did some stretches to prepare for my round today.

My round was in one work "Yuck." 1 birdie, bunch of pars, a few bogeys, couple doubles and a triple and quit on the 14th after a drive that ended up 20 yards from the pin in the middle of the fairway on a 272 yard par 4 because it hit a tree and bounced back in.

I seem to focus better when people are watching me, and if I really need to make a decent shot.

If on my own, I'm totally careless. Double yuck.

[Lihu]

Did more hip turn drills and am trying a higher arm angle again to get the trajectory higher.

[Lihu]

Practice round on a hybrid of two courses again.

Played 9 holes on the short and almost 8 on the longer course.

Hit the drive of my life (accuracy and distance) on the first 301 yard par 4 hole of the long course hitting the center of the fringe immediately after telling my instructor previous to @mvmac that I made it to a 10HC. He was totally watching as I made this cool long and accurate shot. Then I quietly bogeyed the hole after I bladed my 60 degree over the green into some bushes. One shot out of the bushes and 2 putt for bogey, but luckily he wasn't watching by then. My partner was surprised when I declared a 5 after finally sunk it thinking 4 or less. My playing partner was pretty surprised by my driving on the longer course after having watched me on the shorter course. I told him that without the trees to worry about I was able to make uninhibited swings. Another super cool shot was when I hit the center of the green on the par 3 8th with a 5i landing 6 feet past the pin and stopping within 3 feet of the ball mark. Of course, the ball landed 15 feet from one of the starters (who was playing that day) and one of the people I see on the range (I think he's one of the official types in the club?). They told me to hit up. Nervous about hitting them 15 feet to the side of the pin from 190-ish yards away, I really focused hard on accuracy and hit in a perfect line with the pin landing within a foot either side of it 6 feet past. I'm still figuring out how I hit that far on those two shots.

Of course, most of the round was hitting balls into other fairways, overshooting doglegs by 2 fairways, hitting almost every tree on the course, etc. Amazed that I walked away with only a couple doubles (ironically on the shorter course), 7 bogey and one possible birdie . My putting really saved my miserable playing today, and I should have just putt from that great drive on the first.