"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge December 2016

[Strat-Pack Rick]

HAHA !!!! Early day !!  Headed to range and going to work on my long irons & hybrid ball flight. Also gonna chip and pitch. Proximity practice for one putts. Hit Em Good yall.

[Patch]

Not sure what I am doing wrong, but the last couple times I have replied to this topic, my previous posts have been waiting for me to send. I will try it one more time. 

Day 7; exercise day for my dogs and I. We went to the dry lake where the dogs could run freely, and I could walk with them, and practice hitting my 6i Hogan Apex off the thin lies the lake bed has to offer. Idea is to catch the ball first, then the dirt, in front of the ball, with my hands leading the club head through impact. Anything hit even remotely fat, and I know it right away. 

I always aim at something every time I hit the ball. Even in practice. Targets on the dry lake are areas between any two bushes I deem appropriate. This also  allows me to work on my stance, and alignment. 

[woodzie264]

12/07 - range session. Focus was on steady head and balanced weight shift. Hit well, drove pretty well. Probably would've putted the crap today if I had played 

[Mico]

20 min alt Sklz and driver. With Sklz, I can feel the top of the back swing and start the lower body uncoil and drag the arms and trainer thru the swing zone. I can even forget about the wrist action as the trainer snaps threw. Unfortunately, it's not always a controled swing and does not always follow inside out path.

with the driver, it's harder to feel the top of the back swing and turn of lower body. Club comes threw swing area largely with arms and sometimes very little body. 

Tomorrow is a holiday here, maybe I'll have more time to work on the swing

 

[CarlSpackler]

Made some slow swings again. Working on flat left wrist. 

[woodzie264]

12/08: 8-10ft putts on flat surface with focus on beak (over lunch break)

[RandallT]

12/8: Range work with video. Working on A3 to A4. Hand depth. Flat left wrist. Initial move to shallow club.

[boogielicious]

12/8 - Mirror work at gym before my workout. Focused on centered hip turn and weight forward at impact with slower swings. Only went to A9.

[iacas]

Was going to go downtown to work with some guys on their putting, but the weather's not great so we're staying home.

So… I worked on my putting using the http://perfectstroke.org in my finished basement while watching Bryson DeChambeau cheat at the Shark Shootout.

[Strat-Pack Rick]

Set up my net and hit about 30 balls I reckon. Focusing on still head and good take away. Putting practice doing Mickelson's Putting circle @ 4ft and 6ft. Goal is to get 60% at 6ft. That is so hard to do, I use ten balls and only two are straight. The rest break a little to a lot. I love this putting drill. It feels real , just like a putt for par on the course.

56 minutes ago, iacas said:

Was going to go downtown to work with some guys on their putting, but the weather's not great so we're staying home.

So… I worked on my putting using the http://perfectstroke.org in my finished basement while watching Bryson DeChambeau cheat at the Shark Shootout.

I missed the DeChambeau thing ! What did he do ?haha. 

[iacas]

39 minutes ago, Strat-Pack Rick said:

I missed the DeChambeau thing ! What did he do ?haha. 

Look at the picture!

[Strat-Pack Rick]

1 hour ago, iacas said:

Look at the picture!

They were all doing that all day. I thought it was illegal but they all did it ????? Guess i just thought you meant something else. Heck, Sneds made a 40 footer after getting a read off somebody !

[Patch]

Day 8; went to the short game practice area today. Spent about 20 minutes working on my bunker game, hitting balls to a pin about 10 yards away. Obviously the plan was to get the ball as close to the pin as possible. Used different areas of the bunker to hit from. Also worked on my raking technique. 

After that, using the same pin, I moved out of the bunker, and worked on flopping balls over the bunker. Focus here was to mentally get over the hazard being in my way, to get to the pin. Also working on my flop shot swing. Spent about 10 minutes there. 

After that was just some simple putting practice for another 10 minutes. Alignment, and messing around with a ancient grip were the focus. 

[CarlSpackler]

Tonight I made full swings with no ball. I used my mini mat to keep from taking divots in the backyard. 

[Mico]

20 min Alt SKLZ trainer and driver. The search is on to find what keeps me from swinging from inside to out. Check each step of the way in slow mo and then I step on the gas. Gotta find if

[OrangeHog]

A few days late but here's what I checked off tonight...

- Hit around 25-30 balls into the NetReturn tonight - 7 iron (full), Gap Wedge (full and 1/2), 58* (1/4), 3 wood.

- Went into the house and took around 20 swings with the iron length Orange Whip then worked on some slow motion and 50% speed swings with my driver.

- Next went on to putting.  Rolled around 20 putts to a 4 foot target then around 10-15 putts to a 20 foot target.

That's it.  Just trying to stay loose since it's a bit too cold to hit the range outdoors right now.  Hopefully it warms up tomorrow so I can get out and hit a bucket of balls.

[woodzie264]

12/09 - kettle bell swing for balance weight shift with focus on steady head. 

Grip, stance, slow take away, low point control w/wedge x 5 mins

[Patch]

Playe 9 holes with my son in law this morning. Played pretty well with a 39, with 14 putts. Never used my driver because I just never felt "loose enough" to swing it due to the chilly temps. Just went with what I had swing wise. Really happy I switched to the left hand low putting grip. Then again, perhaps it was my old "Rail Gun" putter I took out of moth balls for nostalgia reasons.