"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge April 2017

[woodzie264]

4/05 - kettle bell swings with focus on forward weight shift WHILE maintaining a centered hip turn. 

[woodzie264]

4/05. Part II - worked on lag putts x 1.5 hrs since I suck at 'em

[Wanzo]

6 hours ago, woodzie264 said:

4/05 - kettle bell swings with focus on forward weight shift WHILE maintaining a centered hip turn. 

do you find the kettle bell swings help quite a bit with what you are working on in your swing?  I've worked out with kettle bells and it's a great full body workout but I've never thought of using them in a specific way to train my golf swing. 

[onthehunt526]

4/5/17:

Hit some 5-irons focusing on rhythm and timing this morning.

[woodzie264]

1 hour ago, Wanzo said:

do you find the kettle bell swings help quite a bit with what you are working on in your swing?  I've worked out with kettle bells and it's a great full body workout but I've never thought of using them in a specific way to train my golf swing. 

Got the idea from LSW; I'm sure I do them differently than Erik intended, but doing them my way clearly reinforces the process of forward weight shift.  I used to do them much more regularly, but since my priority piece is now a centered turn, I do more wall drills and slower turns than anything else. 

[Wanzo]

8 minutes ago, woodzie264 said:

Got the idea from LSW; I'm sure I do them differently than Erik intended, but doing them my way clearly reinforces the process of forward weight shift.  I used to do them much more regularly, but since my priority piece is now a centered turn, I do more wall drills and slower turns than anything else. 

gotcha, I remember a medicine ball drill, maybe same effect.  Keep up the daily practice!

[b101]

Posting for today and yesterday as no internet yesterday (my one-off!)

My two weeks of good golf finished with two more really good rounds. Played to 7 over twice around two tough tracks. Driving was mixed, but great when 'on' and I made some absurdly good scrambles - the highlight an up-and-down from a bunker at 160 yards... The one obvious point for work is my bunker play, which has been abysmal. I know the new Edel wedges will make this easier, but my technique is pitiful...

4/4/17 - https://www.gamegolf.com/player/benpage101/round/1474165

5/4/17 - https://www.gamegolf.com/player/benpage101/round/1474166

[chris3putt]

5th April:- Further full swing practice, outdoors, 6 iron, no ball. Still working on the backswing, specifically from takeaway to A2 (the right arm feel I posted about yesterday), but also starting to add in the next "segment" up to A4. Feeling a lot more connected through out the movement.

[Mico]

30 min

sklz, 7 iron and driver

stop at top, pump, step thru and full swings

 

3/3 alt 7 iron and driver sets

the takeaway was amazingly good tonight. So good that I took an extra 10 min of sets with Sklz, 7 iron and driver trying to see if my form would falter as I got more tired. It didn't which means a) I am getting stronger, b) I am not practicing long enough every night or c) both!

[roamin]

4/5: More rain this evening. Didn't want to putt at home since it's a lot faster than the course. Just spent about 20 minutes going over strategy for Friday.

[BamaWade]

4/5:  5 mins. wall drills; choked down half on Momentus and super-slo-mo swings w/focus on turn without sway, then initiating downswing w/hip turn, then extended shaft line on downswing tracing plane into ball, and forward lean at impact w/proper hip drive (again, no sway) into release.

[onthehunt526]

4/6/17:

A five or six pitching wedges followed by five or six 7-irons followed by four or so four irons. Working on slowing down my backswing a bit.

[boogielicious]

4/6 - Mirror work with easy swings. Working on turning from A4 to A7 with more open hips at A7.

[b101]

6/4/17 - lots of slow practice swings in the back garden, really feeling that slightly steeper takeaway and a little pause in transition to bump the hips forward. Felt pretty good and looking forward to taking it to the range tomorrow.

[chris3putt]

6th April:- Spent 15 mins on the full swing following from a video session. Am still allowing the clubhead to come inside up to A2, but not as much. Need to really exaggerate the feeling of it staying outside the hands, a-la Rickie Fowler. Will work on this tomorrow.

Edited April 6, 2017 by chris3putt

[Mico]

20 min !!!

sklz, 7 iron and driver

stop at top, pump, step Thur and full swings

3/3 alt 7 iron and driver

ok, so the takeaway was great again tonight and so I wanted to do extra sets of all the swings after my normal routine. I did. And when I called it quits and walked back into the house, only 20 min had elapsed!!! I don't know where extra 10 min went and I did not see Rod Serling smoking a cigarette and talking about the twillight zone.

only tomorrow will tell.

no golf this weekend, ugh 

travel next week so it will be hard to keep my routine alive

 

[woodzie264]

4/6 - wall drills & lag putts down office hallway 

[roamin]

4/6: 30 minutes on the practice green at the course today, practicing 5- and 10-foot putts from all around the hole, then another 30 minutes or so of pitching from various lies.