Jump to content
IGNORED

"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge


iacas

Recommended Posts

January 5 Day 5   Like others -- it is all about indoors since it is cold outside... well 47.   So continuing to work with my Momentus Strength Trainer and Impact Ball working on maintaining a steady head, turning more into my right side on the backswing AND a straighter left arm.  It will be interesting to see how several days of indoor practice translate on Sunday when I can get outside again.
 

Also worked on solidifying my golf goals for 2018 and a plan for achieving them. :-)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

1/5/17:

279 in a row.

Cont'd indoor work with my path drill with the soda bottles today. Mostly for feedback and to build on what I practiced yesterday as today I did more of 9:00 to 3:00 swings with this drill. 86 more days to one year.

What's in Shane's Bag?     

Ball: 2022 :callaway: Chrome Soft Triple Track

Driver: :callaway:Paradym Triple Diamond 8° MCA Kai’li 70s FW: :callaway:Paradym Triple Diamond  H: :callaway: Apex Pro 21 20°

I (3-PW) :callaway: Apex 21 UST Recoil 95 (3), Recoil 110 (4-PW). Wedges: :callaway: Jaws Raw 50°, 54°, 60° UST Recoil 110

Putter: :odyssey: Tri-Hot 5K Triple Wide 35”

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

1/6/17:

280 in a row.

I'm going to sound like a broken record here. Or a CD that skips a lot. But I continued my work on my path today with my path drill. I didn't explain this completely before. It's like the "gate drill" and you can do it on the range with tees. But this drill though it is similar, more or less promotes a draw sort of path. You set up two water bottles, your kids blocks, stuffed animals, whatever you have handy. You set one on the target side of the ball, inside of the target line by a few inches maybe 6-12 inches in front of the ball. You set the other up behind the ball outside of the target line. The object is to miss the bottles on the backswing, downswing, and follow-through. I'm pretty much to the point of using pretty much half-swings and missing the bottles. I have another lesson coming up, on my "staycation" in two weeks. (Someone got my a GC to get 5 1-hour indoor lessons for Christmas).

This particular drill is what he has me working on currently. The scary thing is, I'm nervous to see what the results are going to be on the monitor in a couple weeks.

What's in Shane's Bag?     

Ball: 2022 :callaway: Chrome Soft Triple Track

Driver: :callaway:Paradym Triple Diamond 8° MCA Kai’li 70s FW: :callaway:Paradym Triple Diamond  H: :callaway: Apex Pro 21 20°

I (3-PW) :callaway: Apex 21 UST Recoil 95 (3), Recoil 110 (4-PW). Wedges: :callaway: Jaws Raw 50°, 54°, 60° UST Recoil 110

Putter: :odyssey: Tri-Hot 5K Triple Wide 35”

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

6/1/18 - Played 18 with a mate and didn't play well. Held it together on the front nine (+5) in spite of my driver play being non-existent, but it just went downhill from there. Struggled with the cold and was losing everything right, which was really surprising - couldn't work out why either until about the 17th. I think it was the old, poor hand path coming back, so will work on that tomorrow. On the plus side, my short game and scrambling in general was really good. I'm starting to see the low pitch and run far more and having confidence to use it on the course, which is a completely new shot for me that changes quite a lot of things. Lots to work on, but the key thing will be finding that driver swing to take to the course.

Currently focusing on: Key 4 - shorter backswing.

What's in the bag: Callaway X2 Hot Driver, Titleist 915F 3 wood, X2 Hot 3 Hybrid, 3, 5-AW Apex Pro irons, 54*, 58* Cleveland RTX, Odyssey Versa 1 Putter

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

On 1/5/2018 at 6:54 AM, Lihu said:

Doing more drill swings with the swing simulator. I’ve made three versions of the swing simulator. Two seem pretty reasonable, and help me with my sequencing. Trying to make it more “automatic”. Also, doing the hands 2 feet apart on a club while doing a “real swing” drill.

Taking a practice swing before my “real swing” with a really slow takeaway and transition then accelerating only after A6

Taking a practice swing before my “real swing” with a really slow takeaway and transition then accelerating at various positions from A5 to A6 to get a feel how it affects my club head speed at impact. Starting to really use my old swing speed monitor. Paired with the Mevo for actual strikes and the swing speed monitor used for practice swings gives me a good velocity profile.

Starting to use the radar sensors to pick up peak velocity position.

:ping:  :tmade:  :callaway:   :gamegolf:  :titleist:

TM White Smoke Big Fontana; Pro-V1
TM Rac 60 TT WS, MD2 56
Ping i20 irons U-4, CFS300
Callaway XR16 9 degree Fujikura Speeder 565 S
Callaway XR16 3W 15 degree Fujikura Speeder 565 S, X2Hot Pro 20 degrees S

"I'm hitting the woods just great, but I'm having a terrible time getting out of them." ~Harry Toscano

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

Day 6

10 minutes of putting practice 3-6 feet. Working on alignment, stroke, follow through. Goal is to greatly reduce or eliminate 3 putts, to be 95% from 3 feet. Working on routine of align putter, take stance, slight forward press and go. Working on consistency in set up. Finished up at three feet until 3 balls in a row stay in the cup.

If time and weather permit, I may go to range later today and do a second post, but wanted to complete the commitment in the now.

Edited by dbuck

Don

In the bag:

Driver: PING 410 Plus 9 degrees, Alta CB55 S  Fairway: Callaway Rogue 3W PX Even Flow Blue 6.0; Hybrid: Titleist 818H1 21* PX Even Flow Blue 6.0;  Irons: Titleist 718 AP1 5-W2(53*) Shafts- TT AMT Red S300 ; Wedges Vokey SM8 56-10D Putter: Scotty Cameron 2016 Newport 2.5  Ball: Titleist AVX or 2021 ProV1

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

January 6 Day 6   Early part of the day working on my swing indoors.  Hoping to get out in the afternoon to work on the range.  Continue working with Momentus Strength Trainer, and Impact Ball and shortened club.  Using the 6 Steps of  Swing from the Gary Gilchrist Golf Academy, where I take lessons, I am working on position #2 (90 degrees) and position #3 (top of backswing).  Working to stay on plane going back, with straighter left arm, and turning into right hip to reduce/eliminate sway.

I break this up into 5 minute segments, 3-4 times a day, so I am investing 15 - 20 minutes a day on this... .like today!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

Day 6. Cold with intermittent rain/drizzle.

Played 9 holes today, no practice other than some warm up swings prior to playing. Shot a 43, with no 6s. Good enough considering........

In My Bag:
A whole bunch of Tour Edge golf stuff...... :beer:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

7/1/18 - Got my evolvr reviews back from Preston and spent 20 minutes working on each of my new priority pieces for putting and full swing. Full swing was 20 minutes of mirror work on limiting left knee flex and hip rotation in the backswing - lots of slow motion feel work and checking that there's progressive movement at A1, A2, A3 and A4 (currently, the knee moves out a lot between A1 and A2 and does very little else thereafter, meaning that the wrist angles at the top of the backswing crumble a bit).

Putting-wise, more time on the mat, a few more tweaks to the setup (getting shoulders level) and lots of work on tempo.

Currently focusing on: Key 4 - shorter backswing.

What's in the bag: Callaway X2 Hot Driver, Titleist 915F 3 wood, X2 Hot 3 Hybrid, 3, 5-AW Apex Pro irons, 54*, 58* Cleveland RTX, Odyssey Versa 1 Putter

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

On 1/6/2018 at 8:06 AM, Lihu said:

Taking a practice swing before my “real swing” with a really slow takeaway and transition then accelerating at various positions from A5 to A6 to get a feel how it affects my club head speed at impact. Starting to really use my old swing speed monitor. Paired with the Mevo for actual strikes and the swing speed monitor used for practice swings gives me a good velocity profile.

Starting to use the radar sensors to pick up peak velocity position.

Taking a practice swing before my “real swing” with a really slow takeaway and transition then accelerating at various positions from A5 to A6 to get a feel how it affects my club head speed at impact.

Adding some acceleration at A6, but I think it’s possibly causing me to cast a bit. My PW launch angle was too high yesterday at the range.

So, I’m going to try waiting until past A6. Too bad I can’t monitor muscle contraction so I can measure where I’m actually starting to “fire the whip”.

 

Side note, proud that my son is picking up Python up pretty quickly with my tutoring right now. He’s got some knack for programming. :dance:

:ping:  :tmade:  :callaway:   :gamegolf:  :titleist:

TM White Smoke Big Fontana; Pro-V1
TM Rac 60 TT WS, MD2 56
Ping i20 irons U-4, CFS300
Callaway XR16 9 degree Fujikura Speeder 565 S
Callaway XR16 3W 15 degree Fujikura Speeder 565 S, X2Hot Pro 20 degrees S

"I'm hitting the woods just great, but I'm having a terrible time getting out of them." ~Harry Toscano

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

1/7/18:

It's actually 282 in a row.

Again another broken record day. Still working with my path drill indoors with my previously mentioned water bottle drill. Three-quarter swings today.

  • Thumbs Up 1

What's in Shane's Bag?     

Ball: 2022 :callaway: Chrome Soft Triple Track

Driver: :callaway:Paradym Triple Diamond 8° MCA Kai’li 70s FW: :callaway:Paradym Triple Diamond  H: :callaway: Apex Pro 21 20°

I (3-PW) :callaway: Apex 21 UST Recoil 95 (3), Recoil 110 (4-PW). Wedges: :callaway: Jaws Raw 50°, 54°, 60° UST Recoil 110

Putter: :odyssey: Tri-Hot 5K Triple Wide 35”

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

Day 7

Spent a few minutes again working on driver setup/stance using tile grout lines. Purpose is to improve setup for better launch, more distance. When I line up with the ball left shoulder/left instep, face square, "two knuckle" left hand grip, I can actually see some loft on the face, which is set to 9.5. A video shows I have had the ball way farther back in my stance than I thought. From above, old position with the same grip, I saw very little loft, and in the video it appears to have forward lean on the shaft and almost no loft at address. I need to add a mirror, and additional video after the change. My left arm and the shaft are more in line, and closer to perpendicular to the ground. My hands are over my left thigh, just inside my left knee. Also working on having less tension in my arms at setup, to hopefully increase speed.

Spent a few minutes on my 3 foot putt drills.

Total time, 12-15 minutes.

Edited by dbuck

Don

In the bag:

Driver: PING 410 Plus 9 degrees, Alta CB55 S  Fairway: Callaway Rogue 3W PX Even Flow Blue 6.0; Hybrid: Titleist 818H1 21* PX Even Flow Blue 6.0;  Irons: Titleist 718 AP1 5-W2(53*) Shafts- TT AMT Red S300 ; Wedges Vokey SM8 56-10D Putter: Scotty Cameron 2016 Newport 2.5  Ball: Titleist AVX or 2021 ProV1

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

Day 7. Did some more chipping practice today. My focus is still on keeping eyes on the spot the ball is on after impact. Finished up with a few pump swings. 

In My Bag:
A whole bunch of Tour Edge golf stuff...... :beer:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

Jan 7  Day 7   Finally got outside.  Spent 3 hours on the range working with drills from the book, "Train for Golf Like an Olympian"  focusing particularly on what I have been working on indoors -- centered head, straighter left arm on backswing and turning into the right hip.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

8/1/18 - another twenty minutes putting on the template this morning just working on tempo and length of stroke. Quite a number of these putts were with my eyes closed to try to ignore the ball (and these actually produce the best results). I’d say I’m currently going at the rate of three practice strokes on the template, then actually hitting a ball. I’m going to do my ten minutes on full swing work with the mirror and looking at that knee flex later this afternoon, but didn’t want to forget to post!

Currently focusing on: Key 4 - shorter backswing.

What's in the bag: Callaway X2 Hot Driver, Titleist 915F 3 wood, X2 Hot 3 Hybrid, 3, 5-AW Apex Pro irons, 54*, 58* Cleveland RTX, Odyssey Versa 1 Putter

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

Jan 8 Day 8   Up early and have already got in my 5 minutes.. using the Momentus Strength Training and the Impact Ball..  continuing to work on turning into my right hip on the backswing, and straighter left arm with a quieter head.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

22 hours ago, Lihu said:

Taking a practice swing before my “real swing” with a really slow takeaway and transition then accelerating at various positions from A5 to A6 to get a feel how it affects my club head speed at impact.

Adding some acceleration at A6, but I think it’s possibly causing me to cast a bit. My PW launch angle was too high yesterday at the range.

So, I’m going to try waiting until past A6. Too bad I can’t monitor muscle contraction so I can measure where I’m actually starting to “fire the whip”.

Practicing more practice swing accelerating at or after A6 to see if I can get a whip in a methodical fashion rather than so "random". The trigger point is likely closer to A5 then my body reacts somewhere after A6.

:ping:  :tmade:  :callaway:   :gamegolf:  :titleist:

TM White Smoke Big Fontana; Pro-V1
TM Rac 60 TT WS, MD2 56
Ping i20 irons U-4, CFS300
Callaway XR16 9 degree Fujikura Speeder 565 S
Callaway XR16 3W 15 degree Fujikura Speeder 565 S, X2Hot Pro 20 degrees S

"I'm hitting the woods just great, but I'm having a terrible time getting out of them." ~Harry Toscano

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

1/8/17:

283 days in a row.

Path drill with my water bottle apparatus again. Boy am I trying to get this ingrained. I actually took some slow full swings with it today. (Perhaps~70% speed). I did hit the target side bottle a few times at first (just clipped it the last couple times) but after making a slight adjustment, I was able to do the drill about a dozen times in a row without hitting either bottle. So I'll consider that a small success.

The main reason I've been doing this drill so much, is because the instructor I selected, thinks that getting my path more from the inside-out, will do two things. A) help me make more consistent contact (which will help me hit it further). B) help me achieve my goal of becoming a very-low single digit handicap... Me becoming a scratch is probably out of the question.

What's in Shane's Bag?     

Ball: 2022 :callaway: Chrome Soft Triple Track

Driver: :callaway:Paradym Triple Diamond 8° MCA Kai’li 70s FW: :callaway:Paradym Triple Diamond  H: :callaway: Apex Pro 21 20°

I (3-PW) :callaway: Apex 21 UST Recoil 95 (3), Recoil 110 (4-PW). Wedges: :callaway: Jaws Raw 50°, 54°, 60° UST Recoil 110

Putter: :odyssey: Tri-Hot 5K Triple Wide 35”

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Awards, Achievements, and Accolades

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

Welcome to TST! Signing up is free, and you'll see fewer ads and can talk with fellow golf enthusiasts! By using TST, you agree to our Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy, and our Guidelines.

The popup will be closed in 10 seconds...