"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge

[JuanTheGolfer]

Day 77      Started the morning with a 90 minute session on the putting green.  Continuing with the 10,000 Putt Challenge. Focus on posture and balance.   Then to the range for 3 hours.   Working through the Technical/Motion Drills from my GGGA workbook.  Still focusing on turning on the backswing instead of swaying    Making progress.

[lastings]

Day 17:

2/15/14

went to hit balls, focusing mostly on Driver.  (again).   Frankly, today was not as successful.   was pushing a few balls out to the right a bit, that had a touch of right spin.   which, for now, is ok.  As long as my path is to the right and I'm just leaving the club face open a bit.  1 degree in-to-out path and 1.5 degree open face will produce that result.   unfortunately, I don't think that was what was happening today,   seems like path was neutral and face was open a bit.   there may have been a few swings where path was out-to-in a tiny bit.   That is not not ok.   it's just really a step back from what i am trying to change.  

on the positive side, I was not pushing balls far right at all.  closer to dead straight just tailing off at the end.  these would have been right edge of the fairway or short rough.   So it is encouraging that on a bad swing day, the misses are getting better and better.   But, I just feel that if I can't control the direction the ball is spinning, I'm just not going to find the consistency I'm looking for.  

[iacas]

Day 13: February 15, 2018 - Slow motion stuff at home, with a mirror. This is the one day this week I won't be downtown at Golf Evolution.

[RickPro]

Day 14

putted in the living room for 20 minutes from 5,10,15,20 feet. putted with only one hand, left hand 1st, then right hand 2nd. this was difficult. left hand i was pulling putts, right hand i was pushing putts. after practicing, I was able to recognise i suck. now I am able to keep it on line and straight now. put both hand together and no problem. will try again when i go to the course tomorrow and practice with breaks in the green instead of just a flat surface.

[dbuck]

Day 46

10 minutes of putting working on alignment and stroke. Having some progress at settling on a comfortable, repeatable setup.

 

 

 

[woodzie264]

Day - 3

raining outside. 20 mins worth of lag putting down hallway (approx. 45ft) for speed work

[Lihu]

12 reps with a minute pause in between full swing reps with a couple less aggressive warmup reps. Stretching hamstrings. Working on slow movements through the transition. Tai Chi slow with weight shift incorporated into movement. Also keeping the lead wrist well pronated. Full coil backswing, lead arm straight getting past parallel. I have to focus on retaining the C-spine posture. Used a roller to work the upper back/shoulders, lats, glutes and calve muscles.

[bm85]

(13)

Too rainy/windy for the range, so no Mevo action today. Bummer

Decided to work on turning my body better in the back swing, and then explored a bit with deeper hands. I've been liking my wrist behavior and angles I'm getting, just not...a lot of other things.

Noticed a nasty slight shoulder tilt toward the target at address (lazy? maybe. bad? yes), and with my tendency for the hand path to go across the target line I was on a crash course with steepness, and potentially even lost balls.

[dbuck]

Day 47

10 minutes putting working on aim, setup and stroke.

I took a few driver swings. I am mainly working on speed. I have sufficient turn. My right leg straightens a little more than I'd like, but I have a decent amount of shoulder and hip turn. As suggested in LSW, I am experimenting with my backswing/downswing ratio, and also just trying to "swing my arms faster", coordinated with faster hip rotation.

[boogielicious]

Day 16- Mirror work at the gym. I got the Hanger Golf training aid in the mail yesterday and tried that out. It will be fun to hit balls with it. I can see the benefits. 

[b101]

16/2/18 - Played my final round of the half term at Swinley Forest. We made the bad decision to play from the tips, thinking that 6300 wasn't that long. Turns out, much of it is uphill, it plays every inch of that length and there are 5 par threes, all between 180 and 225 yards. Didn't drive the ball well meaning that I had a lot of 200 yard approaches, which are absolutely not my strength. Wedge game was decent, putted ok but not brilliantly, but it's so hard to score from those distances. So, tomorrow will be back to the swing rebuild...

[Patch]

Day 47 Feeling a bit under the weather, I am..

Worked on my pump, and step through drills this morning.

The pump drill being the one I use to not cast the club. The early release bugaboo. 

The step through drill I use for forward weight shift, which also helps moving the divot part of my swing in front of the ball.

In an earlier post in this thread, I mentioned putting these two drills into one motion. After a few days, it's looking better, but still a ways to go. 

 

[onthehunt526]

2/16/18:

It's day 322.

More work with the first move down drill again today. Working on, irons mostly. Just making sure my arms start the downswing and then the body.

[lastings]

Day 18:

2/16/18

Last night, I put my Arccos sensors on the clubs.  I was curious to see if there was any difference.   Took, My 7 iron, 4 iron and putter over to the hitting bay today and took about 20 swings with each, and then about 20 putts on the putting green.  

maybe a little different for the first few swings (just the sensation of it being there), but pretty quickly forgot all about it and was unnoticeable.  no difference at all on the putter.   

 

[JuanTheGolfer]

Day 78   Another long and productive day.   Spent 75 minutes on the putting green making 100 putts from both 3 and 6 feet -- which is continuing the 10,000 Putt Challenge!!   Worked on balance and timing of putter stroke.  Then spent 3 3/4 hours on the range.  It was a massively long session.  I did 24 drills from my GGGA workbook, and then hit 15 shots to a hole location of 110 yards, and 15 shots to a hole location of 51 yards.  In each case working on distance control and aim.   I will see if these last three days of hard work pay off in the morning when I play in a weekly 9-hole scramble.

Edited February 16, 2018 by JuanTheGolfer

[RickPro]

Day 15

was at the course early before i played my round and practiced more of my putting with breaks this time. I practiced my putting for about 40 minutes one handed on left hand 1st then right hand 2nd. very awkward feeling at first but starting to gain muscle memory for both hands working independently.  I am feeling more confident with my putting. When I played the round, everything feels new, but good at the same time. most of my puts were close tap in putts. I didn't sink any long putts, but I knocked a lot close for an easy 2nd putt.

[iacas]

Day 14, February 16, 2018 - Slow motion swings in my living room while watching TW hack it around the entire course. Took great care not to hit the overhead light.

[bm85]

(14)

Practiced pitching motion after work ~10 minutes. Nothing too specific mechanic wise, just trying to use the bounce more, seeing if I could strike 3 balls clean into the air.