"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge

[WillieT]

Day 48 (17 Jun 25) - Into the net work today with the 5i - focus remains on the setup and proper weight shift.  Was not a perfect session as several were very heavy along with a couple of thin boys.  Finished up the day with a few pitches with the 52 (last set of 5 hitting to about 40 yds had 4 of the 5 in a 5’ circle (now if I could just do that on the course) - the errant one was a total mishit).  

[Grizvok]

Day 3 - mirror swings/drills after my workout. Two seemingly good feels for me: feel like as the club reaches the top the weight of it/momentum of it pointing left initiates my "fall" into the lead side. Helps initiate the re-centering and some of the pressure shift. The second feel is like: as soon as the re-centering is over, begin to lighten the trail foot by feeling like my right knee in the beginning of the downswing essentially replaces where my left knee was at the top. This helps halt my sometimes ludicrous slide and greatly helps me get open.

[DeadMan]

Day 332: worked on my grip while watching pasta boil. Then did some mirror work later at night.

[wetzel1592]

Day 4: Same as yesterday working on my over the top tendency. Also added in some wedge feels. 

[Grizvok]

Day 4 - incredibly slow mirror work. Taking the drill from yesterday "feel like as the club reaches the top the weight of it/momentum of it pointing left initiates my "fall" into the lead side" and just making that fall feel earlier. I'd also say I completely lack a transition in the golf swing. I need to find a fraction of a second near the top to do some important stuff. Little bit of tour pro slow mo iron study and getting used to some features of Kinovea to start getting a bit more analytical.

[WillieT]

Day 49 (18 Jun 25) -  Mid week round with my good friends.  It was a so-so round scoring wise as the ball was somewhat errant off the tee.  It did allow for work on course management to make the most of recovery opportunities.  

[iacas]

Day 261 - 2025-06-18

Went downtown two hours before lessons and worked for about 90 minutes of it with some supervision. Good session. Pleased with how simple things feel.

[DeadMan]

Day 333: travel day - 1.5 hour drive took 3.5 - but squeezed in some putting bead work with the yardstick drill. 

Edited June 19 by DeadMan

[Grizvok]

Day 5 - extremely long range practice session. Probably one of my best practice sessions ever. Doing things in slow motion is like 5x'ing the effectiveness of the practice. Also, I need these same "falling into lead leg" feels on my wedges. And guess what? Practicing this feel on shorter wedges is ALSO EASIER AND MORE EFFECTIVE. Combining much slower than full speed practice with shorter (50-90 yard) shot practice was really good. Change the picture on these shorter shots first.

Feel like I'm keeping my arms as straight as possible on the backswing while hinging my wrists earlier is an incredible feel. I feel like this is doing stuff to my sequencing somehow? Much less rushed at the top because hinging was done at a reasonable time? One note someone made on my swing thread before I went on a hiatus was regarding this so I played around with it. 

Clubs that don't require as much weight/pressure shift feel fantastic (driver/3-wood/hybrid), but that's almost always been the case.

Edited June 19 by Grizvok

[WillieT]

Day 50 (19 Jun 25) - Hit a few balls in the backyard this morning using the PW at varied distances. Worked on the pre-shot setup identifying the target start line thru the ball.  

[DeadMan]

Day 334: just had time for some slow swings in the hotel room. Working on the wrist feel. 

[iacas]

Day 262 - 2025-06-19

Worked for two hours downtown after plugging the garage door back in. 🙂 

[wetzel1592]

Day 5: Range session with 1/2 to 3/4 swing drills

[iacas]

Day 263 - 2025-06-20

Worked on the swing before my 9:00 from Buffalo showed up today.

[Grizvok]

Day 6 - mirror swings while falling into lead leg feels. Some newer drills and exercises to help lower/upper body disassociation. I kind of want to build a super simple training aid I saw on Athletic Motion Golf which was basically a balance board (but very subtle drops on either side) to drive this home. *Click* the board backward around P2 and then *click* the board forward near (but before) P4.

Edited June 21 by Grizvok

[wetzel1592]

Day 6: Played 18. 80 with a couple 3 putts. Missed way too many greens. 

[WillieT]

Day 51 (20 Jun 25) - Friday men’s group shootout….the old adage of “those who live by the sword, will die by the same” was lived out today as a variant  “those who scramble for par will die by the same scrambling”.  Struggled with the green side game today - up and downs were hard to come by despite the course playing well.  Will be focused on this area in coming drill sessions.  

[DeadMan]

Day 335: range session before a round of golf tomorrow. Seeing where the ball is going. Hitting it solid, and hitting a pull draw. I can play it, but also found a decent feel to lessen it. We’ll see what happens tomorrow.