"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge

[MrLeek]

Day 56: May 22

Back to the range. Generally consistent with fairway wood: I wanted to have a session of improving what’s “normal” for me…and the results were rather good. Lost my way a little bit in the middle of the session (note to self: you’ve never cracked this silly game, so never think that you have), but knuckled down and rectified things somewhat. Hybrid performance was completely fine; I’ve got a dumb mental block about using a hybrid during a round, but I’ll sort it eventually.

Future me needs to organise a trackman session to collate data on my fairway wood performance: a neutral grip; a slightly stronger grip; having the “feel” of the club coming from the inside (I thought I was doing this today, but I don’t know if that’s a sign of my golfing maturity or just wishful thinking). TLDR: Really understand what’s happening during that part of my game.

Footnote: I’m slowly introducing my driver into these practices….and it’s almost good enough for me to start trusting it. Encouraging signs!

[saevel25]

Day 1: May 22nd. 

Going to see if I can get to 30 days in a row. 

Went to the range, had a terrible range session. My headspace just degraded way to fast. Maybe it was because of Sunday, but I was getting flustered way too fast. On the drive back home, I decided to do 10 sets of 10 reps each (so, 100 total) of backswings working on keeping things short. I needed to do something that I could complete and feel positive about it. So I just took hitting that stupid little ball out of the equation. 

[klineka]

Day 28 - The Stack swings and some dry reps afterwards working on my priority piece.

[Dwalk2088]

Day 2: dry swings due to being at work. Keeping the lead arm a bit straighter with earlier wrist hinge. Then make sure my trail hip goes back and around a bit. 

[WillieT]

Day 86 (22 May 23) - Stayed with the swing tempo drill, focusing on getting weight shift onto the lead foot.  

[Clemsonfan]

Day 60: 5/22/23

Wright balance exercises followed by chipping and putting practice. Finished the session with slow motion swings.

[iacas]

Day 203, May 22, 2023

Spent some time today doing the stuff I've been doing. Slower. Faster at the end just to see.

[Darkfrog]

Day 3:

Indoor putting.

[saevel25]

Day 2

Did hip turn and weight shift practice without a club.

Put right foot against a wall. Shifted right and turned without touching the wall. Kept hit turn compact. Kept shoulder turn compact to where my eyes did not get shifted off a point on the ground.

Did reps of backswing turn. Add reps of weight shift left, loading lead leg. Add reps of unloading left leg. Add reps blending all together. 

[boogielicious]

Day 16. Practiced on and off for about 8 hours today with Erik and Bill doing a GEARS session at Golf Evolution, then a followup practice for the priority pieces from that session in the morning. Then went to Whispering Woods in the afternoon and worked for about 2 hours on pitching methods from various lies and sand shots. Finished at the range and worked for about an hour on the full swing pieces. 

Had pierogis for dinner. 😀 
 

 

[iacas]

Day 204, May 23, 2023

Good day at the course today. Helped some guys with the short game (so, got to hit a few shots myself), then hit probably 50 to 60 balls with 7I, 9I, hybrid… and a few with a 3I… most of them slow, working on my stuff.

[klineka]

Day 29 - A couple dry swings focusing on priority piece and then some indoor putting. Short putts feel much better when I have the feeling of bringing the club inside on the way back.

[WillieT]

Day 87 (23 May23) - Played in the church men’s group 9-hole scramble .  Drives and approaches were much better - tentative on the greens (they were rolling fast) - overall, seeing better distances on the drives and approach shots…daily drill on setup, tempo, etc paying…

[Clemsonfan]

Day 61: 5/23/23

Chipping and putting practice tonight. Brief session tonight.

[DeadMan]

Day 34: Mirror work today. Worked on a feel for getting my collarbone to go down in the downswing. I think I may have landed on something - feeling like my lead elbow stays super straight. 

[Darkfrog]

Day 4:

Worked on main priority piece, which is getting arm and torso motion on downswing in better sync. My shoulders tend to start rotating before hands drop so working with a feel of hands moving down first and then turn. Lots of rehearsals between swings. Only hit 10 balls. 

[MrLeek]

Day 57: May 23

Played 18 holes. After plenty of range practice with good results from fairway woods, I went into that round full of confidence. But after the first couple of holes (which had terrific tee shots), I got stuck in a rut of topped tee shot -> tee ball higher -> topped tee shot….which got very frustrating very quickly. 
Part fixed the problem by teeing the ball up lower/correctly, but it was still in my head. Ended up using my driver to finish the round after encouragement from my playing partners…and proceeded to hit four great drives.

Lessons learnt:  trust what I’m doing and don’t lose heart. If I’ve been scoring well (and I had been in that round), use that to regain confidence. If I haven’t, then I’ve used up my bad shots and I’m about to hit a hot streak, so play with confidence.

[iacas]

Day 205, May 24, 2023

Played 18 holes at Lake View CC. Hit a few good ones. Hit some that serve as a kick in the pants. 😉