"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge

[WillieT]

Day 168 (17 Oct 24) - semi-monthly walking of nine holes today.  Went this morning after helping the wife with her students on a math project around assembly of a couple of storage shelf units (was a blast working with the kids).  Air was brisk but breezy (solid hurting wind going out, wee doggy helping wind coming back), course is fall pristine and not busy - played up as set of tees as I had 3w and 4h as the only long clubs, focus was on iron play.  Love these working on the swing, distance control sessions - that calls for focused course management.

[iacas]

Day 17 - 2024-10-17

I practiced for 20 minutes today while exaggerating the backswing and downswing stuff. Kept it short, hit the 6I about 120 yards.

[DaHolla]

Day 278 - Happy with the practice today. Arms up, good turn, shift weight, arms down, rotate. Then do it again, blended together. Even filmed some swings for my member swing post. 

[DeadMan]

Day 92: range session at lunch. Worked on driver a bit - needed to get the ball teed further forward. Filmed my swing as well. Then did a stack session. 

[DeadMan]

Day 93: putted on my mat for a bit while working. Making sure the handle is more raised at address, and then just making a smooth stroke.

[WillieT]

Day 169 (18 Oct 24) - Friday men's scramble - only 10 playing today so it was two threesomes and one foursome (older guys and chilly weather don't mix too well).  Anyway - solid day overall (won both par 3 closest to the pins - helps when you are the only one to hit the green on both holes) and was part of the winning team in terms of overall score.   Wound up winning enough to cover my scramble fee and cart fee with a $1 to the good.  Overall the round was solid - 8 of 14 fairways hit, 7 of 18 GIR (nice to have that kind of ball striking day), putting was a little off as I had 4 three putts (for a total of 36putts - a few strokes here or there and it would have been a sub-80 round!)  The greens were super slick (the greenskeepers are shooting for rolling on glass...that was from the mouth of one of them), which means if you were putting downhill and missed the cup you may be looking at an even longer uphill come backer (had a couple myself).  Really getting comfortable with the short irons and wedge play.  The latter was super solid as I had a number of up and downs for par that were less than 5' for the putt.  A good day of golf. 

[iacas]

Day 18 - 2024-10-18

Bunch of yard work, so I stayed home and did mirror work.

[DaHolla]

Day 279 - Too many swings this week, elbow is feeling it. Today was just slow backswings making sure I get a full turn, then working on arms down instead of around. 

[WillieT]

Day 170 (19 Oct 24) - Left foot really hurting in the ball area (this is the rebuilt area of my foot from the transmet amputation from the 2016 motorcycle wreck) as too much time on it causes bruising and painful steps.  Wanted to get some work in so I hit a few chippy 7i’s into the net (focused on setup and keeping a putting type swing) - really takes torque off the left foot.  Finished up with the 54 using the same technique. Again working to keep a putting motion in these short chips/pitches. 

[iacas]

Day 19 - 2024-10-19

Hit balls for about 25 minutes afterward. A shank was not great for the thumb, but I moved it to the front side of the grip just to finish up hitting without impacting it much.

[Clemsonfan]

Day 1: 10/19

Range work, with focus on backswing. Playing tomorrow for the first time since Hurricane Helene. Only 9, non-consecutive holes open.

[DaHolla]

Day 280 - Played in a scramble today. Driver was back, but approach shots were not good. A lot to work on before Hawaii…mostly need to rehab my left elbow.