"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge

[DrMJG]

Day 408

Early morning rise to simply go through the bag, 6 shots each club.

With the exception of the 3h and 50º, I was quite happy.  Most were fairly on line, with more than acceptable loft and acceptable distance.

The 3h was the exception in that 2 of the 6 were hit thin. I did have really nice shot for the last 3 so I finished on a happy note.

The 50º was great in distance and loft, but I still tend to hit it too much to the left.  Even allowing for this was not really what I wanted.  Perhaps I need to spend 5 days isolating this club as I did with the 6i.

Lined up a round for tomorrow, will see how much I am ready to go at 6:20 AM.

Edited August 26, 2019 by DrMJG

[Craigers]

Day 12

8/25/19

Pitched to a target at 50 yards with my SW and tried to get within 5 club lengths of it.

8/25 landed within 5 club lengths

[OB-OG]

Day 6:

worked on putting stroke. Had a busy day but carved out time for a daily 5. Update from yesterday, playing from the forward tees I shaved 6 strokes off my average and have some new things to work on. 

[Shindig]

Day 113.  Various short game shots with the 58 degree I'm borrowing.  Chipping with a putting motion, quarter shots, half shots.  Some foam, some real balls, all off a mat, indoors, and into the net. 

[boogielicious]

Day 316, August 26

Playing a scramble today with wife and a couple of friends.

[DrMJG]

Day 409

Practice before the round:

Physical warm-ups did my usual including 10 swings of the Orange Whip®

25 or so warm up whacks!

Driver felt good, as did the under practiced 3h. 6i retained much f the new found strength. 7i and wedges were "ok"

[Shindig]

Day 114.  Twenty minutes of putting this morning, mostly inside 10', a few 12' and a few 30' though.  Putts were on the practice green of a course near my new job (still exploring golf in the area).  

[OB-OG]

Day 7: 

ladder drills putting. 3’ 6’ 9’ 12’ 15’ 

three balls must have at least 2/3 to advance completed 5x

[Craigers]

Day 13

8/26/19

Mirror work looking at my full swing from the front and side.

Focused on my head position and following all the way through the weight shift.

[bwdial]

Day 8

Another indoor night session with the weighted club.  Really working on getting into the proper positions, as well as releasing the club.  When I swung with my regular club afterward, it really felt effortless.

[DeadMan]

Day 21: Full swing mirror work today. Working on a little shift off the ball from A1 and soft wrists in transition. Definitely looking better. Filming tomorrow to see how it looks on video.

[boogielicious]

Day 317, August 27

Mirror work at the gym. Neck has been a little stiff the last week, so I took it light today after yesterday’s round.

[bwdial]

Day 9

Got home too late to go out back and hit balls, so I worked on my rhythm with my weighted club for about ten minutes.  I have a gifted endorsement class tomorrow night until 9:00 PM, so I probably will have to do the same tomorrow nights as well.  Really want to hit some balls.

Edited August 28, 2019 by bwdial

[DrMJG]

Day 410

Based on yesterday's finding every sand trap I could, today I spent a quick 40 minutes at the sand trap works with both my 56º and 60º wedges.  I played from soft shallow sand to up tight with deep sand near a lip that guards the tree.  Took about 25 sand shots. I mainly wanted to see which wedge when.  Got a lot of good data.  Tomorrow will be more of the same to improve my knowledge for traps.  

I think I could have readily saved quite a few shots yesterday.  I will be playing that course again soon.  I have to be honest, I have not spent enough tie on this aspect of my game!.

 

[DeadMan]

Day 22: Went to the range. Spent about 40 minutes working on my long game. Checking feels on video. Looks pretty good. Filmed the clubface challenge (video to come tomorrow). Then went and hit a couple of sand shots, because I really struggled with those this past weekend. Then spent about 40 minutes working on putting. Mostly lag putting, but ended with some work on short putts.

[OB-OG]

Day 8: 

worked on putting. Ladder drills again 5x through. 

[Shindig]

I was going to hit the range, but my dinner partner asked me if we wanted to go sooner, so I did.  But I did have time afterward for some putting practice:

Day 115.  Did my modified around the world at 3', only missed one (10:00), and made it on second try (I mark the ones I miss and come back, counting how many total attempts to make one from each of 12 stations).  I then tried 6' and it took me 30.   I then tried to get down in two from 30' out a total of eight times, making all, although a few required me to make 6' putts... so I eventually made it.

Hopefully tomorrow's round SLP is better than the 25 handicap level (last round wasn't).  Hoping to bring SLP down to closer to my handicap level, as my other parts of my game tend to hang out at or around that spot. 

[DrMJG]

Day 411

Again, up early to avoid the full on heat. 

I went to a course today which has a great practice green and a practice sand trap.

I started out with 15 putts toward  the same hole from 2', 5', and  10'

2' were good even with a very slight right handed break.  All 5 were well dropped into the gopher hole.

5' were a little more iffy as the break from the right side came a bit more into play.  Despite getting the five in, the first two were iffy when it came to finding the proper speed.  One slowly rolled around while the second one was hit a tad too hard and dropped in a bit by luck,  Adjustments were made and the other three were fine.

Only 2 of the 10' dropped in.  Again, speed messed up the approach to the break and the first two were way hit too fast. Third was good and I was happy as speed seemed solid throughout. #4 stopped 2" short, which I would have felt good about in a round, but in this game was a miss. The last one was what I would like all longer putts to be.

I took 10 shots out of the trap, only working with the 54º to get some mastery of both lofting and aim.  While this is still a real work in progress, my use of vulgarities in the many languages I know was not too bad.