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Day 88: Same thing as yesterday. Worked on my right hand only drill, getting arm closer to my hip on the downswing and hips more open at impact.

-- Daniel

In my bag: :callaway: Paradym :callaway: Epic Flash 3.5W (16 degrees)

:callaway: Rogue Pro 3-PW :edel: SMS Wedges - V-Grind (48, 54, 58):edel: Putter

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Welcome to the "5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge for 2018! Please read as the rules have changed! Yes, for all of 2018! I'm changing it up. Rather than do this monthly, we're going to hav

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3/31/18: Day 365: The post you've all been waiting for.  I did some more work with my A4 to A5 drills. I know it seems like it's monotonous and stupid... But yesterday after I posted I

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Well I'm at 276 consecutive days. 1/1/18: I did my path drill indoors today. For those of you who don't know what this is, it involves 2 to 4 water or soda bottles a club and a foam ball. I

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Day 166

Worked on posture and pre-shot routine again today. Felt during setup that my hands were further away from my body and my arms weren’t hanging as vertical, more diagonal aligned with the shaft, compared to the video clips from my last lesson (confirmed in mirror). So polished this up a bit and hit a few balls. Skipped superspeed today, early morning round tomorrow and don’t want to feel any muscle tightness. 

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Day 52 - borrowing someone’s Mevo to help me learn new carry distances for new clubs, it also helps to reinforce compression of the ball as I can clearly see the difference in the number when I do a better job of that.  The downside is that I found myself trying to “go after it” more than I normally would, no doubt driven subconsciously by my desire to see bigger numbers.
 

Doing all of this I continued to work on Right elbow action in backswing as I bring club up to A3-4.

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Day 146 - May 23, 2020

Full swing work again. This is going to be almost everything that I do.

Played 18. Still need to get in a good range or indoor session. Feel was better today, but still hit some WEIRD shots.

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Day 89: worked on my right hand only drill. Added the feels to some full swing work. Seemed to be pretty solid. 

-- Daniel

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:callaway: Rogue Pro 3-PW :edel: SMS Wedges - V-Grind (48, 54, 58):edel: Putter

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Day 167

Played 18 today and scored a personal best 80. Recent focus on pre-shot routine and posture seemed to pay off. On course I focused on keeping the same pre-shot routine for every shot, and the only swing thought I had was posture at address, and just let the swing happen. One of the better ballstriking rounds I’ve had. 

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Day 53 - the ol’ wall drill. Yesterday with the Mevo “watching,” I was really “going after it” trying to get my club distances and I noticed a lot of extra forward weight shift which was moving my head, resulting in hitting it both thin and fat. So, today I broke out the wall drill...after dating her for 4-6 months a year or so ago,  it was nice seeing her again.

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Day 147 - May 24, 2020

Full swing work again. This is going to be almost everything that I do.

Downtown. Five holes. Outdoor range session. I’m close. Smoke and mirrors the last few times out.

 

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Day 90: Still the one armed drilled. Did some fuller swings as well. Working on getting the hips open and my right elbow and wrist more bent at impact.

-- Daniel

In my bag: :callaway: Paradym :callaway: Epic Flash 3.5W (16 degrees)

:callaway: Rogue Pro 3-PW :edel: SMS Wedges - V-Grind (48, 54, 58):edel: Putter

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Day 168

Just a bit of indoor putting stuff in the morning, and a few balls off the mat after dinner, focusing on posture at address. 

-Peter

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Day 86 - worked on pitches and chips today for about 20 minutes.

Scott

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Day 148 - May 25, 2020

Full swing work again. This is going to be almost everything that I do.

An interesting day. 9am for a lesson. 10:10 kinda hit some balls around the front nine. 11:45 - hit the range for 45 minutes, hitting about 50 balls but literally one (a driver near the end) beyond what felt like 1/3 of a swing (which was undoubtedly 2/3 of a swing).

All hit pretty well. I see the other side of this tunnel.

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Day 1 - May 25, 2020 (1/1)

Played a round today, plus 10 minutes of putting practice on the Puttist.

- John

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Day 54 - steady head work with 8i, while working on PP

Driver: :callaway: Rogue ST  /  Woods: :tmade: Stealth 5W / Hybrid: :tmade: Stealth 25* / Irons: :ping: i500’s /  Wedges: :edel: 54*, 58*; Putter: :scotty_cameron: Futura 5  Ball: image.png Vero X1

 

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