"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge

[djake]

Day 36

My goal today was to get to the range and work on 135 to 200 yard shots.  All irons for me.  Wife 'honey do list got in the way.

So I grabbed an 8 iron and redid Day 3 and Day 4 drills from the Covid 30 day challenge.  It felt good to watch videos and do the drills hand in hand.0. 

Hopefully tomorrow I can get my wedge practice in and play 18

[Darkfrog]

Day 260

More work on priority piece with a 7-iron with half swings. Ended with some full swing shots. Did a bit of pitching and chipping technique practice into my net as well.

[Shindig]

Day 70.  Barely made it, but did a 5 minute routine.  Wall mock swing, 2 balls (with a few practice swings each), hit slowly, and then once more of the full routine.  Indoors, swings with a club were made on a mat. 

[Antneye]

Day 19

Got my work in early thanks to a busy day at work. Same routine but seem to have made a breakthrough. I will need time to see if it is real or an aberration. Picked up a feel at the beginning of the downswing that seems to have me on plane. I filmed it to see if the feel was real and it looked good. 

[bweiss711]

Day 26:  Full swings into a net with irons and driver.  Continue to focus on stance and posture with a steady head.  Stance and posture is getting easier and easier to get into.  Today, I added free and easy as a swing thought with the stead head.  Playing 27 holes this weekend.  Looking forward to seeing if I'm able to implement what i've worked on this week.

[Shindig]

Day 71.  After work (was only this morning for defined time commitment), I hit a few balls and did the wall drill (I'm trying to make that my default "I'm home and have five minutes" thing, even for days when I've already practiced or will practice more time later).  Then, I did speed sticks protocol 1 outside.  Got the green stick at the start to 121 and the red stick to 102.  Those are both personal bests for me I believe.  However, I couldn't get the green stick past 114 on the "swing as hard as you can" at the end, even with more than three attempts.  Wish I knew what I was doing right when I get a high number... 

[djake]

Day 38

Spent a solid 20 minutes on the putting green then I played 18.  Hitting the Driver better and better.  Just need the rest of the clubs to follow now

[iacas]

Day 244 - August 28, 2020

Stayed after some lessons and hit some pitch shots. I really need to get some time in a mirror tomorrow. Planning to go in before lessons tomorrow.

[DaHolla]

Let’s try this again. I’m getting the time in each day, just need to spend the 30 seconds and log it. 
 

Day 1 - Played 18, focus was on backswing hip turn. I played really well, hopefully I can build off this. 

[Darkfrog]

Day 261

Did some indoor putting, and some half swings hitting into my net working on priority piece. 

[bweiss711]

Day 27:  Played 9 holes this morning.  Also stayed after the round to practice 25+ foot putts.  My round went ok.  Driving was good, short game was improved, no major issues with putting.  The major problem today was, with the way the round played out, I only had 4 full swings with irons and I mishit all of them. I'll hit a couple balls into the net before my round tomorrow morning.  Hopefully some simple adjustment is all that is needed.

[iacas]

Day 245 - August 29, 2020

Well, I went downtown early to hit balls, and the first swing I made, my toes cried out in pain from an injury I suffered last night in soccer. Basically, I can't roll my toes on the trail foot upward (like the downswing/follow-through). I could probably get a stiffer soled shoe to help, but oh well. I practiced putting for a little bit, which I almost never do typically.

[Darkfrog]

Day 262

Played 18 in really thick fog that never cleared. Played a lot of partial shots with longer clubs (1-2 clubs longer than GPS distance) attempting to keep the ball flight lower and visible for longer, which worked out well for the most part. Thinking this might be a good approach for normal conditions. 

[Antneye]

Day 20

same routine but not as clean as yesterday. Staying with what I’m working on but I’ve never mentioned that I am also working on the palmor flexion at the same time. It’s getting easier and more ingrained. 

[DaHolla]

Day 2 - Spent some time filming my swing, there's a little bit of hip swap still. Going to work on that for the rest of the weekend before filming more swings for Evolvr.

[djake]

Day 39

Hit wedges at the range and then some putting at the practice green before playing 18.  My group told me after the round that I could drop 20 strokes off of my game if I only got my short game under control.  This will be my focus all week.

[Shindig]

Day 72.  My social group had an online game night, and I realized I hadn't done my 5 minutes practice yet today.  I took a break to do so.  The use of wall to adjust my backswing that I've been working on for a while now, then two balls' worth of slow swings, then repeat.  Indoors, off a mat, into the net (a real ball when hitting a ball).

The annoying thing was putting on shoes just for 5 minutes of practice.

[bweiss711]

Day 28:  Played literally the best 18 holes I've ever played.  Beat my previous best score of 89 with an 84.  Previous best 18 hole differential was 17.4, today was 14.6.  Driving was very good, approach was good enough, short game was better than its been, and I sunk a few putts.  I really don't think its any coincidence that this round comes on the day I hit 28 days of consecutive practice with focus on the priority piece from my swing thread and a few weeks after reading and understanding how to implement Lowest Score Wins.  Still lots of work ahead, still too many flat out mishits.  But I'm feeling good and having fun playing golf.  That's what its all about.