"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge

[iacas]

Day 560 - July 10, 2021

A few hours downtown today working on the same things. Was good, particularly after a rough bout with a 9I. Reinforced the right things.

[WillieT]

Day 14 (10 Jul 21) - Full swings with 9i, no hitting balls, while cooking on the grill. Focused on finishing with weight over lead foot and not trail.

[Bob M]

Day 96 (7/11/21) - 9 to 3 swings using an 8-iron and noodle station. Focused on position of the club, maintaining a smooth tempo through the pivot and the direction of my divot. This will be my practice focus for this week. 

[Shindig]

Day 137.  Earlier this morning, I spent 15 minutes hitting about as many full swing shots with a 6-iron, indoors, off a mat, into a net.  As before, my focus was on the shoulder turn and backswing limit I've been working on for most of the past month. 

[WillieT]

Day 15 (11 Jul 21) - Full swings with 7i and 3w using hard foam balls.  Worked on tempo (not trying to make my arms swing harder but to let the coil unwind so to speak) and making sure to finish on lead foot (man that is not easy w/no toes on the left foot - but getting more consistent on that finish).  Ball flight (for what it is with limited flight balls) was consistently where I was looking to have them go with a few slicing strays.    

[boogielicious]

Day 261: Easy day with some chipping in the yard.

[iacas]

Day 561 - July 11, 2021

30 minutes downtown. 9I mostly, a bit slower than other days, but focusing on the transition feel.

[onthehunt526]

Day 47, July 11, 2021

Slow putting strokes today after work, mostly used the ruler drill to try to keep the putts starting on line.

[boogielicious]

Day 262: Range work today in the mist. Worked on slow, long backswing from wedges to driver. I’m playing the next couple of days and hope to keep this going. I am still setting up with the face open to my foot line and pointing slightly right of target with feet left of target. Contact was good and flight was primarily push slight draws.

Moved onto short game with chips and pitches in the practice area. Also did some fringe lies and tried a hybrid or bladed wedge for putts. Finished with putting. Used my rhythm app at first to get that down, then putt one all around the green to try and two putt. The place was empty due to the weather.

[Darkfrog]

Day 19:

Played a morning 9 after a day off yesterday (need to check and see if this kills my practice streak). I was the first one off so I decided to play from the tips, about 3400 yards. Focused on recentering/flow in my pre-shot rehearsals. I was playing pretty well (+3) until carding an 8 on the final hole.

[Shindig]

Day 138.  Continued long game practice with my 6-iron at my indoor practice room;  I've already done 15 minutes, I'm sure I'll do more.  

[Bob M]

Day 97 (7/12/21) - Putting practice on my PuttOut mat. Did PuttOut challenge then worked on putting down one of the lines on the mat. 

[onthehunt526]

Day 48- July 12, 2021

Made some swings with a 7-iron this morning focusing on my balance and turn.

[iacas]

Day 562 - July 12, 2021

Almost an hour downtown between lessons. Ramping up the speed, transition, downswing. Put some video in my Member Swing topic.

[WillieT]

Day 16 (12 Jul 21) - Pitches w/the 54* wedge today choosing to do the up and over the tulip tree in the backyard.  Finished up w/chipping w/the 4h.  

[Darkfrog]

Day 20:

Played another morning 9, probably last round on vacation. Swing thought was recentering/flow. Played pretty well. Had a chip-in birdie after airmailing a partial wedge approach by about 15 yards. Also birdied the 9th hole after approach to about 6 feet.

[Shindig]

Day 139.  Some introspection has resulted in my realizing it isn't just before a tournament that I should over-emphasize short game / putting, but rather in normal practice until they aren't glaring weaknesses.

I did the "25+ foot putts" drill from LSW:  coins on the ground 20" and 28" from where the ball is, on both sides, and practice pendulum back to one, forward to the other.  The drill also calls for one at 36", but I didn't do that one (28" arc felt weird enough as is... which might affect why I have poor distance control on very long putts).

I also reviewed grip fundamentals because I haven't since April 2020 and I am going to do the Covid-19 30 day drills over the next 30+ days (I'm not sure I can do one-a-day as was the original intent, but I am going to be doing them finally), and it was in doing those early ones last year that led to the realization my grip had problems.  So I did the day one drill. 

[boogielicious]

Day 263: Played solo this morning walking 18. I played 11 and 12 twice after catching a twosome. Focused mainly on slowing down the backswing again. Hit a few balls at the range with this feel. Had some improvement, but still need to work more on this. Finally parred 18 from the blues.

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