"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge

[Bob M]

Day 6 (8/12/21) - Practiced chipping to a spot in the yard today, about 15 minutes. 

I am still nursing a painful tennis elbow, so practice and playing are limited; 9-hole league tomorrow night.

[WillieT]

Day 47 (12 Aug 21) - Played 18 again today with the grandson in tow.  Worked on tempo as I found yesterday I was getting real sloppy late in the round.  Worked on getting a solid weight forward finish.  

[Darkfrog]

Day 12:

Full swing work on downswing priority piece. 

[onthehunt526]

Day 79, August 12, 2021:

My taller feeling setup and shorter swing while listening to Side 1 of Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd. Trying to get the feeling that my head is looser but steady and my swing is low and inside

[boogielicious]

Day 291: Rangework today focused on my priority pieces especially the backswing. Simulated tee shots for a few of the holes I play. Finished with SuperSpeed training, blue stick only. Hit 103 with the blue and 101 with the driver. Sets were very consistent too. The Blue Only Protocol has 2-3 minute rest between sets, which I think helps.

[Bob M]

Day 7 (8/13/21) - 9 hole league tonight. Shot another 47 in an up and down round which included a birdie, a par and two triples. It didn't help that the heat index was over 100*.  Need to work on approach shots, particularly with wedges. 

[WillieT]

Day 48 (13 Aug 21) - mirror work today, focusing on should rotation.  Used a 7i w/crossed arms, moving from centered to full backswing (getting the left shoulder over the right leg) through the downswing to finish with the right shoulder over the left leg.  

[Darkfrog]

Day 13:

Did some backswing practice, working on finding a feel/physical trigger for the end of the backswing, because I frequently rush my backswing and don't turn enough. Then did some rehearsals for my downswing priority piece (lesson in 1.5 weeks to see how I am progressing on this). Finished up with some COVID-19 day 6 and 7 drills.

[onthehunt526]

Day 80, August 13, 2021:

Side 2 of Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd. 
 

Played 18 Holes today in 2 hrs and 35 minutes. Would have been right around 2 hours but it started pouring after my second shot at the 15th.

I, then, hit a shag bag full of balls with a 9, 7, 5i and 4h with my taller feeling setup. Why the hell didn’t you guys tell me that my 5i would CARRY 200-210 yards with no roll just by setting up taller?

[Shindig]

Day 169.  Today was day one of my club championship.  I shot a 79, good for a five stroke lead on my flight, at least in gross standings.  I also lowered my ringer score at my home course by 4, making par at #7 (hadn't done yet this year) and birdies on holes 3, 6, and 18.  On 18, I got up and down from 45 yards out for birdie to break 80, although admittedly, I didn't know just how well I was playing at the time. 

[boogielicious]

Day 292: Bit of a rest day today. Did some backswing work for about 10 minutes. 

[WillieT]

Day 49 (14 Aug 21) - Birthday treat today with a trip to the driving range near our beach place.  Using rented driver (no-name and weighed a ton, traded for a bent shaft 3w) and a Mizuno MP 54 7i.  Worked on shot placement - better success with the 7i, one sweet club, as opposed to the long clubs. Warmed up using split grip to get the turn happening.  Settling in, I was able place the ball pretty much where I wanted.  Using the bend head 3w I could still rattle off some decent swings.  

[Darkfrog]

Day 14:

Full swing - a bit more work on backswing, and then switched focus to downswing priority piece.

Short game - more COVID-19 day 6 and 7 drills.

Putting - worked on bead for just a few minutes inside with yardstick drill.

[Shindig]

Day 170.  Day two of club championship.   I didn't play as well as yesterday, but despite two lost balls I hung in there.  I "only" hit seven GIRs:  holes 4 and 7, and then the last five holes.  No birdies today.  Two off the lead going into the last round which is tomorrow. 

[onthehunt526]

Day 81, August 14, 2021:

Cont’d work on my taller set-up shorter backswing type stuff today. Mostly was in bed sick though. So like 11 minutes of practice today.

[Darkfrog]

Day 15:

Played 18 this morning. After only sleeping about 2 hours figured it was going to be a shit show.

It was for the front 9, but found an exaggerated backswing feel for the back 9, and ended up scoring okay.

[WillieT]

Day 50 (15 Aug 21) - More of the same backswing/down swing drills from yesterday (using Danny Maude's drill from his YouTube page (link below).  Working on coming through, non-panicked, to finish weight forward and not falling out the swing.   

  

 

 

[boogielicious]

Day 293: Worked on my priority pieces for about 30 minutes with 6 iron and driver.