"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge

[boogielicious]

Day 542: played 18 this morning. Brutally cold and windy start and 60 an little wind at the finish. That’s spring here in New England. Played okay. Swing got a little flat during the round. Once I figured that out, things got better. Birdied 18 and actually had an eagle putt. First time on that Par 5 green in two in a long time.

[Bob M]

Day 166 - Did the 5SK #3 "Flat Left Wrist - 2 ball" drill with a 7 iron and Almostgolf balls in the yard today. I hit about a dozen balls over the course of about 15 minutes taking practice swings between each ball and checking for position. 

[WillieT]

Day 123 (11 Apr 22) - got in the yard w/PW and midday sunshine.  Used my shadow to focus on staying weight forward and not rocking back while pitching.  After about a half hour took a break and moved to the 54 wedge and more swings again working on finishing weight forward.  

[DoubleAce]

Day 2

As hard as it is to limit myself to light practice, gonna give it another day or two for my back to rest. Around 30 minutes of practice so far today. Big benefit of working from home is it's easy to get 5 minutes of practice here and there. Again with flighting wedges. This time with more focus on specific distance targets.

Then moved my stance mat and hitting strip out of the way so I could hit some putts. The carpet I have in my office runs around 13.5-14 on the stimp. A tad bit faster than my home course, but rolls very similarly.

Patiently waiting on a new putter grip to arrive that I'm eager to try. Specifically the Kotahi palms up grip. Used to be lights out putting. Then someone pointed out that I kind of looped in the backstroke. Can't remember who, but damn them, lol. Since then I get "yippy". Putt pretty well with a claw grip. I just have a hard time accepting I can't put traditionally.  Like the idea of the Kotahi grip and think it may work to quiet my hands a bit. 

[Darkfrog]

Day 87:

Hit balls with 7-iron today. While continuing to reinforce fingery grip and open face backswing feel, today's main focus was rhythm, especially from end of backswing into transition, since I feel like I often get out of sync.

[iacas]

Day 162, April 11, 2022

Hit some putts in the hotel room after watching the kiddo play in her college team event.

 

 

[woodzie264]

Day 33 - more steady head & low point control work.  Continued to rehearse pre-shot routine, reviewed grip, set up and stance for consistency. 

 

[Shindig]

Day 36.  Got home from work late (as is habit on Mon/Wed for a while), chipped slowly (off a mat, into a net, real balls) for five minutes with a 54. 

[Dornenglanz]

Day 2: Lesson; Worked on setup, and right elbow on downswing.  Main focus for the next two weeks is better balance and weight distribution at setup, and keeping right elbow inside body on downswing.  Exercises based on feeling a "reverse loop" - start steep and then shallow, rather than my current habit which is the opposite.

[Bob M]

Day 167 - Rain today; worked inside on developing consistent rhythm with various length finesse wedge swings using the "1-and-2" drill. Then hit some putts. 

[Dornenglanz]

Day 3: Swings with plane station, steeper backswing, shallower down swing; same feel without; one handed swings with wedge.

[boogielicious]

Day 543: Only had time to work on chipping and pitching today for about 15 minutes.

[WillieT]

Day 124 (12 Apr) - after yard work this am, did a little pitch and putt work in the back yard.  Grabbed the 50 and 58 along with the putter. Goal - pitch (can go anywhere from a couple of paces to 25yds) to one of the holes I’ve set up, putted out (5’ max as the yard is not a putting green level of grass).  Still, made for good work on accuracy and dealing with putts under less than ideal conditions.  

[Shindig]

Day 37.  Got home, decided to work on half shots with my wedges.  As before, slow swings and I made generally good contact.  

[DoubleAce]

Day 3

Feel like my updates will be a little boring for now. As I just hit more wedges today for another 30 minutes. Worked on 50 to 100 yard swings. Good news is all this wedge practice will likely pay off. Striking it really well.

Just for some perspective, I keep 10 balls in my hitting area. Helps me to track how many swing I'm getting in each day. Set up the mat and net about 5-6 weeks ago. And this was a brand new ball when I started. I know people have said Vice covers don't hold up well. Can confirm that's the case, lol.

Plan to play the Maxfli Tour X this year as my primary ball. Scored 4 dozen for under $100 a few weeks ago. Should be set for a while. 

[Darkfrog]

Day 88:

Rested and just did some indoor putting

[Bob M]

Day 168 - Went to the range and worked on the following:

1) Wedge shots of <= 30 yards with my 54* and 58*. Practiced hitting the basic shot (I'm trying for a middle road between a chip and pitch shot), then high and low with both clubs, then hit a few ultra high shots with the 58*, mostly to see if I could. In addition to contact quality, I focused on the amount of energy required to cover the same carry distance with each trajectory.

2) Approach wedges shots with my 54*, 49* and 44* wedges using a flighted swing, focusing on distances (the range has distance markers in relatively small increments covering 30 to 100 yards).

3) Driver: worked on quality of contact by powering the face of my driver (with spray-on foot spray) then hit 5 shots; contact all around the sweet spot. Reset the driver to the "D" (draw) setting from the "N" setting, re-powdered the face, and hit 5 more shots. Interestingly (to me at least) my contact was significantly better (all on the sweet spot) when I changed to the "D" setting. Probably some learning involved too, but I really liked the ball flight and will be leaving it on "D" for the time being. 

Edited April 13, 2022 by Bob M

[cdh79]

day 38: took a break yesterday, and spent today almost 3 hours on the range.. about 2 1/2 of which with my pro in a group lesson and we went through putting techniques and green-reading today