"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge

[Big Lex]

Day 35 (8/29/22): Today I worked on shots up to arm parallel, just rehearsing getting to this position, pumping a few times, and rotating and uncocking through impact. I tried to match my rotation with the arm swinging down and wrist uncocking, just trying for solid contact. Any swing longer than this and I couldn't sequence and get solid contact, so I just stuck with these limited swings. Inside practice...real balls for the limited swings; I tried longer swings with foam balls only, just a couple. 

 

 

[ChetlovesMer]

Day 43: 8/30/2022

I had a really great practice session today. Worked on my priority pieces with a 6 iron first, then with a 9 iron, then with my longest hybrid, and then with the driver. Obviously, it wasn't perfect. But it was really starting to feel good and I like the results I was getting. 

Next step: Get some video and send it to Yoda. 

[WillieT]

Day 77 (30 Aug 22) - Continued work on the grip position today - it is definitely different and is making me be deliberate in how I set the lead and trail hands. Did make some swings, however they were limited as my rotation has been limited by arthritis acting up in the the hips. 

[Bob M]

Day 305 - Practiced at NK this morning:

Range: Since it is clear from my swing video that my swing is too upper body driven, I did a small bucket of 9 to 3 swings with 7i and Driver focusing on impact position today (very much like the Hips Preset drill). 

Practice green: Practiced speed control putting 5 balls into a 2' x 2' square from 5 and 10 paces, then putted 5 balls around a hole from 2' to 6'. Chipped 10 balls using my stock chipping action to one hole, followed by 3 balls to 3 different holes, stock, low and high trajectories. 

[Shindig]

Day 177.  Same continuation as past few days;  2/3 tilt practice, 1/3 elbow practice, focusing on slow and with the grip too.  I know I sound like a broken mp3, but this is going to be a big change for me and is going to take work (as any change, of course, does). 

[Darkfrog]

Day 1:

Dang, keeping on top of this thread is hard. Worked a bunch on backswing with LVP camera today. Also hit balls with help from Mevo+.

[Big Lex]

Day 36 (8/30/22); Same theme unfortunately (or maybe fortunately)...1/2 to 3/4 swings, concentrating on contact, with rehearsals. I put the Hack Motion on at the end to collect some data on wrist position. My flexion/extension profile was consistent tonight, but I was still too variable with face angle, as forearm rotation varied too much. On 1/2 swings, it's easy to rotate through impact. As soon as the swing gets longer, I seem to rotate my body less through impact (or that's how it feels anyway), and the forearms roll over more as the torso "stalls." Again, that's a feel only, and I don't know if it's correct. Sometimes it feels like I have to "hold off" the hands through the hitting zone in order to avoid hooking it. 

[ChetlovesMer]

Day 44: 8/31/2022

Played 18 early this morning. Played mostly well.

Took 3 from the tee on the first hole. 😖 But otherwise drove the ball mostly well. Made an 8 on a par-5 in which I got in trouble and instead of just getting out of trouble decided to compound my trouble with an attempted hero shot. I got hot on the middle, hitting GIR's on 8, 9 and the first four holes on the back. 10-13. Put the drive on 14 into the lake... Oops.  Number 15 is a par five I reached in two with a six iron. Had a ten footer for eagle... missed it of course, but tap in birdies are nice. 

Ended up shooting an 86, going 45 and 41. 

[Bob M]

Day 306 - Busy day today...did impact fix and 9 to 3 swings with my 7i in the yard. 

[Shindig]

Day 178.  I was invited to play golf with some friends and did so.  I got there late (despite leaving early enough that I should have been there with time to warm up), still shot 73 for 16 holes (met my group when they were on the #2 green).  Result is posting an 83 (two par-4s, handicap numbers 7 and 1).  I hit some excellent shots.  My rehearsal swings today were all the same rehearsal pieces I have been doing, except I needed to do the full swing at speed.  I got some very good results, including some huge 4-wood shots.  I will get back to real practice shortly (probably will do some tonight). 

[iacas]

Day 303, August 31, 2022

Hit balls downtown while waiting on a next lesson after a cancellation.

[WillieT]

Day 78 (31 Aug 22) - Continued work on the grip today.  Hit a number of shots in the backyard (kept the distances under 30 yds) working thru the wedge suite (hitting the Eye2’s). 

21 hours ago, Darkfrog said:

Day 1:

Dang, keeping on top of this thread is hard. 

Yup - that is what make this both fun and a challenge!  I think I am on my third time of starting over. 

[Big Lex]

Day 37 (8/31/22): Today I did one-arm drills. I was feeling really odd over the ball like I couldn't get the grip to feel correct, feeling like the face was dead shut. I took 1/2 swings - one arm with a limited turn back but a more or less full turn through - and did it with both left hand only and right hand only. I went back to a conventional grip and hit 20-30 yard shots trying to replicate the feeling of the hands through impact that I had with the one arm swings. 

 

[Darkfrog]

Day 2:

Almost the same thing as yesterday, except without Mevo+. Did a bunch of camera/mirror work indoors, and hit some balls with a 7-iron and 9-iron.

2 hours ago, WillieT said:

Yup - that is what make this both fun and a challenge!  I think I am on my third time of starting over. 

True, but I would have liked to at least get to the 26/28 part before failing though. 😄

[Bob M]

Day 307 - Continuing 9 to 3 with impact awareness today, using AlmostGOLF balls in the yard. I filmed three swings, which showed that I am making some progress getting my weight forward and hips open at impact. The quality is not good enough to post, however. 

[WillieT]

Day 79 (01 Sep 22) - Played 18 with son today.  Round was consistent.  

[Jeremie Boop]

Thanks to @iacasfor pointing me to the 30 day practice plan. Day 1 done. It's pretty amazing how far off my take away was from what it is supposed to be. Definitely need to do that drill a lot so that I don't have to think about it.

 

**side note, man a club starts feeling pretty heavy when you lift it multiple times in a short succession with one hand....

Edited September 1, 2022 by Jeremie Boop

[ChetlovesMer]

Day 45:
Today was just mirror work. I have 3 priority pieces... although you could argue that 2 of them are kinda the same. Or at least similar. ... I digress. 

Anyway, since I played 18 yesterday. I wanted to look at my stuff in a mirror to see if I'm still about where I think I am. 
All 7 iron slow mo swings and a few full speed ones. 
A few moves with the club across my shoulders and even a few without the club.