"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge

[Bob M]

Day 320 - Played 18 today with a couple from Rockport, MA. Mediocre round with 3 blowup holes and poor putting in general. On a positive note, my short game was pretty good, as were my approach shots (except on the blow-up holes). 

[WillieT]

Day 93 (15 Sep 22) - Played 18 at Minnesott with my son today.  

[Shindig]

Day 192.  I allocated time after work to practice before socializing.  I was successful in using my allocated time, and I am now working more on the elbows drill than my previous ratio, as I don't feel I'm doing it as well as the other one. 

[Clemsonfan]

Day 6 - putting through both the small and medium putting gates.  Start line is good and speed control was pretty consistent.  Looking forward to playing Saturday.  

[Big Lex]

Day 52 (9/15/22): Today I practiced full swings as yesterday, but with a bit more focus and attempting to collect data. I hit for 30-35 minutes, dividing the session between 7 iron, PW, 4 iron, and driver, and hit everything on the launch monitor so I could follow path and face angle. I worked on Kwon elements, sometimes doing step drills as practice swings. What I was specifically experimenting with was the feel of trying to pull the grip off the club at the bottom of the swing, in the hitting area, at the same time as kicking the ground with my left leg into impact. As with yesterday, this had an immediate effect on my swing path, moving it from it's typical too much in-out to something very neutral. Contact wasn't quite as good as it was this weekend, mostly a tendency to thin hits and toe hits. But the face angle was very good, and I got pretty good dispersion with all the clubs. I finished with the driver and began getting a little sloppy and losing focus, and this resulted in a few big miss hooks, but I was able to eliminate them with feels like waiting more in transition, letting the lower body lead and control the downswing, really kicking the ground with my left leg through impact, etc. In the past, if I tried to make my club path go more left, I would usually be unable to. The only things that would make it happen would be an exaggerated outside take away, or an exaggerated open stance, and neither of these looked right on video. They also produced shitty impact. The feel of pulling the grip off of the club, however, produced a beautiful, consistent path that was neutral, and I could make it slightly open by exaggerating the move a little or taking an open stance. As I said I was hitting it thin, but often when I'm trying something new, I will have tension in my arms and wrists, and will not uncock the wrists enough, leading to the thin hits. 

[Darkfrog]

Day 5:

Basically same thing as the last four days, working with 7-iron and 3-wood today.

[Bob M]

Day 321 - Instead of actually swinging a club, today I decided to closely evaluate yesterday's round.

I shot a 21 over 91, which is 6.26 shots lost to my benchmark of a 15 capper (per Shot Scope). The real story, however is on four holes I lost 6.57 strokes, whereas I gained 0.31 on the remaining 14 holes. I had two penalty strokes off the tee (4 and 9) versus only three others to date this year.  Ironically one of my better holes turned out to be saving bogie on 9, a short uphill Par 4 with well guarded by bunkers (found the ball, took an unplayable, pitched to the fairway, got up and down from 55 yards). 

Three of my four blowup holes were due to really poor tee shots, followed by several more poorly executed shots. Additionally, I only had 2 GIRs (and 5 nGIRS) so my approach game was off as well, again mainly do to poorly executed shots on my blowup holes. In other words, yesterday was a definite "Jekyll and Hyde" performance on my part with 14 good holes and 4 awful ones. It goes without saying that I'll be reading the TST thread on avoiding blowup holes REALLY closely.

While short putting was good and approach putting OK, I didn't make anything from 5' to 20'....the "Makeable Putt Challenge" distances.... literally zero. Putts in this range will become the primary focus of the putting practice until I improve significantly in the range. There are several good drill in LSW I'll be incorporating and tracking performance using the "Makeable Putt Challenge". 

 

[WillieT]

Day 94 (16 Sep 22) A day of wedge struggles in the backyard.  Had planned to  hit some easy 58deg wedges from 10yds to around 50.  Swing was off - was in a hit one solid, hit two off the hosel mode. Stopped and walked thru the setup and practice swing.  Saw that I was not rotating the torso.  Worked on short pitches - finished the drill with solid pitches and no h-rockets.  

[boogielicious]

Day 1- Started practicing again after a busy week. I did play Wednesday. 

[ChetlovesMer]

Day 59: 9/16/2022

Played 7 really good holes of golf this morning. ... And 2 ugly ones. ... oops. 

9 holes and I shot 45. That was with a quadruple bogey on number 2 and a triple bogey on number 9. 

The quadruple I sprayed my tee shot into the water. Then compounded my mistake. (that's becoming a bad reoccurring theme with me. Gotta stop that.) The triple on 9. I had a NGIR then my head fell off. 🤷‍♂️

Edited September 17, 2022 by ChetlovesMer

[Shindig]

Day 193.  As I did a few times this week, allocating time after work really helped.  Tonight I did a 50/50 of tilt and elbow drills, slow and with my new mirrors (which I really like). 

[Clemsonfan]

Day 7 - putting practice through gates, and indoor chipping.  Playing tomorrow morning after being off for a few weeks!

[Big Lex]

Day 53 (September 16, 2022): More full swing work, Kwon drill-based swings. Continuing to get very nice swing path numbers, and probably the best face to path I've had since I got this launch monitor--on maybe half of the shots. But face angle variation was higher on the bad shots, so something was creeping in there. Anyway about 1 hour of drills and ball hitting. Working this weekend but I hope to get out and play.  

[Darkfrog]

Day 6:

Did shot zone mapping with 7-iron and Mevo+.

[Clemsonfan]

Day 8- prior to round this morning practiced chips and pitches at Musgrove Mills excellent short game facility.  Holed one chip and one pitch over a bunker, and really looked forward to doing well during the round.  That, unfortunately, did not occur! 😒

[Big Lex]

Day 54 (9/17/22): I practiced and played (alas, simulator again; as I worked most of the day). I was working on proper pivot, proper transition movement, rhythm, and the feel of pulling up and left on the handle through impact. Striking was not as good as last week, but still better. The path remains really solid. The pulling up feel seems to prevent me from complete ulnar deviation and unhinging, so I get more thin hits. Also, trying to work on an impact hand feel AND a transition feel is hard and when I swing at speed in the simulated rounds, I get out of sequence. I played a course at 7000 yards because I wanted to see what it was like. I did ok; shot 85 after opening with a quad on the first hole, and having several 3 putts. After the round I went back to 40 yard-ish shots with a wedge to work on the transition move and the up/left handle pull feel. 

[Darkfrog]

Day 7:

Short game drills and some full swing work focusing on backswing piece with 4-iron and driver, hitting almost golf balls. 

[Shindig]

Day 194.  Today was a workday for me, but I did allocate the time for fifteen minutes of full swing practice.  The ratio was 50/50 of the two drills, one ball each.

(It's a good thing too because I plan to play tomorrow).