"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge

[MrLeek]

Day 53: May 19

Played 18 holes at regular course. A few very questionable holes, but otherwise plenty of decent golf played. Cutting out dumb mistakes remains a focus; part of that comes from really focusing in on the shot I’m about to play but also gain a better understanding of what’s possible/realistic for me to achieve from that shot. 

[MrLeek]

Day 54: May 20

Range practice, working on better control of the clubface. I *think* that my focus on having the correct wrist position at the top of the backswing meant that I’m hitting a little-too-excessive fade with a 3-wood. This is instead of a seemingly-straighter shot at the start but basically a slice by the end.

My first thought was that the better wrist position was encouraging an out-to-in swing path. But on reflection I think the swing path is generally unchanged for all of the swings - it’s just that an incorrect wrist -> wide open face -> slice. Whereas the correct wrist is -> face square-ish to path, but with my current out-to-in swing path -> strong fade. Improve the swing path a little and it’ll become a more “normal” fade.

[Darkfrog]

Day 1:

Been practicing daily but not posting. Today I worked on full swing with 6 iron, mostly backswing but also some downswing work as well. Also did about 20 min of short game practice. 

[klineka]

Day 26 - Light day today, just some dry rehearsal swings in the garage focusing on priority piece

[Clemsonfan]

Day 58: 5/20/23

Stack balance training and slow motion swings to ingrain release and weight shift. Finished with chipping and putting practice through gates.

[WillieT]

Day 84 (20 May 23) - Busy day, managed to get some time to work on setup and tempo work.  Focused on feeling weight shift forward in swing. 

Edited May 21, 2023 by WillieT
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[boogielicious]

Played 18 at Little Mountain with @rwolfe, @bkuehn1952and @ChetlovesMer in my group. Had a lot of fun even though it was cart path only.

[DeadMan]

Day 31: mirror work today. Working on downswing feels. 

[iacas]

Day 201, May 20, 2023

Played in the TST outing.

[Darkfrog]

Day 2:

Played 18 this morning. Drove the sh*t out of the ball (+4 strokes) and gave it back on approach shots (-4 strokes). Short game and putting were good, except for one weird pitch shot where I almost completely missed the ball and squirted it off the toe.

[MrLeek]

Day 55: May 21

More range time. What seemed to be working yesterday with my fairway wood swing…didn’t seem to work today. I could “fudge” things with a strong grip that helped close the face. But without that I couldn’t seem to close the face properly. In a way it’s helped diagnose what’s happening: my clubpath is out-to-in (not excessively, but I need to improve it), but the clubface is way too open in relation to the clubpath/target line.

One positive was hybrid work: fairly tight dispersion. It’s either a slight pull or a baby fade, but I’m being a little hard on myself. A ~3.5 degree variation from my target line with a hybrid is completely fine given my current ability.

Edited May 21, 2023 by MrLeek

[DeadMan]

Day 32: Played 18 holes. Didn’t get a ton out of hitting 11 greens with a 79, but overall pretty happy with how I played. 

[boogielicious]

Day 15. GEARS lesson at Golf Evolution. Very productive. 

[Clemsonfan]

Day 59: 5/21/23

Stack Neural Training session 7/24. 3rd max swing session in a row and it would be too much to ask to hit my 3rd consecutive personal high. Dropped down to 111 mph, and that should translate to 106 when I swing normally, which is a couple mph more than I was before starting the training.

Hoped to play 9 this evening to test my swing speed on a familiar course but had some real life issues arise. Maybe I will be able to sneak out this week.

[iacas]

Day 202, May 21, 2023

Worked on my swing for about 15 minutes (though three of those swings were goofing around with my eyes closed) with @billchao and @boogielicious.

[klineka]

Day 27 - Range session and putted today.

Getting more and more used to the feeling with my priority piece and practicing properly.

Continued to focus on feeling like the putter goes inside on the way back and that made my start line so much more consistent.

[WillieT]

Day 85 (21 May 23) - Continued work today with more work on swing tempo w/5i.  Focused weight shift to load the front foot (still nursing the broken down skin condition).  

[Dwalk2088]

Day 1: worked on the same things with the hips and falling left. Also narrowed my stance a bit.