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Day 228, June 16, 2023

Played 18 with @billchao again. This time at Inniscrone. Meh.

Erik J. Barzeski — ⛳ I knock a ball. It goes in a gopher hole. 🏌🏼‍♂️
Director of Instruction Golf Evolution • Owner, The Sand Trap .com • Author, Lowest Score Wins
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Welcome to the "5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge for 2018! Please read as the rules have changed! Yes, for all of 2018! I'm changing it up. Rather than do this monthly, we're going to hav

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3/31/18: Day 365: The post you've all been waiting for.  I did some more work with my A4 to A5 drills. I know it seems like it's monotonous and stupid... But yesterday after I posted I

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Well I'm at 276 consecutive days. 1/1/18: I did my path drill indoors today. For those of you who don't know what this is, it involves 2 to 4 water or soda bottles a club and a foam ball. I

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Day 15

90min down at the range, still have a hefty slice and alot to work on. Update recordings in my swing thread to review and decide on how to practice in coming weeks.

Mike in Scotland - Discovering golf one divot at a time

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Day 7: Jun 17

Played in the monthly medal (first time for everything). Shot +2 nett…and when I unfortunately remember how I had to write down a 10 for a par 5, I realise just how good a round of golf i put together from the back tees (where I’ve never played before). Played smart golf (mostly), made good decisions (mostly!) and rode my luck a little bit. But made plenty of good shots.

Things to work on: make sure I’m aligned correctly for shots and focus on accuracy.

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Day 13: long practice session at the range. Long game for about 45 minutes with filming. Found out I was setting up pretty closed to my target, so good to fix that. Then did short game for over an hour. Worked on putting speed drills and short putts and then a little bit of everything chipping. 

-- Daniel

In my bag: :callaway: Paradym :callaway: Epic Flash 3.5W (16 degrees)

:callaway: Rogue Pro 3-PW :edel: SMS Wedges - V-Grind (48, 54, 58):edel: Putter

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Day 229, June 17, 2023

Did some work downtown because I got there early for a lesson. We're starting the tear-down!

Erik J. Barzeski — ⛳ I knock a ball. It goes in a gopher hole. 🏌🏼‍♂️
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Day 33. Rainy day. Just did some left leg feel while watching the US Open.

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Day 25, June 17th 2023

Worked on my short game and putting before heading to dinner with family. Worked on hitting landing spots, and controlling my backswing length. 

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Driver; :pxg: 0311 Gen 5,  3-Wood: :titleist: 917h3 ,  Hybrid:  :titleist: 915 2-Hybrid,  Irons: Sub 70 TAIII Fordged
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Day 54 - Played 18 holes. Driver feeling worked really really well when I committed to it. Multiple drives of 290+ in the middle of the fairway. Even misses off to the right were around 275-280 range.

Partial wedges need a bit more work, everything flew 5-10yds longer than I saw on the launch monitor. Missed a bunch of greens long from 75-110.

Driver: :titleist:  GT3
Woods:  :cobra: Darkspeed LS 3Wood
Irons: :titleist: U505 (3)  :tmade: P770 (4-PW)
Wedges: :callaway: MD3 50   :titleist: SM9 54/58  
Putter: :tmade: Spider X

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Day 17: 6/17/23

Practiced before my round today. Chips and pitches, followed by full swing and putting.

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Day 1: well, started the practice up again. Unfortunately, I popped my hamstring and can’t swing full right now. But worked more on making sure my grip was correct and as I mentioned previously, making sure my wrists set. Just feeling the club get set. 


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Day 8: Jun 18

Practice day at the range, continuing to try and develop/maintain a good swing path. As before it’s gets away from me with driver & 3-wood, but it remains playable. Rest is in good shape; a controlled fade with a 4-hybrid upwards is adding more confidence in my game.

The “bad miss” with my driver is either losing control of the clubface (leaving it too open) or maybe it’s down to the impact spot on my driver being near the heel. I’ve said this before…but I need to understand what’s happening. That means a solo trackman session or two.

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Day 16

Rotation work and backswing, avoiding extending body/arms to far back, keeping weight more centered 

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Day 34. Range today. Worked on my PP for a bit with 6 iron and driver including set up and backswing tempo. Then moved onto keeping my backswing long as it tends to shorten during rounds. Finally, just worked down the bag with a couple of shots with each club to targets.

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Day 230, June 18, 2023

Lawnmower broke so my plan to go to the range today was scuttled. I did some work indoors in prep for a round on Monday and Tuesday. Reflections. Have to get the backswing right or the downswing almost doesn't matter.

Edit (3:30pm): Well, I lied. I went to the range and hit about 45 golf balls. Took about an hour or so. I like these west coast U.S. Opens.

Erik J. Barzeski — ⛳ I knock a ball. It goes in a gopher hole. 🏌🏼‍♂️
Director of Instruction Golf Evolution • Owner, The Sand Trap .com • Author, Lowest Score Wins
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Day 8: 6/18/23

indoor chips went well.

Stack Neural Training preceded by Wright balance training. I am 2 days late due to a lesson Friday and playing yesterday, and it showed. I finished at 110, 4 mph below my high during this session. A little off my game today.

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Day 55 - Proper practice session at the range with a bunch of good reps focusing on my priority piece.

A ton of dry reps later at home too.

Driver: :titleist:  GT3
Woods:  :cobra: Darkspeed LS 3Wood
Irons: :titleist: U505 (3)  :tmade: P770 (4-PW)
Wedges: :callaway: MD3 50   :titleist: SM9 54/58  
Putter: :tmade: Spider X

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Day 1 (18 Jun 2023) - After a week away for a vacation (which included a really nice round of golf at a resort course in Punta Cana, DR) I am back to the drills.  Picked up the 7i and worked on setup and tempo, hitting some hard foam balls.  Good to be back in the practice routine.  

Ping G400 SFT 10deg  R flex
Ping G410 3w R flex
Ping G400 3h and 4h R flex
Taylormade SLDR 5i thru PW graphite shaft R flex
Cleveland CBX wedges - 50, 54, 58 or 52, 58 (depending on my mood)
Odyssey Versa or White Steel #5
Srixon Q Star

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Day 14: Played the local par 3 course with my son. 7/9 GIR, +2. Felt good.

-- Daniel

In my bag: :callaway: Paradym :callaway: Epic Flash 3.5W (16 degrees)

:callaway: Rogue Pro 3-PW :edel: SMS Wedges - V-Grind (48, 54, 58):edel: Putter

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      Day 27 (7 Dec 25) - Got in a few swings with 9i and hard foam balls in backyard.  Setup weight fwd (rebuilt left foot really lets me feel the weight in a slightly painful way) - kept the backswing to around 9 o’clock focusing on contact and resulting divot pattern.  Like how the hard foam balls come off the face (almost like real balls in sound).  A good abbreviated session as I only able to hit about a dozen balls in the fading light. 
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      Not the part I was replying to: Handicaps did not go down much (like 0.14 on average IIRC?) when we went from 10/20*0.96 to 8/20. And a good chunk of that was from the +s.
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      I think he meant in the UK. The old system was completely different from the new one. 10/20 x 0.96 vs 8/20 would really only impact very low handicaps I think. The 0.96 serves to increase differentials for plus differentials, where 8/20 vs 10/20 works to lower differentials for all. I don't know many plus golfers who would be upset that their index got lower. A lot of really good players don't even really keep their handicaps up-to-date. They're much more interested in their WAGR rankings which get them entries to certain events.
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      Day 433 - 2025-12-07 Got some work in after Junior Elite before a night of sports (and the return of my wife!). Backswing work. Similar to what a lot of my juniors are doing.
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