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Bob M Great Member

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Day 9 - Putting - Did the Kenyon start line gate drill getting 28/30, followed by about 10 minutes of different length strokes to a metronome at 72 bpm. 

  • Clubs: Ping, Edison, Maltby, Callaway, SeeMore
  • Other: Maxfli Tour or Vice Pro; Callaway ORG 7 bag; Shot Scope X5; True Linkswear 
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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 53: Aug 8

Indoor drills to maintain (lock down) clubpath; takeaway, backswing and transition into impact.

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WillieT Great Member

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Day 48 (08 Aug 23) - Worked with the wedges some today.  Hitting easy pitches to targets in the yard, focused gripping down and making fluid swings thru the ball. 

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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klineka Super Member

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Day 102 - Chipped and putted, filmed putting video for Evolvr, and The Stack session. 

Putting still needs some work but felt like I made some progress chipping by using more of my body pivot.

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 281, August 8, 2023

Played the Scarlet course at OSU with @saevel25. Holed birdies from 45 feet, 50 feet (25 of which was fairway), and 1 foot. 😄

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Day 3, August 8th, 2023

Played 18 holes with @iacas. Had a great time playing The Scarlet Course at The Ohio State University Golf Club. I need to pay my Alumni dues so I can make some trips down to Columbus to play that course more often. I really enjoyed The Scarlet Course. 

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Driver; :pxg: 0311 Gen 5,  3-Wood: :titleist: 917h3 ,  Hybrid:  :titleist: 915 2-Hybrid,  Irons: Sub 70 TAIII Fordged
Wedges: :edel: (52, 56, 60),  Putter: :edel:,  Ball: :snell: MTB,  Shoe: :true_linkswear:,  Rangfinder: :leupold:
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Day 22: range night. Hit 15 drivers, working on my priority piece and going slow. Then chipped for about 25 minutes, working primarily on short pitches and flops. Finished up with putting, working on putts from inside 12 feet. 

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klineka Super Member

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9 hours ago, iacas said:

Day 281, August 8, 2023

Played the Scarlet course at OSU with @saevel25. Holed birdies from 45 feet, 50 feet (25 of which was fairway), and 1 foot. 😄

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Day 3, August 8th, 2023

Played 18 holes with @iacas. Had a great time playing The Scarlet Course at The Ohio State University Golf Club. I need to pay my Alumni dues so I can make some trips down to Columbus to play that course more often. I really enjoyed The Scarlet Course. 

Let me know if you ever need an extra guy if you play there in the future @saevel25. It's only about 30 min from me. I've never played it before but have always wanted to and don't know too many alumni.

 

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 54: Aug 9

More indoor takeaway drills. Trying to stop myself taking an excessive backswing.

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WillieT Great Member

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Day 49 (09 Aug 23) - Spent time with the driver this morning.  Setup to hit a few hard foam balls, but added a tee lying on the ground in front of the teed ball.  First few swings, driver is brushing the tee lying in front enough to move it.  Worked on getting an upward attack happening.  Session concluded with me letting lying tees lie.  Need to work on this more.  

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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Bob M Great Member

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Day 10 - Only had a few minutes today so did Kenyon startline gate drill again and got 10/10. 

  • Clubs: Ping, Edison, Maltby, Callaway, SeeMore
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Day 282, August 9, 2023

Played 18 at Scioto Country Club. Played okay for what I'm working on. Made the first birdie in the group of four.

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Day 4, August 9th, 2023

Worked on short game and putting. 

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What's in My Bag
Driver; :pxg: 0311 Gen 5,  3-Wood: :titleist: 917h3 ,  Hybrid:  :titleist: 915 2-Hybrid,  Irons: Sub 70 TAIII Fordged
Wedges: :edel: (52, 56, 60),  Putter: :edel:,  Ball: :snell: MTB,  Shoe: :true_linkswear:,  Rangfinder: :leupold:
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klineka Super Member

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Day 102 - Practiced wedges and a few drivers. Driver is so good right now.

Wedges were better when I moved ball back a little. Have a tendency where ball position with wedges keeps creeping forward over time. Need to be more conscious of it.

Did some indoor putting at home too working on a new setup position. Felt good.

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 23: did a stack session and worked on my backswing feels during rest breaks. 

-- 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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Bob M Great Member

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Day 11 - Ninty minutes of short game work at the NKGC practice green. Putting (spiral drill 2' to 9'; pull-back drill from 20+ feet) followed by short wedge shots (10-30 yards) to different holes tracking proximity. Did Level-2 Super Speed training when I got home. 

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  • Clubs: Ping, Edison, Maltby, Callaway, SeeMore
  • Other: Maxfli Tour or Vice Pro; Callaway ORG 7 bag; Shot Scope X5; True Linkswear 
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30 minutes ago, Bob M said:

Day 11 - Ninty minutes of short game work at the NKGC practice green. Putting (spiral drill 2' to 9'; pull-back drill from 20+ feet) followed by short wedge shots (10-30 yards) to different holes tracking proximity. Did Level-2 Super Speed training when I got home. 

That right there sounds like a pretty good day of practice. 

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My bag is an ever-changing combination of clubs. 

A mix I am forever tinkering with. 

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MrLeek Well Established Member

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Day 55: Aug 10

Practice round. Tee to near-the-green was fairly solid, but my touch on and around the green was sporadic at best. Lesson learned: if you’re not ‘feeling the shot”, rethink and play a higher percentage shot. The result may be less impressive but you won’t get disheartened.

Still played to hcap. So it wasn’t that bad at all - I’m just setting a higher pass mark for myself.

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      It's not meaningful, because driving = playing golf. When practicing "turns," that isn't what block practice is, and that's just one aspect of practicing driving. Block practice of turns would be practicing the same turn repeatedly in the same way. We'll talk sometime, Vishal, because I'm not sure I'm reading you right or vice versa. Block vs. Random practice "studies" are cited all the time, but it turns out that block practice isn't what many actually think it is, per Dr. Raymond Prior himself. I think it's a much narrower thing than what many people think it is.
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      In my original post, the 'same thing' in relation to block practice of = 'how to handle the steering' not 'exact same turn 100 times'. There's a meaningful difference. Hope that clears the confusion. In any case I made a larger point in favor of block practice, ya know, repetition of a specific piece if done mindfully as a good thing, which I think is very much on topic. Matt's post ask a good question about learning a new motor pattern. Like how would you randomize 'make sure the club head goes outside the hands in the bs'? I would think it is literally the same move a 100 times = block practice right? 
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      Day 437 - 2025-12-11 Got some backswing work done on GEARS today after testing out a few things. Backswing looking pretty good, generally speaking. I can… Hinge a little earlier. Stay right a little longer. Keep a little trail knee flex. I'll continue with that the rest of December, then re-assess. It may go to the middle of January or so, before I can do the downswing stuff again.
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      That post confused me. It's kinda been the whole topic here. Literally doing the same exact thing over and over again = block practice.
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