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Day 516, March 30, 2024

Played Pinehurst #3, 5115 yards or so, par 68, devilish.

Erik J. Barzeski — ⛳ I knock a ball. It goes in a gopher hole. 🏌🏼‍♂️
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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 94: 3/30/24

Putting practice through 50 mm gates. Slow motion practice swings with a 7-iron.

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1 hour ago, iacas said:

Day 516, March 30, 2024

Played Pinehurst #3, 5115 yards or so, par 68, devilish.

Cool.

Day 35: 3/30/2024

Got out the chipping net and set up some indoor chipping in the basement. Mostly used the 60 degree wedge. Did a little bit of mirror work (barefoot) just checking as I sometimes get a habit of dropping back on my heels. Sometimes I even will lift my toes. 

My bag is an ever-changing combination of clubs. 

A mix I am forever tinkering with. 

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Day 95- 3/31/24 Easter Sunday 

Session 17/24 of Full Speed Spectrum and finished with my 8th fastest speed which matched Session 16. May tray and hit balls before my next session on Tuesday.

 

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Day 517, March 31, 2024

Played Whispering Woods today. The other Whispering Woods that isn't my home course. The one in North Carolina.

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Day 16. Short session of mirror practice working on the backswing and less face closure

April 2024 hcp: 20.3

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Day 109 (31 Mar 24) - Spent some time rehearsing the slap-shot drill and hitting a few hard foam balls afterwards. 

 

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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
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Day 36: 3/31/2024

Today I spent some quality time in front of the mirror. Again, I'll work backswing without a club, with a piece of pvc, with a club across my shoulders and of course a club gripped properly. 

I also got a lot of putting practice in today. Putting mirror, gates, putt-out.

My bag is an ever-changing combination of clubs. 

A mix I am forever tinkering with. 

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Day 265: did a stack session. 

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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 122- Slow, short swings with short practice club. 

BO THE GOLFER

In my Top Flite stand bag:

Driver-Ping G400+ 10.5 degrees regular flex Hybrids-Ping I25 17 & 20 degrees stiff flex Irons-Ping I3 O-size 4 through lob wedge regular flex Putter-Nike Oz 6


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Day 518, April 1, 2024

Good three-hour sesh today. 🙂 A Twitter thread…

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Day 518, April 1, 2024

Good three-hour sesh today. 🙂 A Twitter thread…

Day 17. Pardon my novel

 

I read this thread right before practicing. Given I only had 15 mins I thought I could employ some of the principles. 
 

Started well. Hit a couple chips and they did exactly what I wanted. Managed to get quite a bit of lift even with a 52. Stopped after 3. 

set a goal to work on wrist angles in an attempt to start the ball more right   

Full swing was harder to stick to the plan. 3-4 rehearsals between swings were tough to be patient enough to do. I shanked 3 of my first 4. If I made a mistake I wanted to correct it, with a ball, right away. I managed about 5 minutes before devolving. Lesson here: slow down. 
 

last couple balls I hit fast and they did what I wanted so I stopped. 
 

small progress in how to practice. I should read that thread before each session. 

April 2024 hcp: 20.3

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Day 37: 4/1/2024

Today I went out and shot a 62 on Bethpage Black. ... APRIL FOOLS!!! 🤣

Actually I went to the range. Worked on some of my usual stuff. I also spent a great deal of time trying to hit targets with wedges. Did a bunch of putting on the indoor mat and got my overspeed training in. All in all, a good day. 

My bag is an ever-changing combination of clubs. 

A mix I am forever tinkering with. 

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Day 110 (01 Apr 24) - Played 18 with son and grandson today.  Good play, for me, on the front finishing +3, not as good play on the back as I was +11 (felt like the wheels came off).  Will be reviewing today’s notes…

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 123- Slow, short swings with short practice club. 

BO THE GOLFER

In my Top Flite stand bag:

Driver-Ping G400+ 10.5 degrees regular flex Hybrids-Ping I25 17 & 20 degrees stiff flex Irons-Ping I3 O-size 4 through lob wedge regular flex Putter-Nike Oz 6


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