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Day 159: 6/3/24

Stack Training Full Speed Spectrum session 20/24. Diagnosed with tennis elbow today. Finished 1 mph higher than last session.

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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 17 - Indoors practice. Some small setup changes and then working on hands path.

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Day 82. Went to the chipping green over lunch. As usual, I'm tentative and end up short. Trying to get comfortable with pitching/chipping closer to the hole or even a bit past. Technique was reasonable and outcome improved as I got more comfortable with distance. Will try to get in full swing technique work into the net this evening. 

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April 2024 hcp: 20.3

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Day 34 (4 Apr 24) - Worked on 1/2 - 3/4 swings today with 9i and hard foam balls.  Focused on pausing at P3, getting weight on lead foot and then swinging through.  Hit about 40 balls total. 

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Odyssey Versa or White Steel #5
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Day 52:

Indoor full swing rehearsals and some putting.

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Day 160: 6/4/24

Dealing with tennis elbow and limited to putting practice through 50 mm gates.

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Day 579, June 4, 2024

Practiced on the Quad for a bit. Adding a little of the "push hard with the left side" stuff to help the lie angle at impact numbers. Doing this in early 2020 strained something in my left side, I was doing it so aggressively, so it's not new.

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Day 1, again:  hit a few balls into the net this morning to make sure my shoulder would be ok and I could keep my tee time.  Chiro and athletic massages have helped my shoulder quite a bit.  Played my third 9 hole round and shaved off another 3 strokes (10 since my first game).  Son and hubby played terribly today and I was only 4 over hubby and 1 over my son (they blamed it on the 101 degree heat).  

I may not hit the ball far, but at least I find all of the pretty flowers. 


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Day 18 - Upper back ached a bit, probably from practice that led to some tremendously fat shots. More backswing work today. Really need to feel like I'm overdoing it to actually do what I'm trying to do. Feels so weird compared to my normal swing. Still working on setup and distance to the ball. Golf is hard.

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Day 580, June 5, 2024

I played two holes today, but I'll also get downtown later today and get some more practice in.

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Day 83. Spent a few minutes this morning working on technique in a little practice station. Tired from a workout last night so the movement started well but faded relatively quickly. 

April 2024 hcp: 20.3

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Day 2: putting practice 

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Day 35 (5 Jun 24) an easy day with the 58, working on stance, setup - hitting pitches in the backyard. 

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Ping G400 3h and 4h R flex
Taylormade SLDR 5i thru PW graphite shaft R flex
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Odyssey Versa or White Steel #5
Srixon Q Star

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Day 161: 6/5/24

Putting practice through 50 mm gates as I recover from tennis elbow.

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Day 53:

Played 18 at a funky 18 hole executive course near vacation rental.

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