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Darkfrog Super Member

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Day 86:

Played 18 this morning at my home course. Approach play was poor, short game was decent and kept score from getting out of hand.

-Peter

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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 7, 

Some indoor practice after getting the yard mowed and stabbing myself with a briar bush removal near my back fence. 

Stop the swing at A3, right palm down to the ground at A6. Backswing length + downswing priority. 

Matt Dougherty, P.E.
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Day 612, July 7, 2024

Went downtown for about four hours this morning. Settled in with some 9I, hit a lot of 6I, hit some more 9I near the end, and finished up with a few drivers (before a palate cleansing 6I). I'll post over in my Member Swing topic with a few pictures from GSPro, but… overall, pretty good. Not quite where I'd like it, but essentially, I have to re-acquaint myself with the idea that the face needs to feel 45° open at impact.

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Day 1 - played 9 holes. Reviewed basics: grip, alignment, wide take away back & up with left arm straight with right elbow extended. 

Driver: :callaway: Rogue ST  /  Woods: :tmade: Stealth 5W / Hybrid: :tmade: Stealth 25* / Irons: :ping: i500’s /  Wedges: :edel: 54*, 58*; Putter: :scotty_cameron: Futura 5  Ball: image.png Vero X1

 

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Day 66 (7 Jul 24) - easy mirror work, focused on weight shift.  

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
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Day 181 - Warmed up with some pitching, main focus was impact positions. Some good partial swings have me feeling like I’m progressing well, just need that to transfer to the full swing. 

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Day 67 (8 Jul 24) - Pitching work in the backyard with the PW - ball position/ball flight correlation work - ball back (near trail foot - lower flight); ball center (mid stance - normal flight); ball forward (near lead foot - more lofted flight)…worked to stay away from “trying to help it in the air” syndrome…

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 7, did a short range session working on the downswing priority piece. 

Matt Dougherty, P.E.
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Day 28:  putting in the garage 

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


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Day 198: 7/8/24

Par4Success workout followed by slow motion swings with a PW. Hope to hit a few balls tomorrow after a long layoff.

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Day 613, July 8, 2024

Played 18 holes, then went to the range to hit 8 balls (five drivers, three 3W).

Erik J. Barzeski — ⛳ I knock a ball. It goes in a gopher hole. 🏌🏼‍♂️
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Day 87:

Priority piece work, 9-3 swings with 7-iron. 

-Peter

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Day 182 - More of the same; warmed up with some pitching before working on my priority piece. Slow, partial swings at first, then working up to full swings where I still feel like I’m getting the right impact position. 

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Day 199: 7/9/24

Putting through 50 mm gates and slow motion swings. Completed a Par4Success workout.

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Day 68 (9 Jul 24) - full day painting living room, afternoon rain added up to swing rehearsals in front of mirror with 8i….

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 614, July 9, 2024

Quick trip to the range later in the afternoon.

Erik J. Barzeski — ⛳ I knock a ball. It goes in a gopher hole. 🏌🏼‍♂️
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Day 88:

Worked on driver this evening, almost golf balls. 

-Peter

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  • :pxg: GEN4 0317X, Hybrid
  • :srixon: ZX 3-iron, ZX5 4-AW
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      Day 37: did my drill swings in the garage with foam balls for about 15 minutes. Working on getting my backswing more turned and then going from there. 
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      Thanks but honestly… I don't know any other way. I don't mind being wrong so long as I know where to go from there. I don't like being wrong — I'd love to get things right (which is different than "being right"). I recommend grabbing a furniture slider or a paper plate or something, and doing something like this: First, make a swing where you let your trail foot swing out as you turn, then twist that foot back in. From DL and FO, it'll look like this: Then, during a regular backswing, try to twist your foot in slightly (demonstrated in the left image): You'll notice a crease along the trail side of your hip, your pelvis will "fold" into that thigh (internal rotation of the hip joint), and your "bits" will be squished a little between your pelvis and your thigh. Ben Hogan said once: "At the top of the back swing the groin muscle on the inside of your rt [sic] leg near your right nut will tighten," Hogan wrote. "This subtle feeling of tightness there tells you that you have made the correct move back from the ball." I don't know about that, but you will probably feel something down around that area.
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      By saevel25 · Posted

      Yep. I think it will start to feel even more athletic when we start on the downswing stuff later.  I know, it's just I want to be younger so I have more time to enjoy the changes. 🙂 
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      I need to drop a couple of stone. 🙂 😛    Yep. Yeah, but in the end, it feels more athletic, like you're actually using your legs, yeah? As you know… we use the best available info we have. Like others, I was fooled a little by 2D images for awhile (moving or still). Unlike others, I've learned and grown and moved on since then, while they're still looking at their images (often from lousy camera angles).
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