"5 Minutes Daily" Practice Challenge

[DeadMan]

Day 147: more mirror work. Trying to hone in the backswing stuff real nice. 

[iacas]

Day 72 - 2024-12-11

/sees a picture of Chet after shaving with a saw, goes back to doing a little mirror work at AMG.

[DaHolla]

Day 330 - Mostly just partial swings today, so I could really focus on exaggerating my hips towards the target in my finish. 

[ChetlovesMer]

Day 3: 12/12/2024

Okay, so I've already put in about a 1/2 hour of mirror work on my priority piece which I've nicknamed PPJ. The first to P's are starting to feel less bizarro but the J is still too late. As of now, I'm still thinking about it too much. So, although I'm anxious to hit balls, I'm sticking with the mirror work for another day or two. Then I'll move to the garage net. 

I set up a small station right outside my office so every time I go in or out I can do a slow-mo PPJ in front of a mirror. 

[WillieT]

Day 223 (12 Dec 24) - Got in some full swing work with 6i and 5h in the backyard using hard foam balls.  Good session on ball position -  varying overall ball flight by where I set it up in my stance.  

[DeadMan]

Day 148: did a stack session. 

[Darkfrog]

Day 7:

Raining, so did some mirror work on neutral grip/centered turn. A little bit of putting bead practice too.

[iacas]

Day 73 - 2024-12-12

Got smacked by a table leg at the same time BM got hit in the foot. MG pulled up the video.

Not a ton of practice today, but got some good work done in the hotel room.

[ChetlovesMer]

Day 4: 12/13/2024

Okay, so I've already put in more mirror work on my priority piece today. It's starting to feel better. It's starting to look less rigid. I'm continuing to use the station right outside my office so every time I go in or out I can do a slow-mo PPJ in front of a mirror and I think that's really helping. 

Tomorrow, I might dare to get out to the garage and try it on the mat, hitting some balls into the net. 

Oh, and I almost forgot. I also rolled some putts around for like 40 minutes at The PGA Superstore. 😜

Edited December 13, 2024 by ChetlovesMer

[WillieT]

Day 224 (13 Dec 24) - Friday men’s group session / teamed up with course greens keeper and his assistant.  Was a very “meh” round as I underplayed the putter more than anything.  Driving was okay, irons were good. Wedges were strong - even had a couple green side pitches rattle the flag and lip out for near miss birdies.  Fun part was we were busy repairing pitch marks - like three to each one we made.  Best lesson was really seeing the course from the perspective of the ones’ who take care of it.  

[Darkfrog]

Day 8:

More mirror work on the same stuff; neutral grip / centered turn.

[DeadMan]

Day 149: tooled around with putters at PGA Tour Superstore for a while. None of the putters I tried were better than mine, which is not surprising. 

[DaHolla]

Day 331 - Main focus was on ground contact, so mostly work with the Divot Board. 

[WillieT]

Day 225 (14 Dec 24) - Son called and invited me to play nine with and grandson.  We head to the local course - temps in the mid-50’s, N-NE wind 10-15 mph (hurting going out, helping coming in) as the course pretty much runs N-S on both nines.  Highlight of the round - grandson chips in for par on the 1st hole.  My play was much better to today-five pars, four bogies for a solid 40. Course management as it relates to the wind was key. 4 of the 5 pars were up and down saves as the green side pitches/chips were the ticket.  
Have to say it was neat playing with my son and grandson and seeing the love of the game continue….

[iacas]

Day 75 - 2024-12-14

Hit balls after Junior Elite. Checked out a few of the holes on an old version of Tobacco Road.

[DaHolla]

Day 332 - Played 18 today. Round was alright, although putting cost me 4-5 strokes. I know what I’ll be working on this week. 

[ChetlovesMer]

Day 5: 12/14/2014

More mirror work today. I feel like I'm almost ready to take the PPJ swing to the garage mat/net. 

[ChetlovesMer]

Day 6: 12/15/2024

Today I worked on my PPJ priority piece in front of the mirror for a bit, then I took it out to the garage and hit some balls into the net. That felt productive. At first I had to battle my hit instinct and my "old swing". But I found if I did my PPJ one piece at a time and then added the next part to it I got to where I was making some solid contact into the net and I really started to feel ... dare I say comfortable. Well at least not like an insane-chicken on no-doze. 

Tomorrow more slow-mo mirrors and then more hitting into the net. I really don't want to start reacting to ball flight yet.