What/How Did You Practice Today?

[RaRa Golf]

Played a nice Stanley Thompson designed local 9-hole with my buddy yesterday. 

Chipping wasn't great, putting was atrocious... but my driver... it came to play!

I sky'd the first drive on the first hole, but after that, I hit every fairway of every driver hole, and I hit 2 of the best drives I've ever hit in my entire golfing lifetime. 

The single plane swing seems to work wonders for my driver, and yesterday was just more evidence to me that I need to keep implementing that technique. 

[StrokerAce]

another golftec lesson last night and managed to impress the instructor.

this shot had 0 side spin. It was laser straight. said he doesn't see that very often.

so far pleased with my experience. worked a little on full swing and chipping. helped me with my setup and swing path a lot. things you really need a camera to see.

[tommyb1683]

I am part of the superspeed test and I took the PRGR radar to the range today. You can read all about it through clicking the link below. After I got my baseline swing speed I spent the rest of the time there working on my mechanics for my backswing. I got a few tips while at my PGA HOPE session yesterday and was just trying to practice those things. Seems to be helping, I am hitting the ball straighter. 

All About My Testing So Far!!!

[Josh Ross]

On 5/17/2023 at 9:36 AM, DeBartola_B said:

Question for people who practice frequently on a net without any type of launch monitor.

How many balls do you typically hit and what are you looking to accomplish? 

I've been hitting into the net pretty frequently over the last 6 months or so, much more than I am able to get to a course.  I typically only hit 30, maybe 40 balls at a time and usually just work on ball striking.  I use the foot spray a lot to get a gauge of where I am striking the ball on the clubface. I have found this to be very beneficial to my game as my iron play and ball striking has improved drastically over the last year.  It's not rocket science to me, you work on one aspect of your game and it gets better.  I guess my questions is there anything anyone has done while hitting on nets to improve wedges, 75 yards and in?  That is such a difficult distance/shot for me to get a feel on how I am doing without watching the complete ball flight and is definitely the part of the game I need to work on the most.

I'm not a net hitter but I came here to say Hail Southern!

[DeBartola_B]

14 minutes ago, Josh Ross said:

I'm not a net hitter but I came here to say Hail Southern!

2 Southern shoutouts on one post! Gotta be a record! @Charles Lechair

[Josh Ross]

1 hour ago, DeBartola_B said:

2 Southern shoutouts on one post! Gotta be a record! @Charles Lechair

My nephew and I eat, breathe, and sleep Georgia Southern. Not sure there's a word for our level of fandom/involvement haha. 

[DeBartola_B]

3 minutes ago, Josh Ross said:

My nephew and I eat, breathe, and sleep Georgia Southern. Not sure there's a word for our level of fandom/involvement haha. 

Oh awesome, I played offensive line there from 2008-2012.  Love that place, University golf course is fun track also. I try to get down once a year for a football game and play the course.

[Josh Ross]

10 minutes ago, DeBartola_B said:

Oh awesome, I played offensive line there from 2008-2012.  Love that place, University golf course is fun track also. I try to get down once a year for a football game and play the course.

Heck yeah man, we were there together then. I was there the same years, became friends with a lot of the guys on the team and probably crossed paths with you often. You should try to join us for the Donors Tournament in August! Won it two years ago with a 71 but it has moved to a scramble. It's at the University Course.

[chisag]

21 minutes ago, Josh Ross said:

My nephew and I eat, breathe, and sleep Georgia Southern. Not sure there's a word for our level of fandom/involvement haha. 

 

15 minutes ago, DeBartola_B said:

Oh awesome, I played offensive line there from 2008-2012.  Love that place, University golf course is fun track also. I try to get down once a year for a football game and play the course.

 

... I was born and raised in the South and as much as I love OLineman I do think it is kinda remedial to have to remind hillbilly students in Georgia that they are in the South. (although lineman I understand needing a reminder) 

[Charles Lechair]

12 hours ago, DeBartola_B said:

Oh awesome, I played offensive line there from 2008-2012.  Love that place, University golf course is fun track also. I try to get down once a year for a football game and play the course.

Been a couple years since i've been back (which is a crime since i'm only an hour away). Need to get back up there and play it. Very fun course and i'd like to think I'm a better golfer now than when i was in school so would hopefully be even more enjoyable

Edited May 19 by Charles Lechair

[Dweed]

Raining today so hit balls into the net in the barn.  Verified that lie angle was good with the sharpie test.

[richk9holes]

Driving range followed by 9 holes walking with the new Stealth hybrid. Hit it about 8 times total. Those white marks center face are from the range on a short tee and off the mat. On course use was as a rescue, long grass fw bunker etc

[Tom the Golf Nut]

I was skimming through YouTube and saw something on generating more swing speed. Today during lunch I worked on my swing speed. For some reason I was getting quick and short in the backswing and not getting a full turn. I didn’t have enough space/time to generate speed on the down swing. Thank goodness for a simulator. I was able to gain 10 mph from where I started and got my distance back up. Amazing once you figure out what you were doing wrong how quickly you can get back on the right track. I think I can get another few mph out of this old body. But tomorrow I’m going to take this to the course and see how this works out.

[Shapotomous]

23 minutes ago, Tom the Golf Nut said:

I was skimming through YouTube and saw something on generating more swing speed. Today during lunch I worked on my swing speed. For some reason I was getting quick and short in the backswing and not getting a full turn. I didn’t have enough space/time to generate speed on the down swing. Thank goodness for a simulator. I was able to gain 10 mph from where I started and got my distance back up. Amazing once you figure out what you were doing wrong how quickly you can get back on the right track. I think I can get another few mph out of this old body. But tomorrow I’m going to take this to the course and see how this works out.

Be careful out there! 

This oldish body with a lot more miles than years revolted when i embarked on a quest for speed! 

[Tom the Golf Nut]

37 minutes ago, Shapotomous said:

Be careful out there! 

This oldish body with a lot more miles than years revolted when i embarked on a quest for speed! 

It’s not so much a quest to gain more but  rather get back what I had at the end of last season (carefully of course). 

[Vegan_Golfer_PNW]

Worked on some mechanics in the park today. Sun was just right so I could see my shadow on the fence behind me. Basically using it as a swing mirror. Worked on 6i. Slow swings then speeding up a little. Then did some some short pitches (14-25 yards) using a feel I saw taking the club back and then letting it fall. Couple that with rotation and you have a nice club glide for pitches. Need to see if that would work for longer shots (only had ~40 yards of park space). Then moved on to driver, slow swings, then fairway finder, then a little faster. Then back to pitches. Repeated that sequence twice. Prepping for a tournament in one week. 

[Mr. Mushball]

Today's practice is to practice my followthrough.  Keep wrist bowed through whole swing, hands following path line and raising hands in follow through.  

[MacTourney]

Rainy and cool today so just staying inside but yesterday tuned up a little at the range by just staying inside.  

[RollingGreens]

Hit the range for a little over an hour. Started off with wedges and distance control. Then did some target practice. Working on aligning club face and body to target. Finished off with maintaining speed with the driver using PRGR for feedback. Able to maintain 102-104 which is about 10 mph faster than what I finished with last year. Plus I’m down 32lbs doing it!!

[GaryF]

On 5/20/2023 at 11:31 AM, Vegan_Golfer_PNW said:

Worked on some mechanics in the park today. Sun was just right so I could see my shadow on the fence behind me. Basically using it as a swing mirror. Worked on 6i. Slow swings then speeding up a little. Then did some some short pitches (14-25 yards) using a feel I saw taking the club back and then letting it fall. Couple that with rotation and you have a nice club glide for pitches. Need to see if that would work for longer shots (only had ~40 yards of park space). Then moved on to driver, slow swings, then fairway finder, then a little faster. Then back to pitches. Repeated that sequence twice. Prepping for a tournament in one week. 

I basically do that with all of my wedges. I do each with a full swing and then I do almost full backswing extension but a very relaxed downswing with out the acceleration.  It’s called a dead arm 3/4 swing.  Very easy to execute and repeat and works very well.  Depending on which of my 3 wedges I use, it’s the identical swing and fills at 80, 70 and 60 yards.  Just be mindful that you won’t get very high spin so plan for there to be more runout on the green.