WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.160 All right, so by now you guys are ball 2 00:00:02.160 --> 00:00:03.600 flight masters, or at least well on your 3 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:05.160 way. You know all the little secrets and 4 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:07.099 tips from the pros that allow them to 5 00:00:07.099 --> 00:00:09.080 more consistently pull off shots that 6 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:11.539 look like they're the impossible. You're 7 00:00:11.539 --> 00:00:13.320 learning all their little secrets, And 8 00:00:13.320 --> 00:00:14.419 now I'm gonna show you how to put this 9 00:00:14.419 --> 00:00:16.100 into practice so that you can play this 10 00:00:16.100 --> 00:00:18.059 and practice this every day and start 11 00:00:18.059 --> 00:00:19.679 continuing to develop your skills. Don't 12 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:20.940 worry if you don't have all the shots 13 00:00:20.940 --> 00:00:22.480 right now. You don't have to. You're 14 00:00:22.480 --> 00:00:24.640 learning something new. This is exciting 15 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:25.960 because you're gonna have so many more 16 00:00:25.960 --> 00:00:27.719 tools in your toolbox, and what we wanna 17 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:29.739 do is continue to develop those tools so 18 00:00:29.739 --> 00:00:31.379 that when the need comes, and you've 19 00:00:31.379 --> 00:00:32.840 gotta hit that perfect shot, and hit a 20 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:35.140 little baby draw over a water hazard, 21 00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:37.380 it's gonna be in your repertoire. So how 22 00:00:37.380 --> 00:00:39.799 do we do this every day? Well, Tiger made 23 00:00:39.799 --> 00:00:41.640 the nine ball drill famous, and that's 24 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:43.560 exactly what we wanna do. It's the 25 00:00:43.560 --> 00:00:45.079 simplest way to practice these shots 26 00:00:45.079 --> 00:00:47.600 consistently. Now, The way that I like to 27 00:00:47.600 --> 00:00:50.140 personally do it is I like to do all 28 00:00:50.140 --> 00:00:52.219 three shots in a row while I'm learning 29 00:00:52.219 --> 00:00:53.280 something. Let's say that I've made a 30 00:00:53.280 --> 00:00:55.320 swing change, and I'm trying to get 31 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:57.340 comfortable with everything, or this is 32 00:00:57.340 --> 00:00:58.780 brand new to you, and you've never done 33 00:00:58.780 --> 00:00:59.299 this before. 34 00:00:59.960 --> 00:01:02.079 Don't bounce around. I want you to hit 35 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:03.579 all three of the same shots. So for 36 00:01:03.579 --> 00:01:08.420 instance, choose either three draws, the 37 00:01:08.420 --> 00:01:11.180 low draw, the standard draw, and the high 38 00:01:11.180 --> 00:01:14.920 draw, or choose all same trajectory. 39 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:17.319 Either one is okay to practice, but you 40 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:20.000 typically are gonna be stronger in one, 41 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:22.140 more so than the other, at any point in 42 00:01:22.140 --> 00:01:24.200 your career. So as you're practicing, you 43 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:25.900 may find that you're really struggling 44 00:01:25.900 --> 00:01:27.180 with hitting the high ball, and you keep 45 00:01:27.180 --> 00:01:28.519 chunking it, or what have you, because 46 00:01:28.519 --> 00:01:29.659 you're pushing against the shaft with 47 00:01:29.659 --> 00:01:31.439 your thumb, and hitting behind the ball a 48 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:33.000 little bit. Well, you'd wanna practice 49 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:35.299 all the high shots back-to-back, so you 50 00:01:35.299 --> 00:01:37.439 can kind of develop a feel. And when 51 00:01:37.439 --> 00:01:38.739 you're doing the nine ball drill, if you 52 00:01:38.739 --> 00:01:40.500 make a mistake, and it's just a horrible 53 00:01:40.500 --> 00:01:42.620 shot, don't advance to the next one. It's 54 00:01:42.620 --> 00:01:45.180 okay if you take some time, hit 20 or 30 55 00:01:45.180 --> 00:01:46.939 balls. You find your weaknesses, which 56 00:01:46.939 --> 00:01:48.280 really what this drill is telling you. 57 00:01:48.699 --> 00:01:50.640 It's not saying, hey, I need to be able 58 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:52.400 to step out there, and hit a high draw, 59 00:01:52.560 --> 00:01:55.439 low draw, medium draw, high cut, low cut, 60 00:01:55.500 --> 00:01:57.079 et cetera, and pull them off all 61 00:01:57.079 --> 00:01:59.019 successively back-to-back. It's very, 62 00:01:59.019 --> 00:02:00.140 very difficult to do. You'd have to be 63 00:02:00.140 --> 00:02:01.840 practicing all the time, and really have 64 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:03.599 everything being on its game. And even 65 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:04.719 Tiger, when he was doing this, couldn't 66 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:06.739 pull it off every single time. When he 67 00:02:06.739 --> 00:02:08.680 did, he felt like he was really on top of 68 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:10.759 his game. So it's not a high pressure 69 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:12.460 thing. You're not really scoring yourself 70 00:02:12.460 --> 00:02:14.439 in a way to say it's a pass or fail, or 71 00:02:14.439 --> 00:02:16.840 you're not any good, or whatever. It's 72 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:19.379 saying, hey, I'm actually pretty good at 73 00:02:19.379 --> 00:02:21.479 this high cut stuff. Maybe because I've 74 00:02:21.479 --> 00:02:22.759 been a slicer my whole life, but at least 75 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:25.240 I got a shot that I can pull out when I 76 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:27.360 need it. But maybe you stink at the other 77 00:02:27.360 --> 00:02:28.740 stuff. You can't hit a draw very well. 78 00:02:28.800 --> 00:02:30.360 That's okay. We're gonna keep going back 79 00:02:30.360 --> 00:02:31.840 and working on this draw videos that we 80 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:33.659 already showed you. And then you're gonna 81 00:02:33.659 --> 00:02:35.400 practice it when you go to your nine ball 82 00:02:35.400 --> 00:02:37.180 drill. So what I would do, 83 00:02:37.959 --> 00:02:39.800 I'm pretty comfortable at changing 84 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:41.800 trajectory at this point in my life. So 85 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:44.000 for me, I like to kind of challenge 86 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:45.919 myself when I feel like I've been playing 87 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:48.319 a lot and I'm on my game, I will actually 88 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:50.719 challenge myself and go from a low cut to 89 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:52.080 a high draw. That's a really hard 90 00:02:52.080 --> 00:02:52.599 transition. 91 00:02:53.379 --> 00:02:54.740 But if you really want to challenge 92 00:02:54.740 --> 00:02:56.400 yourself, you can do that. If you don't, 93 00:02:56.500 --> 00:02:58.039 that's okay. Let's just say we'll start 94 00:02:58.039 --> 00:02:59.900 out with, you know, we hit a low draw 95 00:02:59.900 --> 00:03:01.280 here. Just a little baby one. 96 00:03:04.180 --> 00:03:06.120 Perfect. Little three yard draw. 97 00:03:06.660 --> 00:03:08.599 Honestly, it was a little bit higher than 98 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:10.259 I wanted. It was kind of a standard draw, 99 00:03:10.319 --> 00:03:11.020 but it was okay. 100 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:12.460 And now I say, 101 00:03:12.979 --> 00:03:14.780 well, really wasn't exactly what I'm 102 00:03:14.780 --> 00:03:16.620 looking for. I'm gonna try to de-loft it 103 00:03:16.620 --> 00:03:18.520 a little bit more on this next one and 104 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:19.639 see if I can hit a little lower. 105 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:23.960 That one was a lot lower. So it was about 106 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:27.120 30% lower than the other one. Came down a 107 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:28.280 little bit steeper on it than I wanted 108 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:29.419 because I was really trying to de-loft 109 00:03:29.419 --> 00:03:31.139 it. That's okay. And then I would go to 110 00:03:31.139 --> 00:03:32.939 hit the high draw. And then I would say, 111 00:03:32.979 --> 00:03:34.800 okay, my draw is pretty good. The ball is 112 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:36.000 curving the way that I want it to. I'm 113 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:38.060 pretty happy with that. Now let's hit the 114 00:03:38.060 --> 00:03:39.919 cuts and now I'll hit high cut, low cut, 115 00:03:39.979 --> 00:03:42.379 et cetera. So as you work through those 116 00:03:42.379 --> 00:03:43.800 shots and then your standard shots, 117 00:03:44.600 --> 00:03:46.960 those nine balls will tell you what's 118 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:48.580 going on in your swing, what's tending to 119 00:03:48.580 --> 00:03:51.060 work and what's not. And this will give 120 00:03:51.060 --> 00:03:52.240 you a simple drill to kind of do a 121 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:53.300 checkup every day. You go out and 122 00:03:53.300 --> 00:03:54.659 practice as you're working on your shot 123 00:03:54.659 --> 00:03:55.259 shaping stuff. 124 00:03:57.139 --> 00:03:58.740 I'm going to go out and play. Maybe I 125 00:03:58.740 --> 00:04:00.979 won't favor that fade today. Maybe as I 126 00:04:00.979 --> 00:04:03.259 go out and play, if I have a shot where I 127 00:04:03.259 --> 00:04:05.039 really need to hit a cut here, but I'm 128 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:06.479 just, you know, on the range, it wasn't 129 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:08.300 quite there. That's okay. Just don't try 130 00:04:08.300 --> 00:04:09.780 to pull that shot off. But when you get 131 00:04:09.780 --> 00:04:12.080 done after the round, go back and hit a 132 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:13.719 few balls and start working on those cuts 133 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:15.599 as you do this. And you keep working 134 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:17.000 through this nine ball drill and all the 135 00:04:17.000 --> 00:04:18.839 last nine, 10 videos that we've gone 136 00:04:18.839 --> 00:04:20.519 through in our nine days to amazing ball 137 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:22.180 striking, you're going to start becoming 138 00:04:22.180 --> 00:04:23.639 a much more complete player.