Day 9: 9 Ball Shot Shaping Drill
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In this Day 9 capstone video, you'll learn Tiger's "9 Shots" drill, which will help you master each combination of trajectory (high/normal/low) with curvature (left/straight/right). I'll even walk you through how to score yourself with this drill so you can tell: What parts of your ball striking need the most work; What your "go to" shot ought to be; How you're improving over time. Check out the video now because you can have fun while mastering shotmaking!
All right, so by now you guys are ball flight masters, or at least well on your way.
You know all the little secrets and tips from the pros that allow them to more consistently pull off shots that look like they're the impossible.
You're learning all their little secrets, And now I'm gonna show you how to put this into practice so that you can play this and practice this every day and start continuing to develop your skills.
Don't worry if you don't have all the shots right now.
You don't have to.
You're learning something new.
This is exciting because you're gonna have so many more tools in your toolbox, and what we wanna do is continue to develop those tools so that when the need comes, and you've gotta hit that perfect shot, and hit a little baby draw over a water hazard, it's gonna be in your repertoire.
So how do we do this every day? Well, Tiger made the nine ball drill famous, and that's exactly what we wanna do.
It's the simplest way to practice these shots consistently.
Now, The way that I like to personally do it is I like to do all three shots in a row while I'm learning something.
Let's say that I've made a swing change, and I'm trying to get comfortable with everything, or this is brand new to you, and you've never done this before.
Don't bounce around.
I want you to hit all three of the same shots.
So for instance, choose either three draws, the low draw, the standard draw, and the high draw, or choose all same trajectory.
Either one is okay to practice, but you typically are gonna be stronger in one, more so than the other, at any point in your career.
So as you're practicing, you may find that you're really struggling with hitting the high ball, and you keep chunking it, or what have you, because you're pushing against the shaft with your thumb, and hitting behind the ball a little bit.
Well, you'd wanna practice all the high shots back-to-back, so you can kind of develop a feel.
And when you're doing the nine ball drill, if you make a mistake, and it's just a horrible shot, don't advance to the next one.
It's okay if you take some time, hit 20 or 30 balls.
You find your weaknesses, which really what this drill is telling you.
It's not saying, hey, I need to be able to step out there, and hit a high draw, low draw, medium draw, high cut, low cut, et cetera, and pull them off all successively back-to-back.
It's very, very difficult to do.
You'd have to be practicing all the time, and really have everything being on its game.
And even Tiger, when he was doing this, couldn't pull it off every single time.
When he did, he felt like he was really on top of his game.
So it's not a high pressure thing.
You're not really scoring yourself in a way to say it's a pass or fail, or you're not any good, or whatever.
It's saying, hey, I'm actually pretty good at this high cut stuff.
Maybe because I've been a slicer my whole life, but at least I got a shot that I can pull out when I need it.
But maybe you stink at the other stuff.
You can't hit a draw very well.
That's okay.
We're gonna keep going back and working on this draw videos that we already showed you.
And then you're gonna practice it when you go to your nine ball drill.
So what I would do, I'm pretty comfortable at changing trajectory at this point in my life.
So for me, I like to kind of challenge myself when I feel like I've been playing a lot and I'm on my game, I will actually challenge myself and go from a low cut to a high draw.
That's a really hard transition.
But if you really want to challenge yourself, you can do that.
If you don't, that's okay.
Let's just say we'll start out with, you know, we hit a low draw here.
Just a little baby one.
Perfect.
Little three yard draw.
Honestly, it was a little bit higher than I wanted.
It was kind of a standard draw, but it was okay.
And now I say, well, really wasn't exactly what I'm looking for.
I'm gonna try to de-loft it a little bit more on this next one and see if I can hit a little lower.
That one was a lot lower.
So it was about 30% lower than the other one.
Came down a little bit steeper on it than I wanted because I was really trying to de-loft it.
That's okay.
And then I would go to hit the high draw.
And then I would say, okay, my draw is pretty good.
The ball is curving the way that I want it to.
I'm pretty happy with that.
Now let's hit the cuts and now I'll hit high cut, low cut, et cetera.
So as you work through those shots and then your standard shots, those nine balls will tell you what's going on in your swing, what's tending to work and what's not.
And this will give you a simple drill to kind of do a checkup every day.
You go out and practice as you're working on your shot shaping stuff.
I'm going to go out and play.
Maybe I won't favor that fade today.
Maybe as I go out and play, if I have a shot where I really need to hit a cut here, but I'm just, you know, on the range, it wasn't quite there.
That's okay.
Just don't try to pull that shot off.
But when you get done after the round, go back and hit a few balls and start working on those cuts as you do this.
And you keep working through this nine ball drill and all the last nine, 10 videos that we've gone through in our nine days to amazing ball striking, you're going to start becoming a much more complete player.
Gary C
Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
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Chris (Certified RST Instructor)
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Craig (Certified RST Instructor)
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Steven (Certified RST Instructor)
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