9 Shot Drill

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This is the famous nine-shot drill. So the nine-shot drill is one of the

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tried-and-true tested drills for really refining your face and path and low

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point control, basically understanding all your track-man parameters. So the

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nine-shot drill is basically taking the launch direction and creating a grid

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and

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you're going to have high, medium, low, and you're going to have draw straight

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fade. And there's really a variety of different ways you can use it. There's no

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one right way. You can try to hit low draw, low straight, low fade, medium draw

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,

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medium straight, medium fade, high draw, high straight, high fade. Or you could

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go

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all the draws, all the straits, all the fades, or you can do random. I've had

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juniors, you know, both of them practicing on the same thing, and we'll

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play tic-tac-toe where you've got to kind of hit the shots to block each other.

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There's a variety of ways you can use it. But the whole purpose is to refine

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your

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path and your face control so that you can adjust it close enough to make it

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draw, open enough to make it fade, or get it pretty close to hit it reasonably

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straight. And you can control the trajectory with your low point control

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and where your upper body is in space. So the easiest way to make the

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adjustments

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is just with setup changes. Moving the ball back will help it go low. Moving

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the

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ball forward will help it go high. Moving the ball back will make the path a

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little bit more into out and make it easier to draw it. Assuming you get the

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club face closed enough, moving the ball forward will help move the path left,

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which will make it easier to fade the ball and launch it higher, assuming you

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don't close the face too much. So anyway, there's a variety of different ways

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do it. We'll do it with simple setup changes and we'll do it with movement

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changes. I like to start with just kind of whatever your stock swing is and

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just

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hit a normal everyday shot. So for me, that one there was pretty much medium

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straight. So now if I want to induce a little bit more of a draw to it, I'm

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going

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to move the ball position slightly backward. Now, because I'm not really

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doing it in any particular order, this is likely going to launch low and we'll

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go for low straight. So we're gonna try not to close the face too much. So

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there

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we've got low. It did fade just a touch, but not enough for me to consider it a

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fade. I'll call that that was pretty straight. So now I'm going to stick with

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the low shot by moving it back, but now I want to make it fade. This is the low

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fade and the high draw are the two hardest shots. So the low fade, even though

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I've got it back, I have to make sure that I get the path outside in. So I'm

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gonna tend to try to decrease my axis tilt and almost keep my upper body more

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ahead and maybe even swing a little bit more outside to in with my arms. I can

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potentially even get a little bit more open with my body, but make sure that I

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still keep it back in order to launch it low. That was borderline medium. That

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didn't stay quite as low as I would want, but that did have a pretty good

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amount of fade to it. Okay, so next one I'm going to play the low draw. This is

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usually one of the easier ones, and you'll see that this makes a really good

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recovery shot. So this is a great drill or a great shot for you to practice. So

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I'm

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gonna play the ball a little bit more back in my stance, and then I'm just

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going

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to make sure that I get that club face closed to the path, and I'm gonna start

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with a little stronger grip to make it easier for that. So the club face is

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more

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turn to begin with, club's ball or ball is well back, and I'm gonna hit a

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really

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easy low sweeping draw. I could, when I'm working on refining this drill, I

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might

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hit a couple in each shot to try to either slightly vary the trajectory or

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slightly vary the amount of curve. Okay, now we're gonna go for some of the

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high

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ones. So for the high ones, I'm going to move the ball forward. The easiest one

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going to be the high fade, which is almost more like a flop shot, where I'm

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going to stay behind it, hold the face just a touch more open, and really turn

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my body to help keep that club face open, and what I'll find is that's gonna

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tend to launch more right than I could plan for, but it will launch high. So by

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because it launches a little bit more right in my mind, I usually have to aim

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well left of where I think I'm aiming. So even if I think I'm aiming just a

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little left, I'm gonna almost double that in my head so that it starts closer

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to

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where I want, because if the club face is open and I'm swinging outside in, it

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gonna launch right, curve right, and it's gonna launch high. So for practicing

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using

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this as usually a recovery shot, I have to make sure that I'm gonna have some

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clearance on the safe side, which is usually the left for my fade. Okay, now

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for the high draw, this is the tricky one for a lot of golfers, because you got

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to

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play the ball forward in order to get the launch up, but usually staying behind

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going to cause you to swing a little bit more outside in. So I'm gonna stay

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behind, I'm gonna get some decent access tilt, but I'm gonna use a good white

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movement so that I don't hit behind it or hit it fat. So high draw, got to make

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sure that the club face gets a little bit more closed in order to draw it, and

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that

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was pretty much high straight. So if I'm playing you got to call your shot, I

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just

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got an X, because I didn't actually get its draw. It got the high, that was the

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high straight, so now I'm gonna make sure that the club face is more closed. I

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going to play the ball forward, close it just a bit, and I'm gonna, just for

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good

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measure, get my swing path a little bit more from the inside. So there's the

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high,

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well five to seven-yard draw. So you can use this drill for really refining

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your

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face to path. That will give you the skill set to be able to adjust your low

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point on shots where the ball slightly above your feet, slightly below your

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feet. You've got to curve it, it really helps you refine your face to path.

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This

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can be a great warm-up as well, because it induces a little bit of

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random practice, and it requires you to make small adjustments, and what you'll

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find out is day-to-day, there'll be certain shots that are great, and there

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will be certain shots that are challenging. If you do it as a warm-up, it'll

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help you know which should be your go-to shots on that given day.