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This video is the ball flight trident.

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So this is a drill for helping you with your skill making of shot shaping or controlling

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the path.

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I have two different kind of go-toes that I use for working on the path.

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One is the four square drill.

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And then two is using the alignment stick because not everyone wants to set up the whole

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four square system on the range when they're practicing, especially if you're practicing

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off mats.

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And not everyone wants to pull out a ruler and have things in every different direction.

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And sometimes four square allows you to coordinate it based on the negative space, which

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can be helpful for a lot of people.

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But trident focuses you to just follow the sticks and basically stay more in the positive

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space.

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So I've got the yellow sticks roughly in line with these flags.

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And then I've got two different alignment sticks.

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One going about 15 degrees to the right and one going about 15 degrees to the left.

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So on track man, if you start to get a curve of about a swing direction out about 15 degrees,

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you're going to get some pretty bigger pronounced curves.

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So what we're going to do is we're going to use this to help us calibrate a big inward

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out path and a big outward in path.

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Now when I go to hit these shots here for the camera, I'm going to stay in this setup position.

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Normally I would go back there and I would look from behind the yellow behind the target

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line to calibrate where I'm swinging each time.

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So essentially what I'm going to do is I'm going to hit some shots alternating from

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into out to out to back to center or vice versa.

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I might do a couple swings, but I'm going to bounce back and forth so my brain can get used

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to a feeling of an inside out versus an outside in path.

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I can do this in one of two different ways.

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One, I can take it just my normal swing and adjust my setup to get the path to go where

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I want it to be compared to the target.

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And two is I'm going to keep my setup the same and try and change my technique.

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I'd recommend if you're in season that you do more of the setup variety.

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But if you're doing some long term off season training and you're working on your swing

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technique, then changing the path with your swing could be a valuable skill.

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So first thing you want you to do is just take a normal just whatever your stock swing

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is and just kind of take a snapshot of where that divid is pointing.

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So right now my divid is pointing pretty close to straight to the yellow flags.

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So now I'm going to do the setup version first or the yellow stick I should have said

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not flags.

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So now I'm going to set up parallel to the blue stick and I'm going to close the face

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so it's a little bit left of if I had a blue stick extending out this way it would

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be a little bit left of that.

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Somewhere between the blue stick and the yellow stick depending on how much I want it

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to curve.

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So if that blue stick was going out here that club face is going to be just closed.

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If I'm new to curve and this feels weird then I can set up and I can just point the club

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face at the yellow stick and trust that I'm going to hit more of a polar even an over

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overdraw.

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So now I've got my body parallel to that blue stick.

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Club faces just a little bit more close than where I was on the first shot and now I'm

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going to try to make the same swing along the blue stick.

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If I do so what you'll see with the ball flight the divot is matching the stick and I have

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much more of a pronounced curve or more of a draw than I had on my first my stock swing.

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So now this one can be a little bit tougher for some golfers especially if you're used

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to swinging it out but I'm going to set up now with my body parallel to the purple stick

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and the club face slightly opens.

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I'm not quite pointing at the yellow stick but somewhere in between where the purple stick

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would extend in the yellow stick.

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Now if I make the same swing this will start left the divot was more in line with that purple

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stick this will start left and curve back towards my target.

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So that's what I would recommend messing around with in season if you're getting ready

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for a tournament is just making some simple setup changes to ultimately control your

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ball flight but the more advanced version is to do it in swing.

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So just to bounce back and forth we'll take another kind of stock swing.

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So that goes pretty much over the flags and now I'm not going to change my setup but

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I've got to get that same feeling and I've got to get that same relationship so I'm

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going to add a little extra Jackson 5 little extra arm shallow little extra motorcycle

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so that I can get the path coming more into out along the blue stick.

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So a little bit more thin but was able to get the ball flight pretty similar to when I did

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it set up wise just had a little bit of trouble with the low point.

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So now following the purple stick with the swing I'm going to get set up with the yellow

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and I'm going to swing a little bit more outside in and kind of have to hold it off in

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order to get it to curve back.

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So got that one to get pretty close to the same ball flight as when I did it with my swing.

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So those are kind of my three different options.

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As I said some people prefer the four square some people prefer the tried and the key

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is to figure out which of these setup stations work well for you when you're working on

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your path where your ball flight control and put in the reps practicing it the way we just

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set up here.