Shoot the outside J
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I needed a name for this shot, and when I realized the shape of the shot when going out to the right is like a ‘J’, it was pretty easy. So how do you pull it off?
It’s tricky, and you won’t use it very often, but you should have it in your arsenal. First, figure out how far to the right you need the ball to end up (for this shot, you should need the ball to end up about a half-rotation right of target). So, pull the trackball back just slightly left of B, but no more than halfway between A and B. This tells the game you want it to end up right of target.
Then, shoot the ball forward out to 3! This tells the ball to begin its angle way out to the right. So, when you pull it off, you’ll see the ball take off out to the right, but it will soon straighten out and end up coming in straight ahead to your target (hence the ‘J’ shape)!
Usually, you can get the ball to a right target more easily by rotating right and hitting some form of C2 or B3, but the J shot is for situations where you’re threading trees or find yourself behind some obstacle and have an offset look at the pin or target.
Of course, the same theories apply to the backwards J shot too, where you need to hit it out left instead!
Be careful shooting the outside J with a right-to-left wind, because the ball will have a much harder time coming back against the wind! Also be wary of pulling back too far left of B, or else you might just see the shot behave like an A3 instead.
Here are several situations when you might see the pros shoot this shot:
1) You’re offset so you don’t want it to come back to straight
2) There’s a big break on the green
3) There’s a strong crosswind to the left and you need to “undercut” it so that it will ride the wind back left more than actually cut back toward the hole.
4) You have a shorter shot with a strong crosswind to the right. Here you might turn left once and shoot the outside J so that it fights the wind a little bit. It might make a 12 mph wind act more like a 6 mph wind which helps you have more control of the shot once it hits the green.
It’s not an easy shot to master, but give it a try sometime and see what happens!
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This shot is just a loose version of the schwerve. You think cause its March Madness you can go changing the names of shots? lol
You, just not right….if you do a ”’spinny” and a ”’fly by refund”’ the shot will be your’s in the end at the bottom of cup…and you will score a better score
Wow, I wish I had the control over my shots to actually pull this off. I am just grateful when I don’t slice the ball. I really enjoyed your instructions though. Maybe I will actually try it someday.
Geez, it’s like some of you didn’t even bother reading the post. Get with the program people.