We mic’d up Will Zalatoris for a Tuesday morning practice session ahead of this week’s PLAYERS Championship. Watch and listen in as he talks through his approach to dialing in his wedge distances, his chipping technique, go-to Chipotle orders and more.
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00:00 – Heading to the Range
00:20 – Talking Wedge Practice and Technique with Vokey Wedge Rep Aaron Dill
03:55 – Earning His Degree
04:54 – Will’s Neighbors in Ponte Vedra
06:13 – Will’s Chipping Technique
09:00 – Go-to Chipotle Orders
To see you back watch your me I’m will what’s your name Michael Michael good to see you buddy hi good morning will how are you great nice shoes thanks I like the like the pants just try to that hitting numbers and then work my way up so 99101 with
The lobber yeah and then what about this one then I’ll start at 70 depending on the week too cuz like last week like you’re not spinning balls back but like this week probably start around 80 and then work it up to 120 okay um the thing it’s helped a lot is we
Started using the G like creating our own game on trackman and like we used to just do it where it was like every 10 where it’s like the 60 go from like 60 to 100 and then just keep working your way up and then have it randomized the thing that’s
Helped me a lot has actually been creating game where it’s been like 20 balls us a 60° between like we did do it at like 45 but it would like crush the numbers where it’s like you hit it 49 and it’s like gives you a score of
Too much like 60 like it just crush your score but like it just creating the feel that’s helped me a lot a lot of YouTube videos for the last eight months try to learn how to knockoff spin are you are you the kind of player that when you’re
Working on those shots is it is it like a know some some players work on a clock system where they have a a position where they’re like okay this is a 50 60 yard shot so or are you just instinctively trying to understand that 60 yards is just this speed this so like
Kind of I was saw like wedge one wedge two wedge three so it’s like wedge one is where it’s like the club goes back to parallel to parallel and then its arms parallel to parallel and then like 3/4 from there y but then like to knockof
Spin just like not using the hands CU I used to just being like super wiry like I could try to hit an 80 yard and like use my hands and then flip a 60 like 95 yards could go it could go anywhere yeah but like that drill especially has
Helped a ton with like using the body more to knock off spin lot of is just creating feel and Joel probably knows those numbers as well he does he ever lay you up to those spots like he just knows those are your sweet spot numbers
We just talk about where we want to go based on yeah now for sure before when like before I got good at that game like yeah I would try to hit it to like 70 to 75 and then you know with the 60 or like 91 92 and then now it’s like
Where do we want to go the one that’s funny for me and I’ve told this to Joel is like when a pin’s in a bowl I am like horrendous cuz it’s like oh yeah just throw it in the bowl and like and then I’ll like Land one pass and like rip it
Back 40t and so like he’s like all right hit this 92 land it right here like just cuz it’s in a bow like don’t get lazy or whatever but got you could you can to focus when it’s in a so many BS like and it was
Like the first like three weeks we work together like a pin would be in a bowl and it hit to 40 ft I’m like what are you doing I’m going go through the back okay give me a a top pin with that uh 104 104 see
104 all the way through the two clubs till to 52 what do you do anything like fishing or anything you have any other hobbies that you do graduated nice it was pretty great doing the uh had to couple career planning classes with like freshman and
They’re all like do I want to be a you know blah blah blah like oh I want to be a lawyer and I’m like yeah I got a job this is my ninth Year trying to graduate yeah like do you ever like hey can you maybe fix this on your resume yeah I’ll
Get right on that yeah hey persistence is key it’s good to see back thanks brother so there’s a the house who rented got like six chickens in his backyard but it was so funny cuz house is like awesome walk out the side door and I look over and there’s just six
Chickens staring at me underneath a trampoline I’m like I mean I know I they are they are large large chicken that house is Si it’s F not at all I was Austin this morning here you dialed in yeah it was awesome kind of loosened up my right hip a little
Bit range is great so no complaints yeah find it so funny how like know Josh teaches like two draws and cuts chipping yeah used to love to like draw my chips and now it’s like couldn’t pay me to try to draw one just get the little
Cutters I mean it makes no sense cuz like the draw should be like just Dro it back keep left and then throw it under so you used to mostly hit draws yeah po gosh well even like the first like year or two we started working yeah
And like I didn’t even do it into the grain right that was where like the first year at Augusta where he was like getting me ready he was like had me hit like high hook Spinners like teaching me how to do it he’s like yeah this is a huffy here
This is a Hy there and like I only worked with him for like a year or two I was like okay I have a lot to learn so it like kind of stays on the face a little bit longer yeah then it’s like I think just because I’ve
Got so much less hinge now I could just stand here like it as high as I want I can just yeah and I can just spin it more and the wise words of Davis Riley why nip it when you can chunk the crap out of it Chu and run
That chipping was always weird because I grew up in the Northwest where you played like ball in hand for 5 months out of the year like teing everything up well that was the thing in college was like you know we’d play off that Carolina Clay you’d be on like dead
Bermuda and I’m like coach my chipping is terrible and then like our first event we’d always go to like Cabo and it’d be like like Sandy Bermuda but it was always like heat up and I’m like oh I’m good never mind I got it I don’t know if I would call it
Strong what your go to Chipotle order there Troy yeah that’s actually a good question cuz I had to I had to uh order the other night and I kind of choked on what I was going to your go what’s your what’s your what’s your Wednesday at 2:30 order yeah healthy or non healthy
Is there a difference yeah cuz is it matter whether you go like if I’m in a healthy you go chicken or if you go like carnus no if I’m eating healthy I’ll get just like a basic burrito that’s pretty clean like 800 calories if I’m going
Crazy I get a bowl double meat gu but wouldn’t the healthier be to go bowl without the tortilla no because the bowl by the time they put the extra rice you get double me you get guac you get queso you get chips you get a large drink you
Oh that’s it all comes with that that’s right I forgot it’s a number six if I remember right right
