In this episode, Chris Trot “Trottie” will dive into the thought process of former UNC quarterback and TaylorMade Ambassador, Drake Maye as he shows his strategy off the football field and tests out some of the new TaylorMade Qi10 clubs . Maye, a highly touted American football quarterback who is entered in to the 2024 NFL draft class, is thought of by many to be one of the best quarterbacks coming into the league. Maye committed to play college football at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, choosing the Tar Heels over other offers from top programs across the country. His commitment to UNC marked a significant moment in his career, as he aimed to make an impact at the collegiate level. The Maye family has quite a resume in collegiate sports with his father and three brothers all playing Division I college sports. Drake now looks to take his athletic prowess to the course as a part of team TaylorMade.
Chris Trott, TaylorMade ambassador, is known for his instruction, dedication, and sportsmanship on the golf course. His passion for the game is unmatched and shown through his charismatic approach to the sport. His hit YouTube channel and social media, Trottie Golf, has spread widely across die hard golf enthusiasts who care about every detail of the game. Tee Time with Trottie (https://www.golfgalaxy.com/blog/a/tee-time-with-trottie) is a series of walk and talks on the course with a variety of professional athletes. Watch the entire series today at www.GolfGalaxy.com
What’s In Drake Maye’s Bag?
TaylorMade Qi10 LS Driver :
https://www.golfgalaxy.com/p/taylormade-qi10-ls-driver-23tymmtm24lsdrvtndrv/23tymmtm24lsdrvtndrv
TaylorMade Qi10 3 Wood:
https://www.golfgalaxy.com/p/taylormade-qi10-fairway-wood-23tymmtm24fwysrxxfwy/23tymmtm24fwysrxxfwy
TaylorMade P790 2 Iron:
https://www.golfgalaxy.com/p/taylormade-p790-irons-23tymmp79023gph5pirn/23tymmp79023gph5pirn
TaylorMade Qi Irons:
https://www.golfgalaxy.com/p/taylormade-qi-irons-23tymmtm24stl4pwxirn/23tymmtm24stl4pwxirn
TaylorMade Milled Grind 4 50 Degree Wedge:
https://www.golfgalaxy.com/p/taylormade-milled-grind-4-wedge-23tymmmlldgrnd4chwdg/23tymmmlldgrnd4chwdg
TaylorMade Milled Grind 4 56 Degree Wedge:
https://www.golfgalaxy.com/p/taylormade-milled-grind-4-wedge-23tymmmlldgrnd4chwdg/23tymmmlldgrnd4chwdg
TaylorMade Hi-Toe 3 Satin Chrome 60 Degree Wedge:
https://www.golfgalaxy.com/p/taylormade-hi-toe-3-wedge-22tymmht3cpprwdgxwdg/22tymmht3cpprwdgxwdg
TaylorMade Spider Tour DB Putter:
https://www.golfgalaxy.com/p/taylormade-2024-spider-tour-db-putter-24tymmspdrtr24rddptr/24tymmspdrtr24rddptr
hey this is tea time with trotty presented by Golf Galaxy today we’re at old chatam golf club it is the college town of my guest Drake May we’re about to get into it and watch him hit some absolute belters join along let’s go baby here with C the May the May and let me see what you got going here you had a fit in with the Golf Galaxy crew I see heck yeah he got me right you got the ls the low spin I swing hard so and you’ve got to be spinning it cuz you got an 8° and we’re going with the 70 G xlex on the shaft so this head just so you know and you know what I love about you you’re just a gamer I can see it itching to hit this already but this is the low spinning Bullet Head low spin so look there’s a lot of chaos that goes on in a football game you we’ve talked about that you could almost hit this at that tree that is on the left of the bunker the tallest one cuz we know you’re going to hit a slam cut down there we know you are and then if you’re worried about any technique or anything literally just take the college logo place it down now your only thought is to look at that logo and just send it at that St just send it that’s what I like just look at the color on the top of the ball send it well that’s a pretty damn good golf shot oh that so take a straight away look I’m going to go slightly lower T I’m bringing in the PX ball I’m going to put one of those triangles at the top I’m going to come back here and by no means am I an absolute pro at this but I can understand that if I can just hit one over that trap couple of swings see it swing see it okay just over the Trap and you know you’re looking at a cone so I knew you were going to hit a fade there you’ve talked about it a lot who knows what I’m going to hit it can be an AER assult ATT can at times but if I go with just the cone stand a bit wider same thought as you get out your own way so there you go now you asked me earlier before we got going you talked to me about um optimization of balls of ball flight that was basically your question your golf shot you hit there was using the twist face twist face gives you different angles on this beautiful face which going to be a color you like right with a college come on now it gives you the shot that you hit which was the cut that moved back and twist face helped you so that golf shot I hit I’m trying to hit higher in the blade these are the ones on the Range and I was hitting off the deck and then that one I hit higher in the blade into this wind you then get a higher launch with less Spin and it gives you that great cut through it yeah cut a little bit yours was a little low and trying to rise mine was a bit higher and Tumbl through it how do you stay in the present with the realization of what’s about to come there’s a lot of great stuff about to happen for you so how do you live in the moment you know one step at a time I think there’s so many times you can look forward and say hey where am I going to get drafted or where am I going or what city am I going to and instead of just enjoying it embracing it and saying hey this is stuff you dreaming about going to the combine and uh going to the draft and having pro day and all this this stuff you dreamed about and grew up watching as a kid so getting a chance to doing my own kind of my own world is is pretty pretty cool do you use any of that stuff when you’re in a golf environment there’s a lot of things here that you’re talking about present moment you know belief in what you’re doing do you use it in golf I think golf is just the mental side of it U being able to battle bad shots fix it on my own our ref to take a lesson you kind of one of the first people in my life besides my mom and dad trying to tell me how to swing a golf club so I just using that side and and golf such a great thing for me to get my line off football you know it’s something that you can you know take time to get away from football and all the stress and all the all the time you spend in football and get out Force like this and just just kicking with the ass okay mate so down Breeze I think we got 270 to the front clear this bunker that’ll leave you 90 I’m actually going to hit driver off the deck um and I’ll tell you why because it’s not going to get above this tree line Point number one and looking at where that flag is I want want to just hit it in that bunker front left hit it in that bunker yeah cuz that’s going to leave me a trap shot it looks like there’s a bit of green there and I’ve just got more confidence getting it closer out of that bunker than leaving myself 90 yards now if it cuts and goes right it’s going to leave me with an absolute horror shot which I don’t want so we’ll try not to overthink it try and do the Drake may move and just hit this baby down towards that trap and then stay positive if it doesn’t go where I want that’s the deal baby so mate I’m loving like notice how it doesn’t get over the tree line okay that’s Point number one and it’s left me with got in there about a 35 yard trap shot I’m happy now I didn’t want to be calling shots around here that’s how messing around I like that so what are you thinking P you got 190 to leave your 90 190 I’m going to hit a smooth seven I’m R S9 down there down Breeze uh right into Breeze but downhill so this is a same layup thing yeah yeah I mean I can you can hit one more if you want no I’ll be all right hit 700 by 200 where’s your target line bud I’m aiming right to the left of that trap to good lad yeah aim small Miss small aim small Miss small I like that that’s what we use okay good lad go for it a that’s got to go all F so here’s the deal you got away with it you’re using these irons right look at these beautiful they forgiveness to talk about the QR exactly I didn’t hit it good but look I ended up all right so the guys in Golf Galaxy have obviously talked to you well you’ve been listening so you’re hitting these irons now when I look at this as a fitter you can see that that’s not a bad divot in terms of depth you didn’t get it in your best strike you can see the toe came through a little longer so it was tow down a bit but the only thing I would have said to you and we’re going to hit another ball I would have said to you you got to be going you only this is the second shot on the first hole you got to be going here I think that’s where you got to be going let me Chuck your ball yeah 100% you got to be like like okay because look we don’t always hit our best shots remember I said on the t- box think about the cone think about like so now you’re going to hit it over your golf ball perfect and you know what else we’re going to do I’d love it if you could come back here this is what I want you where I want you to see it think about if you’re a painter right and this is your canvas and you go to the canvas to paint here every now and again you got to come back here to see it you can’t just live at the canvas in order to hit the best shot when I look at this canvas I see this and I see okay I want to hit it over that t so then you can come back here and all of a sudden you’ve made this so easy for yourself so when you step into the golf shot now with this iron that is just so forgiving now it’s line it up over the te line myself up build myself into the shot and then go just simple you don’t need anymore cuz you got it so line it up over the tee face goes in first good lad see it do your thing how good’s that how good is that felt all right there it’s beautiful now did we get our numbers right of course we did cuz you got trotty cadum for you top man good shot you know when uh you warm up is there ever like golf sometimes and you warm up and it just isn’t going the way you want want it does that ever happen in football a fair amount I think how you overcome that I think uh see there’s two ways to look at it I think you can uh kind of reset get video best thing about is getting video watching practice over watching quarterback individual is real watch it over or just sometime tough it out Thug it out and throw through it hey I’m figure it out until I ain’t leaving this field till I figure it out that’s kind of my Approach at golf so we’re giving ourselves room now with the decision also between front and back so your second shot we gave you room between left and right which you’ve done a fantastic example for now Club selection I’m saying don’t hit the 115 hit the 120 and just hit it smooth always hit your wedges smooth so whatever you think your 120 smooth bab not full not full I don’t need you blasting this let’s go with a little wedge little wedge 20 shot yeah I think you got to go real smooth on this flared on me a little bit good distance though it’s a good distance there you go would you say training and pro playing games and competing with older brothers was massive for your development oh you see I love being the youngest youngest of four boys so they’re all bullying me and all sorts of things growing up so uh just kind of had to find a way to you know push through as the the smallest and the youngest and uh you know find a way and you label some of that for your success do you think oh 100% yeah 100% this three old you know now WM A good athlet pleased that I challenge me I that’s the best thing about it so the hard part about this obviously not so tough for you but tough for me is I can’t see and you can’t either I mean I know you’re big we can’t see the landing area you know what I mean so you’ve got to get it in your mind what you want to do with it before you play it I’ve got the 56 just try and think about the speed play one out there might have flown a little far but it’s going to have the spin here’s the deal open the blade of that golf club and when yeah when you open it look at what happens you see the so of the mil grind four when I open it I reveal all this it’s called the flange okay so what you want if you look at my strike you can see the sand was I’m going to go on the high side of you Jesus making me feel even smaller you can see the sand there is all across the middle and the back you actually see the middle part is where it hit we don’t want too much Leading Edge we want more of this back bit so set up to it and then you’re going to open it now grip it so take your normal grip with an open blade now aim at little bit further left now what’s going to happen is you’re going to use the bounce like your daddy says a that was the sound that was peachy let’s get some spin on it now that was peachy that’s got some English on it where you from in England uh Liverpool Liverpool Liverpool on it right there you’ve got all all the skills but the tip I’d take away from the trap ball forward open blade reveal the mil Grime for bounce and then just do you yeah I’m learning from you today probably more than what you’re learning from me you’re at a ude awesome and I need to play golf and talk to myself how you talk to yourself because it’s easy to see why he’s so good at sport you don’t Harbor any any like negativity no and so I should just answer you yeah I’m brilliant because that’s how you answer me m I love it confidence baby confence put these bags down and hit aart so some days and again this is an interesting one I had this conversation with Ricky Fowler he uses a line on his picks ball right but we I think this pot moves and I know that my Miss tendency from data which again you could relate to in football but is on a left to right put is low side so low side would be the right on the yeah on a left to right so I would look at this having never hit this pot before and I if I can get that line and this has come a bit from Ricky to be where I think I want it cuz I think this pot probably breaks from here you say that’s too much I think it’s about right at it okay I like that and then what I’m doing to hit this and this is what Ricky said which I thought was great I might get into this and that line feels like it’s incorrect to me actually feels good today but some days it feels off and if I get in and have the line where I think it’s good and I think I’ve got the Potter good and hit it down there but that is my traditional Miss cuz it was short way of low on speed so then I would build okay I’m getting the pace maybe we overread that but you build knowledge then as to what is the perfect read so we might have too much read we know the pace now and then there you go you get it the third time perfect I gave you the line I gave you the pace that’s why I’m taking the credit for that great job there you have it that’s tea time with trotty that’s the PA five at Old Cham Golf Club see you in part two
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