When you miss a ball

usually undercuts from an aiming mistake or steering, I personally noticed. When I over cut it, I find i had a glitch in the stroke.
 
flip a coin 100 times

does a golfer miss to a certain side on a majority of his putts? no, imo. you could just adjust your aim if your missing consistently one way or the other. Someone who says you should overcut if you miss are just trying to compensate for throw.
 
Is it usually over cut or under cut?


For beginners usually under cut but it is not throw it is bad aiming, and stroke. throw is rare unless OB is close to cb or stunned. As players advance, they start over cutting and miss most of times because they think every shot throws.
 
For beginners usually under cut but it is not throw it is bad aiming, and stroke. throw is rare unless OB is close to cb or stunned. As players advance, they start over cutting and miss most of times because they think every shot throws.

Unless you are using an appropriate amount of outside english, a cut always produces some throw. It is significantly lower for a rolling cue ball than for a sliding cue ball but, for anything other than a shallow cut, could still certainly cause a miss on a longer shot if not taken into account.
 
I figured the answer was going to be undercut for most people....I'm really wondering why that is.

Cause you don't aim using the sides of your cue shaft, and you don't accelerate through the cue ball in your delivery. :thumbup:

Not doing the first thing results in fatter hits causing undercuts, and not doing the second thing hinders accuracy of delivery.


Edit ........ but no one will listen until that day when the light goes off in your mind. :)
 
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Undercut most of the time. The times I overcut are because I'm afraid of undercutting! :p
 
Mine goes in stages: some days I undercut everything and the next day I'm overcutting. I'm still waiting for that day when they're all going in.
 
I figured the answer was going to be undercut for most people....I'm really wondering why that is.

Typically most people who consistently undercut the same type of shots are subconsciously aiming at the back of the pocket instead of the pocket opening. from where the ball is sitting. Several videos have discussed this. You are hitting where you aim but your aim point is incorrect.
 
For a long time I spun every ball in with outside. Later I tried to fix that issue by not using the 'helping english' and learning how to pocket without sidespin. So for a while, everything was an undercut.

Now that I've adjusted, it's the opposite, I overcut everything because half the time I'm overcompensating for the undercut problem I used to have.
 
I heard Accustats did a study and found that among Pros, the majority (I forget the percentage) of missed balls are undercut. You can probably email those guys and ask them.
 
does a golfer miss to a certain side on a majority of his putts? no, imo.

Maybe not so good of an analogy. A golfer, due to uneveness/contours in the green have to "read" and process their thoughts to deal with the breaks/path their ball will take.

Not so in pool.

Maniac
 
Maybe not so good of an analogy. A golfer, due to uneveness/contours in the green have to "read" and process their thoughts to deal with the breaks/path their ball will take.

Not so in pool.

Maniac

I think if you narrow it down to straight in putts most golfers push them instead of pull them from not following through completely. You could say maybe amateurs tend to push them and pros tend to pull them. No statistics to back that up but would be interesting to find out.
 
For me?

Could be either but more likely to be over cut simply because I have this OCD pet peeve thingy about undercutting a ball.
 
Maybe not so good of an analogy. A golfer, due to uneveness/contours in the green have to "read" and process their thoughts to deal with the breaks/path their ball will take.

Not so in pool.

Maniac

maybe not, just saying if your undercutting a majority of the time you need to adjust. like a golfer would have to on a flat green
 
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