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Most of us, if faced with a ball in a box from the tee box would hack that box to pieces, but Lake Success Golf Club's pro Robert Mistretta can hit this ball straighter and farther than most of us can off a tee.

It's just one of several trick shots he honed while in college in order to earn some extra spending money.

"On the weekends I had some extra time and went to certain country clubs and ask the pro if you could help a struggling college kid out and if I could make some extra money entertaining the members making a small wagers," says Mistretta. "So I went to different country clubs and it actually paid off a little bit my four years of college. I'd first start off by hitting shots off my knees, off a box. I'd hit off different shafts and I get someone from the audience to get out and inevitably they hit the shaft instead of the golf ball."

Mistretta says he rarely lost a wager. To help us out a bit in this tough economy, he shares with NY1 the secret to possibly the most impressive shot in his repertoire. Next time there's a 50-feet-tall tree between you and the green, you can hit around it relatively easily and maybe win five bucks off your friend.

"Everybody's stuck behind that tree at some point and I'm here to tell you there's a different way to try to hit it," says Mistretta. "So when your buddies are not around and you're having some fun put another golf ball behind yours, just take a swing with a sand wedge, hit it as hard as you can and see how high you can get it to go. Most of the time it launches vertically and comes down vertically and stops right on the green. The first one actually just runs up the ball in front of it and launches it on a higher angle and just drops and stops."

The hardest part of this shot is deciding whether or not to
take your friend's money or to take the par or the double bogey you should've gotten.