Remember, the pin is always in so it traps the ball’s energy between it and the sides of the hole before it reaches the bottom of the cup. Listen closely and you will always hear the ball hit the pin as it “slam dunks” into the hole. There isn’t much space available between the pin and sides so the ball has nowhere to go.

Many times the ball hits a little higher though and the pin acts as a deflector, thus the ball ends up many yards away from what would have been a great shot.