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Bunker Shot Golf Tips
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In this video, PGA Professional Nick Drane explains the keys to playing the bunker shot
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Hi my name is Nick Drain. I'm a PGA professional and a master fitting
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specialist here at the Titleist Performance Center at Woban. In this
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video we're going to talk about the greenside bunker shot. The greenside
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bunker shot, typically we're going to use our most lofty club in our bag, our
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sand iron, anywhere from 56, 58 or 60 degrees and loft. It's the only shot in
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golf we're actually not trying to hit the golf ball. We're actually going to
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hit the sand behind the ball. I'm going to demonstrate to you ways that we can do
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that. A lot of common mistakes that I see golfers make in the bunker is that again
00:35
they are trying to help the ball out of the bunker through an incorrect setup
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which doesn't allow them the best opportunity to get the ball out of the
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sand. Quite often I see golfers trying to move back on the golf ball, so too much
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weight on their back foot trying to lift it. As I mentioned earlier we're actually
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going to hit the sand not the ball. That's what's going to propel the ball
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into the air onto the green. Here's an example of how I see a lot of golfers
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make a few mistakes in the bunker. They don't shuffle their feet into the sand, the
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ball is too middle of the stance and with regards to the grip they take their
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grip and then they open the clubface which in theory isn't actually doing
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anything and then they try and lift the ball out of the bunker. You can see there I
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didn't actually contact the sand behind the ball and lift it out. Too much golf
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ball and it's gone way too far. A couple of key things in your setup you need to
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pay particular attention to to allow you to be successful out of the bunker.
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Firstly let's talk about the stance width. So a nice wide base, shuffle the feet
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into the sand that's going to lower you into the ground. One of the key things, so
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I've already got a very lofty golf club in my hand. What I'm going to do is I'm going to
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open the clubface slightly and then take my grip. The leading edge of the
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golf club is going to point towards my left toe. One thing you'll see in my
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setup is that my left foot is turned out slightly. That's going to allow me to put
02:07
a little bit more weight on my left side, maybe 60-40 favouring the left and make it
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easier as I turn through. My ball position, as I mentioned earlier, this is the shot
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where I'm going to hit the sand, not the golf ball. So in theory I'm moving the
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ball a couple of inches ahead of where I would ideally have the ball in my stance
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if I was playing off the grass and I'm going to draw a nice line about a club
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head width inside my left heel as a reference. I'm now going to focus on
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hitting that line in the sand, not the golf ball itself. My swing itself I'm going to
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make a three-quarter backslink and then make sure that I have all my weight
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finishing towards the target and hopefully it'll come out like that.
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I'll see you next time.
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