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Joe 'The Pro' Ferguson and Dan Parker run through the five shots every golfer needs to score well on the course while offering some useful tips on how to play them successfully.
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00:00Joe, I've been thinking a lot about golf recently, as I always do.
00:04Aside from the stock shots we always go and practice, right?
00:06There's a lot of shots that appear on the golf course that you never practice
00:10but that are really vital to keeping a round going and keeping a score going.
00:13Does that seem fair?
00:15I would say that's fair. There's some essential skills you need to master to be good at golf.
00:19Should we go and find some out on the course today and help some people out?
00:22Let's do it.
00:30Well, there comes points in rounds, doesn't there, and this is a good example here.
00:33We're on the 17th hole at Kedleston Park, got a good round going,
00:36and I'm looking down the fairway and there's a lot of trouble either side.
00:39Left and right, it's very tree-lined, isn't it?
00:41It is very tree-lined, but it could be a really good opportunity
00:43because it's a short-ish par-5 if we can find the fairway.
00:46So, aside from your normal stock drive that you might hit and practice all the time,
00:50I think it's really important to have a fairway-finding shot, if you like,
00:55and I'm going to demonstrate mine to you.
00:57There are other ways which we might get into in a second,
01:00but I'm just going to demonstrate what I do when I really need to hit a fairway.
01:03Okay, go on.
01:04A couple of little things I change at setup.
01:06Firstly, I peg the ball down just a little bit.
01:09Why do you do that?
01:10When I'm pegged up a lot, it helps me sweep up on the ball
01:13and maybe hit from the inside of it and get a nice, powerful draw.
01:17That can increase my dispersion a little bit, so when it's pegged down,
01:20my attack angle comes down a little bit and I start to sort of squeeze a little fade out
01:26and then I know the ball is going to turn from left to right.
01:29So that gives me the confidence to aim just a little bit left,
01:32knowing the ball is going to squeeze out a little bit.
01:35And then from there, all I do is choke down on the club about half an inch.
01:39I stand a tiny bit closer to the ball because of that.
01:42So because I'm closer to the ball, I've got a better chance of centering the contact.
01:46I've then narrowed my stance a tiny bit.
01:48So I've got a slightly smaller radius of swing from the choking down
01:52and a slightly tighter swing radius from having a slightly narrower stance.
01:56So all that's kind of doing, it's inhibiting my speed a little bit admittedly.
02:00So I'm taking a little bit off it, but exactly that's okay for this shot.
02:03The priority here is finding the fairway.
02:05And you're more assured of what shot shape you're going to get.
02:08100%.
02:09So you can know where to aim and where to find the fairway.
02:11Absolutely.
02:12And just pegging it down really helps me know that this ball is going to squeeze from left to right.
02:16So it gives me the confidence to aim up the left.
02:18So I'll choke down again, like I said.
02:19Show us the way then, son.
02:20Half an inch.
02:22I'm aiming just inside that tree there, slightly narrower stance than normal.
02:26And I'm just going to make my smooth little golf swing.
02:30Now it's going to bleed off that tree nicely.
02:32Just inside it perfectly.
02:35That's a good example.
02:37So really tight.
02:38So really tight.
02:39So it's just past that tree.
02:40And now I'm in really good shape to make a birdie.
02:45Right then, Joe.
02:46Found you in your spiritual home.
02:47The trees.
02:48Bit harsh, but yes.
02:49Probably accurate.
02:50I know we just talked about fairway finders.
02:52Obviously sometimes you miss that.
02:53And this is a shot, the punch out from the trees, that you just never, well I don't anyway,
02:58practice, do you?
02:59You don't go to the range and start punching five irons off your back foot or whatever.
03:02I see a lot of complacency on this shot.
03:04And I play a lot of pro-ams and play a lot of guys who sort of walk into this scenario
03:08and just see it as a nominal shunt forward.
03:10Correct.
03:11But it's actually far more complicated than a shot from the middle of the fairway
03:14where you're thinking about your yardage and the wind.
03:16There's actually a lot more going on here to think about.
03:18Don't you think?
03:19So let's do strategy first then.
03:20And we'll come onto execution in a minute and how to practice it.
03:22So let's talk about this situation we found ourselves in.
03:24Yeah.
03:25It's pretty standard.
03:26So I've cut it too much off this tee.
03:27I'm in the right trees, but it's, like I said, a little bit more complex.
03:31We've got the green is actually over there behind this set of trees.
03:34Yeah.
03:35But I've got the fairway here to the left and I've got a couple of options.
03:38To the right of this big oak tree there, I've probably got a five or six yard gap.
03:42Can't see that, do you?
03:43It's doable in the right situation, but is it at a percentage play?
03:47Probably not.
03:48Even if I hit that gap from a width point of view, there's some overhanging limbs further up that I've got to keep it under.
03:54Yes.
03:55And I'm only really gaining around 20 to 30 yards.
03:57So I think in this scenario, it'd be more prudent to go through this larger gap to the left.
04:02We've still got some issues there, though, to think about.
04:05And I always start with a line.
04:06Whenever you get to a shot, you've got to assess what is possible from the line.
04:10I've got a reasonably clean line here, so I can think of a lot to do.
04:13We've got some quite hard panned stuff, which you tend to find in these trees,
04:17which we'll talk about in the execution in a minute.
04:19But this is a very different shot to that, for example.
04:24So you've got to work out where you are first.
04:26So you've got to work out where you are and work out what's possible.
04:28We're going to base it on a reasonably clean line here.
04:31So the next thing you need to think about is how much you've got to carry
04:35and how much run out you've got the other side.
04:37And that will determine the club that you're going to pick.
04:40So you've told me before that you quite often just walk in,
04:42you take your least lofted iron, your five iron?
04:44It's always five iron.
04:45It's just I go, yeah, five iron, whatever.
04:47But when that happens, if this rough is quite thick, which it is here, it's quite grabby,
04:51you've got to get that five iron carrying that rough.
04:54Otherwise, you're going to stop in the rough here, not have a shot to that green
04:57because these trees will impinge you.
04:59But if you carry that rough, it's going to hit that fairway and keep running and running and running
05:04and possibly run into the trees the other side.
05:06So I need to know here, I've got these over that I've got to keep it under because if it pops up too high
05:11and I pull out a nine iron or an eight iron, pops up too high, clips that, it's going to land there
05:15and I'm still in the same problem.
05:16So I've got to pick the right club that's going to give me enough carries to get past this rough
05:19but stay under those trees.
05:20And from experience, I feel that's a six iron for me.
05:23So you've got to weigh up where you want to be playing your next shot from.
05:27There's a lot to think about.
05:28Like I said, it's far more complex than just a shot from the middle of the fairway
05:31but people treat it like just a nothing shot and just walk up and shunt it and can still be in trouble.
05:36So it's really key to give it the attention it deserves.
05:39Pick the right club and pick your right strategy.
05:42Sorry, Joe, it turned out impinged was a word.
05:44I knew it was.
05:45So I've learnt a word, now teach us how to play this shot.
05:47Good idea, Dad. Good segue.
05:49So first things first, from a technical point of view, this shot's all about coaching.
05:52And controlling the flight.
05:54So the first thing I always like to do is choke down on the club.
05:57And it will always depend on the type of shot we're trying to play.
06:00All of these punch outs are different and they should be treated differently.
06:03They should be treated individually.
06:05If I had a little bit further to go, I might need to choke up a little bit more than I normally would for this shot
06:11because I need a bit more carry.
06:12So experience and practice is going to teach you that.
06:15Secondly, visualisation is a big key here.
06:18I need to get behind this.
06:19I need to look and I need to see the ball fly.
06:21I need to play a little picture in my mind of how this ball is going to take off.
06:25And then with my eyes and get that good message through my eyes to my brain,
06:29that should send the signals which put me in a good set up position.
06:32Yeah, that makes sense.
06:33Yeah, I like that.
06:34So it should be an athletic thing.
06:35So once you've got that visualisation of where you need to go,
06:37we've choked down on the club.
06:39The ball is going to be a little bit back because I need to keep it down here.
06:42How far back do you have it?
06:43It looks like front, back heel.
06:45Again, it's all shot dependent.
06:46People want kind of absolutes for these shots.
06:48Yes, please.
06:49No.
06:50But unfortunately, golf isn't an absolute kind of thing.
06:52If I need to carry it a little bit further, the ball is going to be slightly forward than this shot
06:56where I need to keep it very, very low.
06:57So how far forward and backwards in the stance it is depends on what shot.
07:01How far you need to carry it.
07:02How far I need to carry it.
07:03How much room you have up here.
07:04How much room I have beneath those trees.
07:06So for this particular shot, and that's why we're saying you need to practice these shots.
07:10It will seem odd that say you're going to go to the practice ground and hit bumps and punches
07:14and practice your punch out game, but it is key and it will save you shots.
07:18So if you start to understand your ball position relative to certain flights,
07:22it's going to really help you in this situation.
07:24And that's what I mean about your eyes will start to send the right messages to your brain
07:28and that set up will become more automatic.
07:30I've learnt a bit, show us how it's done.
07:32I'm going to grab a club.
07:36Well executed, sir.
07:38And that is going to go...
07:40That's good.
07:42Deep enough in the fairway.
07:43Just for the record, we hit a ball early.
07:45You just hit that ball.
07:46So Ty, she's done the exact same shot.
07:48You're welcome.
07:49It's carried far enough to go under those branches, but far enough so you can go and hit the green.
07:52I'm going to have a go now because you've taught me a lot today.
07:54You're choking down.
07:55I've pulled the six iron.
07:56You've seen the shot.
07:57I've sent messages to my brain.
07:59And you've sent the right messages because that's just made the fairway.
08:02You're in good shape.
08:03Not my finest, but again, I've got to go practice that.
08:04So, hey, I've got the fundamentals now.
08:05Go and practice it.
08:06It's a really useful shot to have.
08:08All right, next up, Joe.
08:09Really important shot.
08:10It's the chip and run.
08:11The bump and run.
08:12Now, I think we get it a lot on the golf course.
08:13I think a lot of people do practice this, but it's an essential shot.
08:15It's going to save you a lot of shots if you get up and down.
08:17How do we perfect it?
08:18How do we practice it?
08:19The floor is yours.
08:20Thank you, Dan.
08:21That's very kind.
08:22There are a couple of ways of doing it, and I've got a simple way, I think.
08:23Someone like a Shane Lowry might disagree with this.
08:24So, Shane Lowry, for example, he's a guy that likes to play all of these shots around the
08:25green with his 58-degree wedge.
08:26And he makes a lot of technical changes, putting the ball back, putting the ball back,
08:27putting the ball back, putting the ball back, putting the ball back, putting the ball back,
08:28and putting the ball back.
08:29So, it's the chip and run.
08:30It's the chip and run, the bump and run.
08:31Now, I think we get it a lot on the golf course.
08:32It's the chip and run.
08:33How do we perfect it?
08:34How do we practice it?
08:35The floor is yours.
08:36Thank you, Dan.
08:37That's very kind.
08:38There are a couple of ways of doing it, and I've got a simple way, I think.
08:41Someone like a Shane Lowry might disagree with this.
08:43So, Shane Lowry, for example, he's a guy that likes to play all of these shots around
08:47the green with his 58-degree wedge.
08:49And he makes a lot of technical changes, putting the ball back, hands forward, changing
08:54things around to produce different flights and different outcomes.
08:57My personal opinion on it, and a lot of other pros, we've got a bag full of clubs here.
09:01We've got potentially 10, 11, even 12 clubs we could play bumper mums with, including
09:06three-wood, for example.
09:08So, what I like to do, I have a formula in my brain.
09:11I like to, number one, my key is to get the ball on the green as quickly as possible
09:15and get it rolling as quickly as possible.
09:18So, to do that, you need to know what club's going to produce the right amount of carry
09:22to get it just on the green and then produce the right amount of roll.
09:25So, I kind of work on a formula basis.
09:27I like to have a 50-50 club, which I know in normal conditions, flat conditions on around
09:33a 10-stimp green will provide me with 50% of carry and 50% of roll.
09:38For me, that's my pitching wedge.
09:40Okay.
09:41Then I can work in the variables around that.
09:43If the green's firmer, those percentages might change a little bit.
09:46So, from there, then your 9-iron, a 60-40.
09:49Correct.
09:50Sorry, 40-60 and so on?
09:52Basically.
09:53Pretty much.
09:54So, it's actually the other way.
09:55So, 9-iron is less loft.
09:57So, it would be 40% carry and 60% roll.
09:59Keep up, Dan.
10:00Thank you, Professor Hawkins.
10:01You're very welcome.
10:02So, from there, like I say, factor in the variables, whether the greens are firm,
10:05whether the greens are soft, whether we're going uphill, whether we're going downhill.
10:09But, as I said, number one key, get the ball on the green as quickly as possible and get it rolling.
10:12And it's worth, then, for people watching, going and practising and figuring out what your 50-50 club is
10:17or what your 40-60 club is, because it's going to be different to yours, isn't it?
10:19Absolutely.
10:20It could well be.
10:21But, I'd say that's the key, is practising that.
10:22Because the technique, which we'll talk about now, isn't actually that complicated.
10:26No.
10:27It's a fairly, I like to think of it as just an extended putt.
10:30So, what we're talking about here, I have a ball that's fairly centred,
10:33maybe even just slightly forward in my stance.
10:35Okay.
10:36I try and keep the shaft pitched up a little bit higher, sort of more in the lie angle of a putter.
10:41And then it's literally just a rock of the shoulders.
10:43And I'm trying to get this club just coming in dead level with the ground and brushing the turf.
10:47I don't want any sort of pinchy strikes when I'm taking divots.
10:50Joe, show us this.
10:51Why have you picked eight iron?
10:52I'm going to have a go as well, actually.
10:53Talk us through it.
10:54So, eight iron-wise, so I'm looking here and I'm thinking we've probably got about 20-25% of carry here,
11:00and then maybe 75-80% of roll.
11:03Okay.
11:04Going up quite a steep slope, but we've played on these greens today and they're relatively quick.
11:09So, it's an experience thing and that's where the practice has to come in.
11:13Yes.
11:14As I said, it's not necessarily you need to be grooving a lot of technical practice with the bump and run,
11:18because it's quite a simple technique.
11:19It's more understanding those relationships between what club you pick and what roll and carry percentage it will take.
11:25Very good.
11:26So, for me here, based on my experience, I fancy eight iron is the right club,
11:30and I'm not looking at necessarily an exact blade of grass or something.
11:33I'm just looking at an area which is around two to three feet on the green.
11:37Try and land it in that area and get it rolling the rest of the way.
11:40And like I said, nice neutral stance.
11:44Look at my landing area.
11:45Rock my shoulders.
11:47Get it just going two or three feet on the green.
11:49That's barely, yeah.
11:50And that's just going to cuddle up pin high.
11:52Pushed it a little bit, but it's dead pin high.
11:53I've probably got, what, four or five feet there for par.
11:56Yeah.
11:57It's eight out of ten, but it's a very safe, fail-safe shot.
12:00Interesting. And this is just something, again, get yourself to the chipping green and practice,
12:03because it's a shot I don't practice with an eight iron or whatever club you might have used.
12:07So, once you've got that formula you've just said, go and practice it,
12:10because you can work out the relationship with the ball and the face, how quick it comes off.
12:14Okay, so a little bit central, bit of shaft vertical.
12:17Just brush the grass.
12:20Lovely.
12:21Three or four feet on.
12:22Steady now.
12:23You've absolutely showed me up there.
12:24I've nailed that.
12:25Steady now.
12:26I'm inside the pro.
12:27I'm inside the pro below the hole as well, mate.
12:29Well, I mean, it's a good shot.
12:30It just shows what an excellent teacher I am.
12:32What a great teacher you are.
12:33So take all of that there, go practice it, go work out that ratio, the relationship with the ball,
12:37with some of these different irons around here, and you'll be up and down more often than not.
12:45Next then, Joe, on the green putting.
12:48And now I'm going to give us something pretty basic here, but it's something that you need to master,
12:52you need to get right, practice it alongside everything else.
12:54It's just holding out from really short range.
12:56How do we do it?
12:59I put the ball in the hole, obviously.
13:01I meant more, how do we practice it?
13:03The process of getting better at it, I assume, is what you're asking.
13:06That's what I'm getting at.
13:08So, yeah, I mean, it's something, again, I see it a lot.
13:11Playing in pro-ams, playing with amateur partners, miss a lot from this range.
13:14And I think there's a couple of things I'd like to talk about.
13:17Number one, there's just some fundamental technical issues.
13:20And one of those technical issues, I think, is centering strike.
13:24I see so many people hitting off the heel, toe, low or high on the face.
13:27And what happens when that takes place is the ball doesn't come off at the pace it's supposed to.
13:33And if you've got a breaking putt, it can veer offline because it's not going to have enough momentum to stay online
13:38because you don't have the same energy from strike.
13:40Also, on sort of less high MOI putters, heel and toe strikes can kind of open and close the face a little bit.
13:47So it's really important to get centred contact.
13:49And one of the best drills for that is the Tiger Woods drill you might have seen a few times over the years.
13:54So he does it as part of his warm-up all the time when he's playing.
13:58Just getting a couple of tee pegs.
14:01Probably best to start with a little bit of margin for error.
14:03You've given yourself no margin for error there, but you are the pro.
14:06I've been a bit tight on myself here.
14:08And it's just simply find a nice straight putt and start stroking putts and trying to miss those tees
14:13so we centre in contact.
14:14And that's just a really good habit, whether it's part of practice or warm-up or both.
14:20Just learning to centre that contact is absolutely critical.
14:23And I would heartily recommend a good five or ten minutes a day on that.
14:27Yeah.
14:28And you like to talk about the computer up here.
14:30Yeah.
14:31And I think seeing the ball go in the hole a lot, whether that's before a round or practising,
14:34it's good vibes up there.
14:35Good subliminal messages, yeah.
14:36Subliminal messages, yeah.
14:37Gives confidence and gives everything you need to say.
14:38And that works on longer putts as well, just striking the putt out of the middle.
14:40100%, yeah.
14:41So it helps your hole in.
14:42Sorry, go on, mate.
14:43So yeah, another one on that if you do want to do it from further away.
14:46Another one of my drills, I do a bit with a putting mirror.
14:49Another one I like to set up, maybe double this, maybe six feet.
14:52Find a straight uphill putt, relatively flat putt with no break.
14:56And I like to practise hitting three balls, one that's going to just drop in the front edge at no pace.
15:01The next putt that's going to go in at sort of a more mid-level pace
15:04and make sure the next one hits off the back of the cup and then work up and down that scale.
15:08Then you're really fine-tuning your feel.
15:11And when you've got the option of hitting it in at pace or dropping it in,
15:14you can pick the break you want to play a little bit more easily if it's a breaking putt.
15:18So you're really, again, sending good messages and fine-tuning your touch and feel.
15:22And while we're talking about breaking putts, my next tip for practise on these
15:26is something I'm going to get you involved.
15:27Go on, then.
15:28Give me a little go.
15:29Another reason I see a lot of amateurs missing short putts is they just assume every putt's straight.
15:33You get close and think, well, if I hit it firm enough, it's straight enough.
15:36Right, yeah.
15:37That's just not the case.
15:38It's a good example here.
15:39We're on probably, for the aim pointers amongst those, probably a 2% slope here from our left to right down here.
15:47So a really good way of practising these short putts is if you get a standard length putter,
15:51generally sort of 33 to 36 inches, just around the three foot mark,
15:56so you can grab a few tee pegs and set up a little clock face.
16:00Put the putt head in the hole, drop a tee down at the end of it, you've got three feet.
16:04Drop another tee.
16:05Ah, I see where you're going.
16:06Kind of, you know, you can do four, you can do quarters and just keep dropping those round in a different area.
16:12I'm going to set you up three here.
16:13Set me up three, yeah.
16:14And I'm going to go this way.
16:16So what you'll do here is you're going to get these three foot putts, but they're all going to be different breaks.
16:20This one's going to have a touch of right to left in it.
16:23Yeah, which is...
16:24From this side, we're going to have a touch of left to right.
16:26We've got a downhiller.
16:27Just changing the pace a little bit from the one we would have had down there.
16:29Exactly.
16:30And what you'll do is you keep, you hit some putts away for me here, I'll get the balls out for you.
16:34But what you'll do as you're sort of going through this drill, lovely putt.
16:38Now give me a downhiller, you'll start to eventually over time, you'll figure out some tendencies
16:44and you'll notice maybe you're better on right to left or left to right putts.
16:47Yeah.
16:48Because we were doing this before we filmed this now and I was just pulling these, wasn't I?
16:52Correct.
16:53And now you've been able to correct that a little bit as we're going along.
16:55So you'll start to notice some tendencies, you'll identify some weaknesses.
16:59And if you're really careful, someone like a Matt Fitzpatrick would document some of these things
17:04and write down this practice and go, okay, I've missed X amount right or left of the hole.
17:09And you can begin to work on those tendencies.
17:11So getting a bit more clinical and statistical with practice from this range,
17:15if you can get sharp from here and get your percentages up in the 90s from this range,
17:20it is huge for most club golfers. So I think those are really good ways of making that happen.
17:24Love them, Joe. Two really good drills there to work on what is a fundamental part of the game
17:28you need to get right to get your scores lower.
17:34Right, lastly, Joe, we're in a bunker.
17:36What I want to talk about here is just a fail safe, get out of the bunker option.
17:40A lot of people are scared of bunkers. We're on the 17th here.
17:43You don't want to ruin a round by knifing one through.
17:46So we're going to talk here about just a fail safe thought and technique,
17:50not necessarily just to get up and down all the time and nip one in there.
17:53It's just to even get up and two putt and not mess it up.
17:56So give us some nice thoughts to have when we're on the course.
17:59I think this is a really good example.
18:01You've picked a good shot here as well because we're short-sided.
18:04We hit it in the left bunker, the pin's on the left, the green's all running away.
18:07So with the best will in the world, even if you're one of the better bunker players in golf,
18:12this is a really tricky one to get up and down.
18:14So primarily target number one is be out of this trap and have a putt of some description for par.
18:20Target number one, take the target out of it.
18:22Yeah, I would agree with that.
18:23Should we just remove that entirely if we can?
18:24I would agree with that, yeah, very much so.
18:26So we're not even focusing on the pin here.
18:28All our focus is getting the correct strike on this board so it pops out of the bunker
18:32and we're taking no more than three to get.
18:34We always talk about getting up and down, but sometimes three shots from particular situations is good and this is it.
18:39And for me, from a technique point of view, a fail-safe way of doing that, I like to envisage,
18:44and I'll draw it now for illustration purposes, a little circle around the ball.
18:48So it's about an inch and a half probably either side of the ball.
18:52So it ends up looking a bit like a fried egg and that ball sat on a little island in the middle of that circle.
18:56And again, you were talking about taking the target out of your sort of consciousness.
19:02I want to take the ball out of consciousness here.
19:05Okay.
19:06All I am focusing on here is slapping this little island of sand that I've created
19:10and I want to land this sand by the hole.
19:13Okay.
19:14So many people I see get a bit tentative in this scenario and you see where that sand landed about here.
19:19Yeah.
19:20We don't get enough speed.
19:21Speed is underrated in bunkers, you need it to get out.
19:24So we're actually going to hit this shot quite hard.
19:26But to counteract that, you know, I've heard it a million times, the clubface needs to be a little bit open.
19:31If we're too square, you get too much clubface on the ball and that's when you send it rocketing over there.
19:35So we're going to open up the clubface.
19:37That activates the trailing edge.
19:39So the club will go in at the back of this island and it will have the pace and the bounce to come back out
19:44and the ball should travel out.
19:46Not focusing on ball, not focusing on target.
19:49Just going to take my normal wide stance, open up that clubface.
19:52And all I want to do, like I said, is slap that sand and throw it up to the pin.
19:58It's come out great.
19:59It's run on a little bit far.
20:00So what we've kind of eight foot from there.
20:02That's a really good result.
20:03I'd have taken 25 feet if I'm totally honest.
20:06That's it.
20:07You've hit a really good bunker shot there.
20:08It's still got eight foot past.
20:09You try and get too cute with that, trying to make up and down your back in here, aren't you?
20:12And you're facing the same thing again.
20:13So we're just going to get it out and take it from there.
20:16What are you doing here, Dan?
20:17I'm here to experiment.
20:19Lovely.
20:20So that's a nice fail-safe one when you've got a good lie.
20:22Yes.
20:23Can I just give you a bit of one of them?
20:25Wow.
20:26Just a bit of a fried egg.
20:27Yeah, that's deeply unpleasant, actually.
20:30So I need another fail-safe option here.
20:31I need something I can fall back on when I'm out on the course and I'm panicking.
20:35Perfect.
20:36So number one here, this ball is now sat below the surface level of the sand.
20:39So we know we need to have the club under the ball to propel the ball up.
20:42So many people see this and think it's going to come out low and horrible and try and help up in the air.
20:47That's the worst thing you can possibly do.
20:48You're bringing the equator into play there and you are going to be sending a rocket through into those trees there.
20:54Contrary to the first shot here, you still need the pace, but I'm not too worried about throwing the sand all the way here.
21:00My first thought whenever I'm plugged is to drill the club into the sand as hard and as steep as I can and I try and leave it there.
21:09So I stick it in so it will look a little something like that.
21:13Yeah.
21:14The sand does come out and it propels it with a lot of pace, but it just makes sure that I'm keeping that club travelling downwards, downwards, downwards under the ball.
21:21And you actually need to hit down to make it go up, not up to make it go up.
21:25So same again, fairly wide stance.
21:27Generally speaking, I open the club up a little bit still.
21:30Some people recommend playing it with a square face.
21:32I was going to say, do you want to try and bring that leading edge in a little bit?
21:34Yeah, I think maybe if we're talking maybe the sort of mid to high handicap ender of the spectrum, I think that would be useful.
21:39You probably would just square it up a little bit to ensure the leading edge will help you dig under the ball.
21:44If you've got a bit more speed and you're a little bit more accomplished, you can still open the face up a little bit.
21:49So depending on your level of ability, that's probably something to think about.
21:53We're just talking fail safe here.
21:55So I'm going to square up and I just want to make sure this gets out.
21:58So I'm square, square blade.
22:00I'm looking at that little line behind the ball and I'm just going to dig.
22:03Stick it in there.
22:05It's come out lovely.
22:07But you can see how much deeper that divot is.
22:10I've just stuck it in and the club barely moved past.
22:13So just concentrate on that.
22:14Drill the club under the ball.
22:15And I think that's a pretty fail safe way that the ball will get out every time.
22:19Brilliant. Great work, Joe.
22:20There's two fail safe swing thoughts and feelings to have there.
22:23When you get a bit nervy toward the end of your round, you get in a bunker you don't like the look of.
22:26Get up.
22:27If you pull one of those putts, great.
22:29Two putt in there is fine as well.
22:31So Joe, thank you very much.
22:33Great work today.
22:34I'd take both of them.
22:35You'd take both of them.
22:36Good work today.
22:37Go practice these shots.
22:38Go work on this stuff.
22:39Alongside your normal game, if you get these shots to talk about today right, your score's going to come down, aren't they, Joe?
22:43100%.
22:44Yeah, 100%.
22:45These basics will stand you in very good stead.
22:47Well, thank you for watching.
22:48Hope you enjoyed it.
22:49See you next time.
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