00:00So one of the best things about my job is if my golf game gets into trouble I've got a little
00:06black book of contacts that iPhone get in touch with to help me out and I posted on social media
00:13recently I had a roundup at Formby Golf Club and I posted a couple of videos and Arcos screenshots
00:19and I posted the best and the worst bits of my game so it was a great drive found this really
00:25tough fairway and then there was a bunker shot where I hit it about there and ended up 45 degrees
00:33to the right so posted on social media I love to share my wins and a lot of fails there
00:39Frederick popped into my replies and said man we need to sort out your setup we're going to sort
00:45out your bunker game let's meet up at the PGA show week here we are PGA show week Frederick help me
00:52out yeah I think yeah maybe once you hit one or two but I've already seen kind of what you're
00:57doing which is a very common kind of pattern I see in many amateurs when they're in the bunker
01:01okay go ahead and hit one here see what happens let's start out with a hole very good but what
01:11you can see there in my opinion is that the club is moving a little bit too much underneath the ball
01:18luckily here this sand is not very fluffy it's kind of compact so you get away with it hitting
01:23it kind of far and deep behind the golf ball but if the sand is too fluffy that club is just going to
01:29work too much underneath it and you're going to tend to hit a lot of shots yeah that happens yeah or
01:34you feel like you have to hit it so freaking hard you get it out of bunker right so what I see if you go
01:39to the side I'll show you kind of what I see which is very common that is a swing path that's way too
01:46far to the left and steep so a very common miss is obviously pretty much with all clubs of amateurs
01:53they swing out in kind of over the top yeah like a mad accident yeah exactly yeah pretty much T degree
01:58shopping woods yeah but so when you do that the club is going to tend to get a little bit too steep
02:04the leading edge and especially the hustle kind of leads into the ball so that's when you're thinking
02:11yeah pipe on yeah so if you see really good golfers a lot of them I I was kind of filming with Luke
02:17Donald a couple of months ago he's pretty good he's pretty good at a bunker right yeah he he feels like
02:23it's much more kind of neutral into it it still feels like it's swinging slightly left but a lot less
02:29to the left okay so if you can feel like you're more kind of having more neutral plane swinging up a
02:34little bit too more to the right you're not gonna get as deep underneath the golf ball you're gonna be a
02:40little bit more shallow and you don't have to hit the ball so hard for it to go the whole way you
02:45see how much spin that has that's nice yeah it's because the ball is not and the club is not working
02:50too much underneath the golf ball so it's just a shallow divot you're gonna feel that little clip yeah and the
02:56ball is gonna stop right next to the pin so give it a go here okay and what i'm gonna do
03:01tell me so your face look really open yeah where do you set it do you set it out of dress
03:07you do it or do you set it no grip so i cannot i spin the club until the club is open i don't do this
03:14and then yes okay yeah yeah yeah so that's just gonna bring that hosel even more absolutely yeah so
03:19we're gonna do this we don't want that we don't want that we want we're gonna put an alignment
03:23stick here to mess with you a little bit okay we're gonna put the ball on the outside here so
03:28if you were to swing too much to the left there you're gonna hit the line i'm worried about hitting
03:32the alignments yeah and then we're also gonna put the right foot back a little bit okay which is
03:38further gonna help you to swing a little bit more into out okay the right foot is too open we're gonna
03:43tend to swing left right okay so i'd always been probably open the club you know get it into a dress
03:49open the club then open my style yeah i'm just bringing in a whole world of pain yeah yeah most
03:54often okay most likely because the swing path though so if you can neutralize the swing path
03:59still feel like you really release the club like you actually did pretty good on that first one
04:03but would use a little bit more shallow so along the line of the stick along the line
04:07i'm worried about hitting the stick yeah of course yeah try not to there you go lovely open there
04:13lovely so move back the right foot a little bit it's gonna feel awkward yeah that way
04:17okay there you go close stance lovely just like that okay and now swing a little bit less hard
04:23okay a little bit softer along that line okay now it's all right so what happened there is that you
04:30bought them out a little bit too far behind okay so it's a little different feeling i mean a lot of
04:34things to think about yeah it shouldn't be too much back foot and then uh swing a little bit
04:39straighter try one more right so you we don't need to hit it so hard now the stance is it's a little
04:44bit too far up in the stance isn't it move a little bit more left yeah lovely right so we're just
04:49i would say like a ball inside the left heel is good for you yeah and again straight through on the
04:55line yeah and softer beautiful stop way faster there nice still slightly too far behind so we're
05:05going to do one more drill this is going to be kind of your baseline but here we're going to see
05:10exactly how skilled you are in the bunker here all right i want you to hit a shot here where you
05:15bottom out just on top of that line okay so we don't want to be behind it so give me three swings here
05:21where the divot is bottoming out just to the left of that line okay okay
05:29okay still too far back yeah so set up to that line again i'm going to tell you exactly what you're
05:34doing so if you were to see yourself in a reflector right in front of you you have a little bit too
05:40much tilt in the shoulders and the head is way back behind the golf ball okay so what what happens is
05:46that you're pretty much setting up like you're about to hit a driver yeah and the driver will hit up on
05:51the ball which means that the low point is behind the golf ball too right so instead so instead of setting
05:57up in this type of fashion we need to get the shoulders more level and the head a little bit more
06:03right on top of the golf ball and the beauty in the bunker is that we don't really need to create
06:08that much power with the body so we can try to maintain the head over the golf ball throughout the
06:14whole motion so we can control you see what that started right on top of the line that way so set up
06:19to the line again imagine like the ball is right there yeah so we want the shoulders to be more level
06:25so you can make the feel the left shoulder down you see what happened to the head yeah it brings it
06:30forward okay and now i want you to rotate around that uh around the head this is a lot of stuff to
06:35remember yeah okay okay rotate around there not much better now you started on top of the golf okay
06:42yeah okay so we're gonna give that a go here you don't need to hit it that hard we'll try it again
06:48now we're gonna hit a ball beautiful there so we're thinking about the shoulder still tilting a little
06:53bit too much there open up the face good and i feel like you're swinging a little bit more straighter
06:59and a little bit softer motion and bottoming out on that line beautiful shot look at the height and
07:05spin great shot now look at that not behind at all so just to summarize okay so you were setting up
07:13you were swinging a little bit too much to the left yeah with the path and you were setting up like a
07:18driver yeah which means that you're gonna bottom up too far behind all the time because i think
07:22subconsciously i was thinking i need to get a bit of help to get it up in the air whereas i know really that
07:28i need to keep my weight on the on my left foot and you're gonna do that easier by just changing
07:34the tilt and the shoulder yeah so the lower the left shoulder is the easier it is to maintain the
07:39pressure left okay and then if you look at really good bunker players they have levered shoulders
07:44definitely more pressure left and then they just rotate around the head okay you don't see any
07:49pressure shift or slide sway sway no no they just go very rotational from that point so a little bit
07:56straighter path a little bit adjustment in the setup and you're gonna be golden that was a good shot
08:02did you see the height difference yeah that went straight up in there great that's it everybody needs
08:07to see a bit of frederick
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