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 they want to hit one or two but I've already seen kind of what you're doing
00:57which is a very common kind of pattern I see in many amateurs when they're in the bunker okay
01:02go ahead and hit one here see what happens let's start out with a hole very good but what you can
01:12see there in my opinion is that the club is moving a little bit too much underneath the ball luckily here
01:19the sand is not very fluffy it's kind of compact so you get away with it hitting it kind of far and
01:24deep behind the golf ball but if the sand is too fluffy that club is just going to work too much
01:29underneath it and you're going to tend to hit a lot of shots yeah that happens yeah or you feel like
01:35you have to hit it so freaking hard you get it out of bunker right so what I see if you go to the side
01:40I'll show you kind of what I see which is very common that is a swing path that's way too far to
01:47the left and steep so a very common miss is obviously pretty much with all clubs of amateurs they swing
01:54out 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 change it
02:11yeah so if you see really good golfers a lot of them i i was uh kind of filming with luke donald a
02:18couple of months ago he's pretty good he's pretty good at a bunker right yeah uh he he feels like
02:23he's much more kind of neutral into it it still feels like he'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
02:34up a little bit too more to the right you're not gonna get as deep underneath the golf ball you're
02:39gonna be a little bit more shallow and you don't have to hit the ball so hard for it to go the whole
02:44way you see how much spin that has that's nice yeah it's because the ball is not the club is not
02:50working too much underneath the golf ball so it's just a shallow divot you're gonna feel that little
02:55clip yeah and the ball is gonna stop right next to the pin so give it a go here okay what i'm gonna
03:01do tell me so your face look really open yeah where do you set it do you set it out of dress you
03:07do it or do you set it no in the grip so i cannot i spin the club until the club is open i don't do
03:13this and then yes okay yeah yeah yeah so that's just gonna bring that puzzle even more absolutely yeah
03:19so we'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 message you a little bit okay we're gonna put the ball on the outside here so if you
03:29wear to swing too much to the left there you're gonna hit the line i'm worried about hitting the
03:32alignments yeah and then we're also gonna put the right foot back a little bit okay which is further
03:38gonna help you to swing a little bit more into out okay the right foot is too open we're gonna tend
03:43to swing left right okay so i'd always been probably open the club you know get it into a dress open the
03:49club then open my style yeah i'm just bringing in a whole world of pain yeah yeah most often okay
03:55most likely because the swing path though so if you can neutralize the swing path still feel like
03:59you really release the club like you actually did pretty good on that first one but with just a
04:04little bit more shallow so along the line of the stick along the line i'm worried about hitting
04:08the stick yeah of course yeah try not to there you go lovely open there lovely so move back the
04:14right foot a little bit it's gonna feel awkward yeah that way oh there you go close stance lovely
04:20just like that okay and now swing a little bit less hard okay a little bit softer along that line
04:27okay now it's all right so what happened there is that you bought them out a little bit too far
04:31behind okay so it's a little different feeling i mean a lot of things to think about yeah it shouldn't
04:36be too much back foot and then swing a little bit straighter try one more right so you we don't need
04:42to hit it so hard now the stance is it's a little bit too far up in the stance isn't it move a little
04:46bit more left yeah lovely right just i would say like a ball inside the left heel is good for you
04:52yeah and again straight through on the line yeah and softer beautiful stop way faster there nice still
05:03slightly too far behind so we're going to do one more drill this is going to be kind of your baseline
05:09but here we're going to see exactly how skilled you are in the bunker here all right i want you
05:14to hit a shot here where you bottom out just on top of that line okay so we don't want to be behind
05:19it so give me three swings here where 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
05:50up on the ball which means that the low point is behind the golf ball too right so instead so instead
05:57of setting up in this type of fashion we need to get the shoulders more level and the head a little bit
06:03more right on top of the golf ball and the beauty in the bunker is that we don't really need to
06:07create that much power with the body so we can try to maintain the head over the golf ball throughout
06:13the whole motion so we can control you see what that started right on top of the line that way so
06:18set up to the line again imagine like the ball is right there yeah so we want the shoulders to be
06:25more level so you can make the feel the left shoulder down you see what happened to the head yeah
06:29it brings it forward okay and now i want you to rotate around that uh around the head this is a
06:35lot of stuff to remember yeah okay okay rotate around there not much better now you started on
06:41top of the golf or the line okay yeah okay so we're gonna give that a go here you don't need to hit it
06:46that hard we'll try it again now we're gonna hit a ball beautiful there so we're thinking about the
06:52shoulders still tilting a little bit too much there open up the face good and i feel like you're swinging a
06:58little bit more straighter and a little bit softer motion and bottoming out on that line beautiful
07:04shot look at the height and spin great shot now look at that not behind at all so to summarize okay
07:12so you were setting up you were swinging a little bit too much to the left yeah with the path and you
07:17were setting up like a driver yeah which means that you're gonna bottom up too far behind all the time
07:21because i think subconsciously i was thinking i need to get a bit of help to get it up in the air
07:26whereas i know really that i need to keep my weight on the on my left foot and you're gonna do that
07:32easier by just changing the tilt and the shoulder yeah so the lower the left shoulder is the easier
07:38this is to maintain the pressure left okay and then if you look at really good bunker players
07:43they have lever shoulders definitely more pressure left and then they just rotate around the head okay
07:48you don't see any pressure shift or slide sway sway no no they just go very rotational from that point
07:56so a little bit straighter path a little bit adjustment in the setup and you're gonna be
08:00golden that was a good shot you see the height difference yeah that went straight up in there
08:04great that's it everybody needs to see a bit of frederick
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