00:00So one of the best things about my job is if my golf game gets into trouble I've got a
00:06little
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
00:24really
00:24tough 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
00:51me
00:52out yeah I think yeah they want you hit one or two but I've already seen kind of what you're
00:57doing
00:57which is a very common kind of pattern I see in many amateurs when they're in the bunker okay go
01:03ahead and hit one here see what happens let's start out with a hole very good but what you can
01:12see
01:12there in my opinion is that the club is moving a little bit too much underneath the ball luckily
01:18here the sand is not very fluffy it's kind of compact so you get away with it hitting it kind
01:24of far and deep behind the golf ball but if the sand is too fluffy that club is just going
01:29to work too
01:29much underneath it and you're going to tend to hit a lot of shots yeah that happens yeah or you
01:34feel
01:35like you have to hit it so freaking hard you get it out of bunker right so what I see
01:39if you go to the
01:40side I'll show you kind of what I see which is very common that is a swing path that's way
01:46too far to
01:47the left and steep so a very common missus obviously pretty much with all clubs of amateurs they swing
01:54out in kind of over the top yeah like a mad accident exactly yeah pretty much t-degree shopping woods
01:59yeah
01:59but so when you do that the club is going to tend to get a little bit too steep the
02:05leading edge and
02:05especially the hustle kind of leads into the ball so that's when you're checking yeah so if you see
02:13really good golfers a lot of them I I was kind of filming with Luke Donald a couple of months
02:18ago
02:18pretty good he's pretty good at a bunker right yeah yeah he he feels like he's much more kind of
02:25neutral into it it still feels like he's swinging slightly left but a lot less to the left okay so
02:30if
02:31you can feel like you're more kind of having more neutral plane swinging up a little bit too more to
02:35the right you're not going to get as deep underneath the golf ball you're going to be a little bit
02:40more shallow and you don't have to hit the ball so hard for it to go the whole way you
02:45see how much
02:45spin that has that's nice yeah it's because the ball is not and the club is not working too much
02:51underneath the golf ball so it's just a shallow divot you're going to feel that little clip yeah and the
02:57ball is going to stop right next to the pin so give it a go here okay and what i'm
03:01going to do
03:01tell me so your face look really open yeah where do you set it do you set it out of
03:07dress you do it
03:07or do you set it no in the grip so i cannot i spin the club until the club is
03:12open i don't do this
03:14and then yes okay yeah yeah yeah so that's just going to bring that hosel even more absolutely yeah
03:19so we're going to do this we don't want that we don't want that we want we're going to put
03:23an
03:23alignment stick here to message you a little bit okay we're going to put the ball on the outside
03:28here so if you were to swing too much to the left there you're going to hit the line i'm
03:32worried
03:32about hitting the alignments yeah and then we're also going to put the right foot back a little bit
03:37okay which is further going to help you to swing a little bit more into out okay the right foot
03:42is
03:42too open we're going to tend to swing left right okay so i'd always been probably open the club you
03:48know get it into a dress open the club then open my style yeah i'm just bringing in a whole
03:52world of
03:53pain yeah yeah most often okay most likely because the swing path though so if you can neutralize
03:58the swing path still feel like you really release the club like you actually did pretty good on
04:02that first one but would use a little bit more shallow so along the line of the stick along the
04:06line i'm worried about hitting the stick yeah of course yeah try not to there you go lovely open
04:12there lovely so move back the right foot a little bit it's going to feel awkward yeah that way
04:18there you go close stance lovely just like that okay and now swing a little bit less hard okay a
04:24little bit softer along that line okay now it's all right so what happened there is that you bought
04:30them out a little bit too far behind okay so it's a little different feeling i mean a lot of
04:34things to
04:34think about yeah it shouldn't be too much back foot and then swing a little bit straighter try one more
04:41right so you we don't need to hit it so hard now the stance is it's a little bit too
04:44far up in the stance
04:45isn't it move a little bit more left yeah lovely right so we're just i would say like a ball
04:51inside
04:51the left heel is good for you yeah and again straight through on the line yeah and softer
05:00beautiful stop way faster there nice still slightly too far behind so we're going to do one more drill
05:07this is going to be kind of your baseline but here we're going to see exactly how skilled you are
05:11in the
05:11bunker here all right i want you to hit a shot here where you bottom out just on top of
05:17that line
05:18okay so we don't want to be behind it so give me three swings here where the divot is bottoming
05:23out
05:23just to the left of that line okay okay okay still too far back yeah so set up to that
05:32line again i'm
05:33going to tell you exactly what you're doing so if you were to see yourself in a reflection right in
05:38front of you you have a little bit too much tilt in the shoulders and the head is way back
05:44behind
05:44the golf ball okay so what what happens is that you're pretty much setting up like you're about
05:48to hit a driver yeah and the driver will hit up on the ball which means that the low point
05:52is
05:52behind the golf ball too right so instead so instead of setting up in this type of fashion we need
06:00to
06:00get the shoulders more level and the head a little bit more right on top of the golf ball and
06:05the beauty
06:05in the bunker is that we don't really need to create that much power with the body so we can
06:10try to maintain the head over the golf ball throughout the whole motion so we can control
06:15you see what that started right on top of the line that way so set up to the line again
06:21imagine like the ball is right there so we want the shoulders to be more level so you take the
06:26feel
06:26the left shoulder down you see what happened to the head yeah it brings it forward okay and now i
06:31want
06:32to rotate around that uh around the head this is a lot of stuff to remember yeah okay okay rotate
06:38around there not much better now you started on top of the golf or the line yeah okay so we're
06:43gonna
06:43give that a go here you don't need to hit it that hard we'll try it again now we're gonna
06:48hit a ball
06:50beautiful there so we're thinking about the shoulder still tilting a little bit too much there
06:55open up the face good and i feel like you're swinging a little bit more straighter and a little bit
07:00soft emotion and bottoming out on that line beautiful shot look at the height and spin
07:05great shot now look at that not behind at all so to summarize okay so you were setting up you
07:13were
07:13swinging a little bit too much to the left yeah with the path and you were setting up like a
07:18driver
07:18yeah which means that you're gonna bottom up too far behind all the time because i think subconsciously
07:23i was thinking i need to get a bit of help to get it up in the air whereas i
07:27know really that
07:28i need to keep my weight on the on my left foot and you're gonna do that easier by just
07:34changing
07:34the tilt and the shoulder yeah so the lower the left shoulder is the easier this 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 they just go very rotational from that point so a little bit straighter
07:57path a little bit adjustment in the setup and you're gonna be golden that was a good shot you see
08:02the
08:02height difference yeah that went straight up in there great that's it everybody needs to see a bit of
08:08frederick
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