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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.
00:03Aside 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?
00:14I 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, but I'm just going to demonstrate what I
01:01do
01:01when 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.
01:08Why do you do that?
01:10When I'm all 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.
01:28So, that gives me the confidence to aim just a little bit left,
01:32knowing the ball is going to squeeze out a little bit.
01:34And 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.
01:41So, 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 is 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.
02:09100%.
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
02:15from 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.
02:24Slightly narrower stance than normal.
02:26And I'm just going to make my smooth little golf swing.
02:30Know it's going to bleed off that tree nicely.
02:32Ah!
02:33Yeah.
02:34Just inside it perfectly.
02:36That's a good example.
02:37So, really tight.
02:38So, it's just past that tree.
02:40Now, 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.
02:49But, 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.
02:54The punch out from the trees.
02:56That you just never...
02:57Well, I don't anyway.
02:58Practice, do you?
02:58You don't go to the range and start punching five irons off your back foot or whatever.
03:01I see a lot of complacency on this shot.
03:04And I play a lot of pro-ams.
03:05I play a lot of guys who sort of walk into this scenario and just see it as a nominal
03:08shunt forward.
03:09Correct.
03:09But it's actually far more complicated than a shot from the middle of the fairway where you're thinking about your
03:15yardage and the wind.
03:16There's actually a lot more going on here to think about.
03:18Don't you think?
03:18So, let's do strategy first then.
03:19And we'll come on to execution in a minute and how to practice it.
03:22So, let's talk about this situation we found ourselves in.
03:24Yeah.
03:24I mean, this is pretty standard.
03:25So, I've cut it too much off this tee.
03:27I'm in the right trees.
03:28But it's, like I said, a little bit more complex.
03:30We've got...
03:31The green is actually over there behind this set of trees.
03:34Yeah.
03:34But I've got the fairway here to the left.
03:36And 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.
03:45But is it a percentage play?
03:47Probably not.
03:47Even if I hit that gap from a width point of view,
03:51there's some overhanging limbs further up that I've got to keep it under.
03:54And I'm only really gaining around 20 to 30 yards.
03:57So, I think in this scenario, it would 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.
04:39So, 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.
04:46But when that happens, if this rough is quite thick, which it is here.
04:50It'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-arms that I've got to keep it under,
05:09because if it pops up too high and I pull out a nine iron or an eight iron,
05:13pops up too high, clips that, it's going to land there and 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.
05:23Yeah.
05:24So, 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
05:36in 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.
05:44So, 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 control and 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
06:09I normally would for this shot.
06:10Yeah.
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.
06:17I need to get behind this.
06:18I 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, 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.
06:33So, it should be an athletic thing.
06:35So, once you've got that visualisation of where you need to go, we'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.
06:49But, 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
06:55shot
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 to 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, it's going to
07:22really help you in this situation.
07:23And that's what I mean about your eyes will start to send the right messages to your brain
07:27and that set-up will become more automatic.
07:29Right.
07:29I've learnt a bit.
07:30Show us how it's done.
07:31I'm going to grab a club.
07:36Oh, well executed, sir.
07:38And that is going to go...
07:40That's good.
07:41Deep 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.
07:48It'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.
07:58I've sent messages to my brain.
08:03And you've sent the right messages because that's just made the fairway.
08:07You're in good shape.
08:08Not my finest, but again, I've got to go practice that.
08:10So, hey, I've got the fundamentals now.
08:12Go and practice it.
08:13It's a really useful shot to have.
08:19Right, next up, Joe, really important shot.
08:21It's the chip and run, the bump and run.
08:23Now, I think we get it a lot on the golf course.
08:26I think a lot of people do practice this, but it's an essential shot.
08:29It's going to save you a lot of shots if you get up and down.
08:32How do we perfect it?
08:33How do we practice it?
08:35The floor is yours.
08:36Thank you, Dan.
08:36That's very kind.
08:37There are a couple of ways of doing it, and I've got a simple way, I think.
08:40Someone 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 the green with
08:47his 58-degree wedge.
08:48And he makes a lot of technical changes, putting the ball back, hands forward, changing things around to produce different
08:55flights 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 three-wood, for example.
09:08So, what I like to do, I have a formula in my brain.
09:10I like to, number one, my key is to get the ball on the green as quickly as possible and
09:15get 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 to get
09:22it just on the green and then produce the right amount of roll.
09:24So, I kind of work on a formula basis. I like to have a 50-50 club, which I know
09:30in normal conditions, flat conditions on around a 10-stimp green will provide me with 50% of carry and
09:3750% of roll.
09:38For me, that's my pitching wedge.
09:40Okay.
09:40Then I can work in the variables around that. If the green's firmer, those percentages might change a little bit.
09:46So, from there, then your 9-iron, a 60-40.
09:49Correct.
09:49Sorry, 40-60 and so on?
09:52Basically, yeah.
09:52Pretty much.
09:53So, it's actually the other way. So, 9-iron is less loft, so it would be 40% carry and
09:5760% roll. Keep up, Dan.
09:59Thank you, Professor Hawkins.
10:00You're very welcome.
10:01So, from there, like I say, factor in the variables, whether the greens are firm, whether the greens are soft,
10:06whether 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
10:12rolling.
10:12And it's worth, then, for people watching, going and practising and figuring out what your 50-50 club is or
10:17what your 40-60 club is.
10:18It's going to be different to yours, isn't it?
10:19Absolutely. It could well be, but I'd say that's the key is practising that because the technique, which we'll talk
10:23about now, isn't actually that complicated.
10:26It's a fairly, I like to think of it as just an extended putt. So, what we're talking about here,
10:31I have a ball that's fairly centred, maybe 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
10:40a putter.
10:41And then it's literally just a rock of the shoulders, and I'm trying to get this club just coming in
10:45dead 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. Why have you picked eight iron? I'm going to have a go as well, actually. Talk
10:54us through it.
10:54Eight iron wise, so I'm looking here and I'm thinking we've probably got about 20 to 25% of carry
11:00here and then maybe 75, 80% of roll.
11:04Okay.
11:04Going up quite a steep slope, but we've played on these greens today and they're relatively quick.
11:10So, it's an experience thing and that's where the practice has to come in.
11:13As I said, it's not necessarily you need to be grooving a lot of technical practice with the bump and
11:18run because 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.
11:26Very good.
11:26So, for me here, based on my experience, I fancy eight iron is the right club and I'm not looking
11:30at 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. Try and land it
11:38in that area and get it rolling the rest of the way.
11:40Like I said, nice neutral stance. Look at my landing area. Rock my shoulders. Get it just going two or
11:48three feet on the green.
11:49That's barely, yeah, and that's just going to cuddle up pin high.
11:52Pushed it a little bit, but it's dead pin high, so I've probably got, what, four or five feet there
11:55for par.
11:56Yeah.
11:57Eight out of ten, but it's a very safe, fail-safe shot.
11:59Interesting, and this is just something, again, get yourself to the chipping green and practice because it's a shot I
12:04don't practice with an eight iron or whatever club you might have used.
12:08So, once you've got that formula you've just said, go and practice it because you can work out the relationship
12:12with 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. Lovely. Three or four feet on.
12:23Steady now. You've absolutely showed me up there.
12:25I've nailed that. Steady now. I'm inside the pro. I'm inside the pro below the hole as well, mate.
12:29Well, I mean, it's a good shot. It just shows what an excellent teacher I am.
12:32What a great teacher you are. So, take all of that there, go practice it, go work out that ratio,
12:36the relationship with the ball, with some of these different irons around here, and you'll be up and down more
12:40often than not.
12:45Next then, Joe, on the green putting, and now I'm going to give us something pretty basic here, but it's
12:50something that you need to master, you need to get right, practice it alongside everything else.
12:54It's just holding out from really short range. How do we do it? I put more 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 here.
13:07Thank you. That's what I'm getting at.
13:08So, yeah, I mean, it's something, again, I see it a lot. Playing in pro-ams, playing with amateur partners,
13:12miss a lot from this range, and I think there's a couple of things I'd like to talk about.
13:16Number one, there's just some fundamental technical issues, and one of those technical issues, I think, is centering strike.
13:24Okay. I see so many people hitting off the heel, toe, low or high on the face, and what happens
13:28when that takes place is the ball doesn't come off at the pace it's supposed to,
13:33and if you've got a braking putt, it can veer offline because it's not going to have enough momentum to
13:37stay online because 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
13:46a little bit, so 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
13:53over the years.
13:54So he does it as part of his warm-up all the time when he's playing, just getting a couple
13:59of 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.
14:05I've been a bit tight on myself here, and it's just simply find a nice straight putt and start stroking
14:11putts and trying to miss those tees so 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, and I would heartily recommend a good five or ten minutes
14:26a day on that.
14:27Yeah, and 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, it's
14:34good vibes up there.
14:35Subliminal messages, yeah.
14:36Subliminal messages, yeah.
14:36Gives 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.
14:42So 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.
14:48Yes.
14:48Another one I like to set up, maybe double this, maybe six feet.
14:51Find a straight uphill putt, relatively flat putt with no break.
14:55And I like to practise hitting three balls, one that's going to just drop in the front edge at no
15:00pace.
15:01The next putt that's going to go in sort of a more mid-level pace and make sure the next
15:04one hits off the back of the cup.
15:06And then work up and down that scale.
15:08Then you're really fine tuning your feel.
15:10And when you've got the option of hitting it in at pace or dropping it in, you can pick the
15:14break 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.
15:21And while we're talking about breaking putts, my next tip for practise on these is something I'm going to get
15:26you involved.
15:27Go on then.
15:27I'm going to make you do it.
15:28Give me a little go.
15:29So another reason I see a lot of amateurs missing short putts is they just assume every putt's straight.
15:33You get close and you think, well, if I hit it firm enough, it's straight enough.
15:36Right, yeah, yeah.
15:36That's just not the case.
15:37It's a good example here.
15:38We're on probably for the aim pointers amongst those.
15:41Probably 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, generally sort
15:52of 33 to 36 inches, just around the three foot mark.
15:55So you can grab a few tee pegs and set up a little clock face.
15:59Put the putt head in the hole.
16:01Drop a tee down at the end of it.
16:03You've got three feet.
16:04Drop another tee.
16:05I see where you're going.
16:05Kind of, you know, you can do four, you can do quarters and just keep dropping those round in a
16:11different area.
16:12I'm going to set you up three here.
16:12Set me up three, yeah.
16:13And I'm going to go this way.
16:15So what you'll do here is you're going to get these three foot putts, but they're all going to be
16:19different breaks.
16:20This one's going to have a touch of right to left in it.
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.
16:32I'll get the balls out for you.
16:33But what you'll do as you're sort of going through this drill, lovely putt.
16:38Now give me a downhiller.
16:39You'll start to eventually, over time, you'll figure out some tendencies and you'll notice maybe you're better on right to
16:46left or left to right putts.
16:47Because we were doing this before we filmed this now and I was just pulling these, wasn't I?
16:52Correct.
16:52And 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.
16:57You'll identify some weaknesses.
16:59And if you're really careful, someone like a Matt Fitzpatrick would document some of these things and write down this
17:05practice and go,
17:06okay, 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.
17:22So I think those are really good ways of making that happen.
17:23Love them, Joe.
17:24Two really good drills there to work on what is a fundamental part of the game you need to get
17:28right 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.
17:42We'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.
18:05The pin's on the left.
18:06The 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, this
18:12is a really tricky one to get up and down.
18:14So primarily, target number one is the 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.
18:25Yeah, 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 ball so it pops out of the bunker and we're
18:32taking no more than three.
18:33Correct.
18:33We always talk about getting up and down but sometimes three shots from particular situations is good and this is
18:39it.
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
18:55the middle of that circle.
18:57And again, you're talking about taking the target out of your sort of consciousness.
19:02I want to take the ball out of consciousness here.
19:05Okay.
19:05All I am focusing on here is slapping this little island of sand that I've created and I want to
19:11land 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
19:19here.
19:19Yeah.
19:19We don't get enough speed. Speed is underrated in bunkers. You need it to get out.
19:24So we're actually going to hit this shot quite hard but to counteract that, you know, I've heard it a
19:28million 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
19:35there.
19:35So we're going to open up the clubface. That 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
19:43bounce to come back out and 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.
19:57Slap that sand.
19:57And throw it up to the pin. It's come out great. It's run on a little bit far.
20:01So what? We've kind of eight foot from there. That's a really good result.
20:04I'd have taken 25 feet, if I'm telling you honest.
20:06That's it. You've hit a really good bunker shot there. It'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. So we're just going to get it out and take it from there.
20:16What are you doing here, Dan? I'm here to experiment.
20:19So that's a nice fail-safe one when you've got a good lie.
20:23Can I just give you a bit of one of them?
20:25Just 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. So 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
20:45and try and help up in the air. Worst thing you can possibly do.
20:48You're bringing the equator into play there
20:49and 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,
20:57but 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
21:06I can
21:07and I try and leave it there.
21:09So I stick it in so it will look a little something like that.
21:12The sand does come out and it proposes it with a lot of pace,
21:15but 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.
21:24So 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.
21:32If at the stage you want to try and bring that leading edge in a little bit.
21:34Yeah, I think maybe if we're talking maybe the mid to high handicap ender of the spectrum,
21:38I 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
21:43the ball.
21:44If you've got a bit more speed and you're a little bit more accomplished,
21:47you 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 it 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, stick it in there.
22:05Come out lovely.
22:08But 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, drill 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 when you get a bit nervy toward the end
22:24of your round.
22:24You get in a bunker you don't like the look of.
22:27Get 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.
22:32Great work today.
22:33I'd take both of them.
22:34You'd take both of them.
22:34Good work today.
22:36Go practice these shots.
22:37Go work on this stuff.
22:39Alongside your normal game, if you get these shots to talk about today right,
22:42your score's going to come down, aren't they, Joe?
22:44100%.
22:44Yeah, 100%.
22:45These basics will stand you in very good stead.
22:47Well, thank you for watching.
22:47I hope you enjoyed it.
22:48I'll see you next time.
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