00:04Hi, Dan Grief here, Head Professional at Web & Golf Club and here we're talking about the
00:08greenside bunker shot and the technique in which you need to be able to splash that ball out every
00:12time. So it really all begins with setup. So I like to see golfers standing nice and wide,
00:18really very important to create a nice wide base when you play these shots because the biggest
00:22fault I see is the golfer moves side to side and that creates thin shots and fat shots. So let's
00:27get really wide like a driver and get this left foot turned out around about 45 degrees and what
00:32that allows you to do then is push your left knee over your foot and get this right leg kicking
00:37in.
00:37So you'll find the majority of your weight, perhaps up to 80%, is forward on this left side.
00:42Now for this soft sand you can afford to allow your right shoulder to drop back a little bit.
00:46You don't want to get your upper body stacking over your left leg too much this way. So allow
00:51the right shoulder to drop a little bit lower and we'll have the ball position just inside the left
00:56heel. Very important as well to make sure that the shaft line mirrors that so we have the shaft line
01:02neutral. Hands don't go ahead and they don't come back. Really nice and neutral. The face can be
01:09slightly open because I'm standing far further away from the ball, lots of knee flex, okay that allows me
01:15to get more into the sand and really feel like I'm rooted and strong down into the sand. And then
01:20from
01:21there it's about making sure that we keep the loft and bounce on the club going back and then through
01:26the same thing making sure the chest turns. So I'll just hit one here.
01:32You see it splashes nicely there. Now one of the things that allowed me to play that shot really
01:36nicely was the fact I kept the loft and bounce on and here's a really simple drill you can do
01:41is put
01:41some sand on the club face and see if you can keep that sand on and see if you can
01:45throw it over that
01:46shoulder there, over your back shoulder. Now if you do that that means the left wrist is getting cupped
01:50and the loft and bounce is on and equally you can put some sand on the club face and see
01:55if you can
01:55throw it over your front shoulder and if you can do that you've got the same thing going on there
02:00where the club face isn't turning over you're holding the loft and bounce on and creating that
02:04nice splash shot. So one of the real skills when you get into a bunker is being able to read
02:07the lie
02:08and make relevant adaptions for the lie. Now we don't always get that lovely soft fluffy sand that we had
02:13for
02:13the first shot. Sometimes the bunkers might be have less sand in, they might be more compact and we need
02:19to
02:19slightly change how we how we approach the shot because if you're going there with this one
02:24dimensional approach of just using your standard splash shot you'll um you'll have a lie like this
02:29okay and then you will play the shot and there we go off it goes it's thinned you'll do well
02:35to find
02:36your ball. So there was nothing wrong with my technique there for the standard splash shot
02:40what was wrong with my intelligence I wasn't able to read the lie very well I wasn't able to
02:44adapt how I put the bounce into the sand so when you get a tight lie like this you have
02:49to set up
02:50slightly differently so we'll keep the stance the same you can very much get the weight forward on
02:54the left side but the shoulder line will now be more left as well so you get your left shoulder
02:58more over your left foot and that's this is simply going to steepen your angle of attack it's going to
03:03get you coming in more downward into the sand and more with the leading edge rather than the trailing
03:07edge of the bounce so it's going to dig down a bit more and just it's a bit of insurance
03:12about that
03:12that bounce happening and that ball going too far the ball position also I just move that back a
03:18little bit and add a little bit more forward lean of the shaft whereas before it was very neutral
03:22we're now going to shift this way a little bit put a bit of that lean in and you'll see
03:27the difference
03:27in the follow-through my follow-through for the soft sand you can see it's a full and complete release
03:33because I'm using the trailing edge from this lie here you'll see the difference in the follow-through
03:38so the ball goes back the hands go forward and the follow-through is much shorter and more curtailed
03:45and that means my leading edge is going more down into the sand with the handle leading
03:49and that means I'm not going to get that semi-thin shot which is such a dangerous shot out the
03:53sand
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