15-Yard Baseline

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This distance bunker drill is 15-yard baseline. So as you know I'm a big fan of

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benchmarks or baselines that allow you to build feel off of kind of a stock or

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standard shot. With the bunker play I tend to aim for more of a 15-yard

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baseline

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15 up to 20 somewhere in that range. With chipping we did different length

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shots so we had kind of a 10 a 20 a 30 so we could cover a lot of different

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ground. Well with bunkers most greens are about 30-yard circle so if and the

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bunkers are just on the perimeter so typically if you can hit a 15 or 20

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yard shot that can get you close to the middle of the green from the majority

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of

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the bunkers you're gonna face. Then as you get better you can establish how to

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control distance a little bit better. The standard rule for bunkers for new

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golfers is first get out second get on third get close so we're gonna use this

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15-yard benchmark as a way to get out and on in one single step. So I've got

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some targets out there I've got a pool noodle the purple one is set at 15

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yards the blue one is 30 and then these two flags are about in between those so

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I've got the first one at the first flag I didn't set but the first flag is at

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about 10 paces from or 10 yards from here and then the second flag is about

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22 so not quite even but the purple flag the 15-yard benchmark is going to be

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my

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baseline or what I'm trying to target. In order to do that I'm pretty much

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gonna

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try to get the same contact the same speed and the same length of swing so I'm

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gonna try to standardize a bunker shot. For most golfers I like a bunker shot

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that goes up to about vertical in the backswing kind of your your nine o'clock

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swing in your distance wedges or your chest height swing in your distance

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wedges. So if I put a little bit of sand feedback here and we go vertical swing

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we're not going to try and swing really hard we're just gonna let gravity and

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kind of the fact that this is a heavy club help create the speed and take

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ourselves to a nice smooth finish. So we've got our our feedback station set up

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with our two lines and then we're gonna try and hit as many kind of shots as we

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can to the specific target. If we find that that's a too easy of a task then we

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can try and vary it a little bit hit a little bit past a little bit short right

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on it but we're gonna play around with this 15 yard benchmark or 15 yard

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baseline. Okay so standard technique butterfly grip set up a little bit on to

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that front foot up to vertical and that went about 10 so playing a little long

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today just kidding so we'll go I felt like that was a little short of my normal

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baseline so we'll go up a little bit bigger there we go and that hit the pole

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so there's my 15 yard baseline first couple swings of the day felt a little

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short so then I got closer to my full swing and that's my 15 yard baseline

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with my 58 degree wedge so I can play around with a little bit of variety but

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I challenge you to build one swing know how far it goes and that can be your

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stock bunker shot for controlling distance.