Alternating Greenside and Fairway Bunker

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This drill is alternating green side versus fairway bunker technique.

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So when you've established a basic technique for your green side bunker shot, I

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'd love

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to throw in some random practice, especially going back and forth between your

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green side

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bunker and your fairway bunker.

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Now, you can't do this at a lot of driving ranges unless it's like ours where

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we've

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got the bunker area right next to the driving range.

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So I can alternate between hitting full shots out of the bunker onto the

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driving range or

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green side ones right here to the practice screen.

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If you don't have that, then you'll have to do this on the course sometimes if

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you're

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practicing or just save it for when you're visiting a course that does have

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that capability.

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But it forces you to kind of quickly go through your different checklist for

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each of the major

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shots and it really helps with working on kind of going back and forth and kind

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of really

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ingraining your stock shots.

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So for example, for my keys, I'm going for the green side bunker.

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I'm going to play the ball forward, get a little bit more vertical with my

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posture, reach just

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a little bit more.

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I'm going to feel like this is a little bit more vertical and like I have the

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club passing

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the handle just kind of like that.

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And now if I go to my fairway wedge technique, this will be fun because this

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bunker is not

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level so I'm on a little bit of an up slope.

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So now the ball is going to be just a touch more back.

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I'm leaning into this left side.

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Now I'm really going to focus on getting some hip rotation but maintaining my

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height and

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I'm going to feel kind of keeping those arms a little bit more in front of my

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body and

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getting that right side through.

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So we'll see how we do.

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So we're set up just like we're going to hit a stock distance wedge shot.

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So there was really clean contact.

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You can see pretty good.

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This helps me see the depth of my swing as well as the contact location,

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everything ahead

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of the line where the green side bunker shot was a little bit behind the line.

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So I love alternating and going back and forth between hit a green side shot,

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hit a fairway

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shot, hit a green side, hit a fairway shot, really forces you to quickly dial

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ing your

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keys and your mechanics and it has a lot better transfer than just hitting your

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blocked

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practice or just hitting the same shot over and over again.

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The same shot over and over again is great for establishing your technique but

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it can

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create a false sense of confidence where if you can hit good shots after

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alternating

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or having a recipe for hitting your good shot, that tends to have a lot more

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carry over onto

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the course.

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All right, so let's go kind of super high, reach, flip, go in, okay.

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And then let's do the opposite.

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Let's feel kind of super flighted, lean a little bit into that left, keep the

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height.

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Not as flighted as I want but really good clean contact, pretty close, we'll

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take it.