Build Your Practice Plan

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Hey golfers, welcome back.

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Let's talk about building your stock bunker training plan.

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So just with every other program you're going to start the practice program or

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the practice

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session by working on dialing in your mechanics for your basic shot.

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So we either have a line drill or we're doing something like the single arms or

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then the

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nine iron, those are just kind of like big bucket dialing in your mechanics

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drills.

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But then you could work on one of your techniques, whether it's a little bit of

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sway analysis

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or working on the width and controlling your angled attack or the finished

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position, whatever

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your swing, whatever your technique.

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I would limit that to about 25% or that's what this way.

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The faster you can get through that and get to hitting just kind of a stock

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shot, the more

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we can spend time building skills rather than just working on technique.

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It's the skill training that will ultimately show up better on the course

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rather than just

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working on technique.

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So you want to have stock distances.

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I like to put kind of like a six foot, eight foot circle depending on how good

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you are and

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seeing how many in a row you can land in that stock, stock distance shot,

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similar to what

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you might do with just your full sand wedge or full seven iron.

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And then factoring in looking at the different lies and slopes, so how do we

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adjust when

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the ball is above your feet or below your feet or uphill or downhill?

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You want to, while most of the bunker shots are going to tend to be on the flat

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side, you

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can refer to the slope video to talk about how to work through each of those

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shots.

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One game that I'll give is trying to hit all four shots.

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So if your bunker, some practice bunkers are too flat to really do this, but if

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you have

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a bunker that has a nice bowl to it, then you can do quickly one of each shot

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trying

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to get them into a eight foot target or something like that.

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And you can work on kind of similar to with the finesse wedge, where I like to

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do two

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different shots out of the rough or two different trajectories.

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You can do regular shot and chunk and run or regular shot versus try and nip it

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So playing with your two different stock techniques adds a good amount of kind

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of skill building

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random practice.

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And then lastly, picking a couple different targets.

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So if you have multiple pins, you can practice either whatever your technique

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is for adjusting

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your swing.

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Are you going to switch clubs?

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Are you going to move ball position?

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Are you going to move contact location?

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And you get two different shots from your flat lie to the same target.

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Doing that to multiple targets takes a lot of skill.

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With this, I give the general goal for higher hand caps.

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I usually say inside 10 feet, give yourself around 50, 50 or a little less if

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you're in

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the 10, nine foot zone, but usually 10 foot is a good goal.

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If you're doing, let's say 20 to 30 yard shots, then I'll give you maybe a

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little bit more

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leeway on that.

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If you're a tournament player, then I'm going to say inside 8 feet because that

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'll at least

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give you better than 50/50.

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And 50/50 is a really good goal for your overall bunker performance.

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So this will help you dial in just your technique, but also your skills.

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So hopefully this gives you a little bit more liberty and being not so afraid

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of hitting

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into the bunkers.

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But if you're doing smart strategy, you should still probably be minimizing

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bunkers other

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than on long part 3s and part 5s.

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Oftentimes I find a lot of my students who hit in a number of bunkers have to

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work more

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on their core strategy and how they're actually going to play.

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But it's always better to have a good backup plan.

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So this program helps you establish your stock bunker technique, learn how to

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be your

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own coach for one of the more problematic shots.