Bunker Face Clock

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This is the bunker face clock, so in this video we're going to use the openness

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of

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the clubface in order to control distance rather than trying to change too many

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elements

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of our swing.

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We're really going to focus on changing the clubface to influence loft and

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distance.

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This can be really helpful if you're just more of a casual golfer, and let's

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say you

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have two different face positions that you use, your normal one, and then if

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you need

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to go shorter.

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So I'm going to draw a line in the sand, that's going to be kind of our target,

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and then I'm

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going to draw a line perpendicular, that's going to be just slightly ahead of

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ball position,

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and then we're going to draw that line behind it, kind of the low point line,

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and now I'm

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going to draw a few extra lines.

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This can be really helpful if you're more of a visual golfer, but I'm going to

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draw a

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line from the golf ball to my heel, so that would be just slightly open.

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I'm going to draw the line to my toe, that would be an additional 10 degrees

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open or

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so, and then I'm going to draw a line six or eight inches out in front of the

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toe.

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So from my perspective it looks like the line goes kind of like this, or if I

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was to match

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each one of those with the clubface, this would be square, that's not how I'm

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going

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to play a bunker shot, this would be pointed at my heel, this would be pointed

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at my toe,

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and then this would be pointed well outside my toe.

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Now if you're going to do this, you have to get used to this different visual

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because

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what will really spook you out is the club is going to look like it's wide open

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and you're

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going to think it's going to go way to the right, but the tendency is for the

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ball to

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follow more of the path of the club on this bunker shot rather than just where

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the face

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is pointing.

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So some experimentation can help you get a little bit more confidence with it.

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So we're going to use our basic stroke and then we're going to adjust the

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distance just

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by opening the clubface.

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Okay so a little demo here, so we're going to start with the heel line.

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You can play a club that's actually square but I don't do it very often so my

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square

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is pretty close to pointing at the heel or just a few degrees open.

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So now we're going to try and get a nice good bunker shot, bunker release, kind

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of our normal

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pattern.

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You can see I was actually closer to the toe so now I'll match that line, that

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's part

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of the beauty of having the line is then I don't totally have to rely on my

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feel.

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Okay so we've got the club matching the line and then that's going to dig a

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little bit

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more and it's going to come out a little bit lower and all just looked out.

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So it's going to come out a little bit lower, have a little bit more run than

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maybe my standard

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shot.

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My standard shot is probably closer to mid foot but again the most important

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thing here

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is just having some element of consistency so that you know what you're going

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to do to

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adjust it.

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So now I'm going to try to make as close to the same swing as I can but I'm

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going to

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open the club face an additional 10 degrees or so so it points at my toe

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instead of at

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my heel.

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So now we've got the line where it's matching that line pointing at my toe, we

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'll see if

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we can get similar swing, similar stroke, similar.

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And so that goes a little bit higher, I might have swung a little bit harder,

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it looked

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like it went a little bit further in the air but had potentially a little bit

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more grab.

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I would say close to the same shot there but again I think that's closer to my

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default

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shot where the club face a little bit more square that's kind of closer to what

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I would

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do for a chunk and run.

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Okay so now the grid gets messy pretty quickly so you have to kind of use the

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visuals as

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a guide either that or take the time to redraw it but now I'm really going to

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open the club

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face so it's going to be pointing a good 6-8 inches out past the toe kind of

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like this.

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Now I'm going to try, my subconscious is going to want to swing harder, I'm

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going to try and

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make the same swing I made on the last one as best I can.

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And that's a great example where that came up a good 8-10 yard shorter.

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Now potentially I could say hey that was pretty cool but let's see if we can

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push it

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even one notch further and eventually you'll get to an upper limit where the

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club face

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is like 90 degrees and you're going to feel like there's no way you could hit

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it.

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So on this one I'm going to try and add maybe another half click right so

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instead of going

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10 I've got this probably out here you'll see on the camera it's pretty much

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pointing

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close to you but not quite, it's not quite 90 degrees it's pointing way out in

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front

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of my big toe let's see if this just barely clears the bunker I'm going to set

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up a little

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bit and this might go just a touch more right.

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Alright so there we go, good butterfly grip, yeah it's the danger of that let's

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try one

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more of those risky ones.

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I was a little uncomfortable over that shot and that can happen alright so we

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've got

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club face pretty much laying flat and normally I would aim a little bit more

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left but for

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the sake of this video I'm trying to keep my alignment and everything square so

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this

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might potentially go just a touch more right let's see if we can make a similar

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stroke

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there we go.

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So that one compared to the one that was you know we could number these my toe

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might

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be my first position compared to the second position that went about half the

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distance

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so I was able to regulate or take off some of the distance just by playing with

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the club

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face and they didn't have to change my stroke a lot.

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Now you're going to have to practice that so that you get comfortable at the

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different

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looks of the club face being a little bit open and you'll figure out where the

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upper

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limit is and just never go past there so if you're struggling with distance

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control

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or you just want another option this can be an easy way for you to use the same

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club

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but take off some of the distance just by opening the face.