Bunker Face Rotation

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This drill is no face rotation on bunker shots. So while I say no face rotation

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what I really mean is no major shaft rotation kind of like this. So if I was

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hitting this at this camera here what you would see is that on the way through

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after it went through the sand to keep the bounce exposed the hand would stay

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more underneath kind of like this instead of letting it rotate on top and

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getting a lot of forearm rotation like we do in the stock full swing.

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If you have a lot of shaft rotation it will tend to throw the low point forward

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which can cause you to hit some thin shots or blade shots. It will

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take away bounce which will cause the club to dig and come out really low and

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have a lot of run best-case scenario. Oftentimes it gets your path going too

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much too wide on the way through which causes you to

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want to hang back so then you get into the blade chunk pattern

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causes a whole host of problems. So what you want to start practicing

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is you want to start practicing finishing with the leading edge

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pretty much the same to the shaft as it was down here at impact.

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So here it's slightly open compared to the shaft

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there and follow through it would be slightly open in front of the shaft.

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If you do that you'll have a much better chance of getting the club to slide

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through the sand kind of make that noise there

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as opposed to if it rotate you'll hear it kind of dig and

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go down into the sand because if the leading edge hits

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because I've closed the face it will tend to drop down like this

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but if I keep that face open even though the club is trying to go down

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it'll skid because of this bounce angle. So when you're practicing this

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you're just going to focus on trying to get to that follow through position

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and check and make sure that your right hand is slightly under your left

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and that the face hasn't rotated. Once you can do that with just the simple

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line and controlling your low point then you can

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try a few with the golf ball getting in the way.

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So checking the follow through position

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that came out pretty good and you can see when I got it into that follow

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through

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position the club was still facing up that's why the club was able to slide

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underneath the golf ball pop it up. If you have a lot of trouble when you have

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a

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high lip because it launches really low this is definitely one thing that you

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want to explore because it has a big impact on the

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launch angle coming out of the sand.

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