Bunker Low Point Training

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This drill is low point training in the bunker so many golfers struggle with

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their bunker play not just because of where the club hits the sand but because

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of where the club bottoms out so if I draw a line kind of like so we know that

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we want to make contact somewhere in that one to two inches behind the golf

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ball. Now when you make contact with sand you're trying to make contact with

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the bounce edge of the club and if you look you can see here's the leading edge

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here's the bounce edge so you can see that the bounce edge is a good you know

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half inch or so behind the leading edge so for me to put the bounce on that

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line

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where I want to make contact it looks to me like I only have about a thumbs

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width

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or so or maybe even less than that between the leading edge in the golf ball.

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The

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key here is that not only do I make contact or first make contact with the

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sand right there but that the bottom of my swing is out in front of the golf

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ball

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so I want to make sure that the club is traveling down until about two inches

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in

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front of the golf ball something like that and then it starts to come back up.

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If I do so I virtually if I make that low point out in front of the golf ball

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then really all I can the only contact miss I can really struggle with is

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shanks or toe whiffs but if I'm able to get the club to splash the sand and go

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down all the way until in front of the golf ball so it makes contact with the

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sand before the golf ball and keeps going down until after it. I've virtually

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eliminated the two big misses which are the chunk and the blade so to set it up

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you're just going to draw one line an inch to two inches behind the golf ball

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and then another line about two inches in front of the golf ball so there

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should

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be a little bit more than a club head width in between those two lines I'm

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going

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to then practice not just hitting the sand but hitting the sand and having the

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club continuing to go down so the middle of the divot is roughly even with the

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second line. Once I can do that without a ball I'm going to step in and try to

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do

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it with a ball.

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Weaker grip nose on top of the golf ball narrow shot and as long I hope you saw

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that catch the flag so it contacted the sand just a tiny bit before so it didn

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't

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have quite as much spin but you can see that the bottom or the middle of the

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divot is pretty much even with the divot. If you go for that pattern and you

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keep

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working on your ability to get the club to travel down all the way past the

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golf ball you'll be fine. One of the most common problems that I see with bad

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bunker players is that they get shallow. Shallow in most swings is good shallow

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in bunker shots is a big problem so while I want to have a flat-ish swing I

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want to be pretty narrow with a steep angle of attack. What a lot of bad bunker

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players do is they get stuck on this back foot so they sway too much off the

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ball or they get the club too far away from them and then it's going to be

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coming up into the golf ball so even if the club contacts the sand in the right

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spot the low point is in the wrong spot and it's a complete disaster. So don't

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just train where the club hits the sand train the low point being ahead of the

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golf ball if you really want to improve your bunker play.

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- That was fun.