Follow Through Hold

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This year is follow through hold for the bunker shot.

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So we're going to focus on a couple keys in the follow through and we're really

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going

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to kind of forget about some of the other, you know, maybe some backswing keys

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or whatever.

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We're really just going to focus on getting into this follow through position

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and letting

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the club swing kind of through the sand instead of at the ball.

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This can be really helpful for golfers who have more of a hit tendency and try

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to really

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hit the golf ball as opposed to swinging through the sand.

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So the two keys that we're going to focus on are feeling a little bit more

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level hips

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and feeling like the arms finish low and left over by your pocket.

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So a lot of bunker players who tend to struggle with bunker play or a lot of

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golfers who struggle

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with bunker play tend to have more of their arms finishing up and out towards

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the target.

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If I just draw a line in the sand, what you'll see is the more that I swing my

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arms up that

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tends to move the low point backward, the more that I swing my arms more down

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that tends

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to move the low point forward.

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Now that can cause the club to come in steeply, which is why I have to balance

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that by controlling

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the height with a little bit more vertical posture as well as a little bit more

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wrist

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action kind of letting the club pass and keeping the club face open.

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If we do that then our finish position is going to have a really classic look

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where we're

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going to try and get into a little bit more of a level hip turn kind of like

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this where

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my knees are still bent.

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That's one of the unique characteristics of the bunker shot where my knees are

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still

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bent as my hips have turned through and I'm going to finish with the club over

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by my

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pocket almost like if this was a sword and I was going to put it in the sheath

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off to

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the side just like this and you'll see that when I do that the club face is

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pointing

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up towards the sky not turned over and pointing the ground like that.

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So we're going to focus on those two aspects in the follow through.

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We're going to focus on keeping the left leg or the left knee bent and we're

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going to

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focus on finishing left over near our hip.

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So with all the bunker shots let's draw a little bit of feedback there.

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We'll do a practice one just to kind of get the feeling of the sand contact.

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So all good setups little vertical and then we're going to feel like the hips

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kind of

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turn more level and finish well over here to the left that would have been

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really good

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contact there.

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So let's try that with a ball.

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So we've got setup pretty good one there arms finish over by the hip knee is

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still bent

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in turn chest facing I call that a pretty good rep and I was able to pay

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attention to

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some of those follow through position keys.

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The most common ones that you're going to struggle with are either it's just

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been your

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arms and so your body hasn't turned and now if I this is actually out in front

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of my body

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instead of finishing over over to the left or in order to get it to finish over

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to the

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left I'm going to roll that right arm over and close the club face it's going

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to finish

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like this instead of more of that kind of throw under the armpit feel or when

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the when

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the hips turn and you try to turn the hips more level you're actually just

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going to lunge

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that upper body and you might hit some shanks so you might finish with that

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upper body kind

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of to vertical saying not staying in in that vertical posture but actually kind

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of rotating

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that right side over on top of the golf ball so those two the two most common

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bunker problems

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I'll see will be a little bit kind of throwy like that which tends to cause

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either the

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blade or the skull or like I said the second one getting which is more rare but

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equally

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problematic kind of getting super on top of it like that and typically getting

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a lot

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of heel contact you'll often think you're bleeding it but you're really getting

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heel

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contact so let's recap where we're trying to get through into this follow

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through we're

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going to be stacked so our upper body is pretty vertical facing the target and

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a hips have

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turned level and we're going to finish with the club face still open and the

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arms kind

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of low and left over here if you do that you'll usually get really good sand

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contact both

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contact location as well as the bottom of the swing you'll be able to control

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the trajectory

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as well as the distance for your bunker shots really high soft bunker shots

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good finish