Goal 2: Distance Control Overview

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Welcome back golfers. Here we go. Getting into the second skill for bunker play

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, which is

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looking at distance control. So in general, you want to have one stock bunker

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shot with

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your sandwich that goes about 15 yards. There are a couple different ways that

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we can influence

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our distance control. The easiest one that's not on here but is over here in

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our drills

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is simply changing clubs. So if I don't play a whole lot and I have one shot

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and it goes

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15 yards or so, 10 yards, then I can add more loft and hit it shorter or I can

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go down

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to my gap wedge, my pitching wedge, maybe even my 9 or 8 iron for really long

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bunker

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shots. Changing clubs is a simple way to influence distance if you're not

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comfortable

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influencing it with more of the swing changes. If you are going to influence it

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with swing

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changes, we can increase the length of our swing or we can increase the force

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on the

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way down. Now the danger with increasing the force is a lot of golfers do that

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too much

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with their body and you get tilted and then your same contact becomes a problem

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. So we

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always want to prioritize the entry point, low point and depth even when you're

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swinging

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hard. But if you can, swinging a little bit harder will give us more speed. The

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other

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ways that you can kind of influence it would be changing the entry point. So

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assuming you

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just do your normal bunker shot and you have a certain amount of loft and

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impact and then

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you've practiced varying your speed. So either maybe a hard tempo, a full tempo

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or a 3/4

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swing versus your full swing. The other thing you can do is if you're pretty

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good with your

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contact location, you can vary it a little bit. So you might be able to move it

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slightly

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back to hit more of a chunk and run. So that would decrease the carry distance

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and have

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it roll a little bit more. Or you can get the contact location just slightly

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closer to

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the ball. Now when you look at the video on kind of setup, you will see that

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the place

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we're trying to have contact the sand is back here. It's not the leading edge.

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It's

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this point here. So oftentimes if you're going for more of that spin shot, it

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will feel like

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the club is very close to the golf ball. So when you do that, I tend to

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emphasize a

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little bit more verticalness in your arm action to try to help create more of

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this kind of

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knife-like entry point. And then lastly, when you're playing around with

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hitting the ball

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different distances, one thing to factor in is what do you do when the sand is

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fluffy

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versus firm? When the sand is fluffy, if you get too steep, you can get too

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deep and it

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really messes up your distance control. So the fluffier the sand, the more we

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want to

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be a little bit shallow. But if it's pretty firm, then we can get more

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aggressive hitting

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down. It will still give some, but we can get more aggressive coming down into

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the golf

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ball with firm sand. So again, with our drills, we've got our stock two bunker

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drills which

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are just kind of refining or building a routine for your setup and then working

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on the feedback

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of contact location. But then with distance control, we can work on a couple

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different

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length swings. We can work on setup to influence loft. And then we can work on

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changing clubs

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or changing tempo, changing speed. So those are big influences for working on

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distance

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control. In the last section, or in the next section, we're going to cover how

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to vary

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trajectory. So this is going to get into a little bit more kind of advanced

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swing changes

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in order to influence the shot.