Goal 3: Trajecotry Overview

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All right, golfers, welcome back.

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In this video, we're going to cover how to influence trajectory for your stock

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bunker

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shot.

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So influencing trajectory is a little bit riskier than just influencing

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distance, because you

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have to play around with either the loft, the contact location, or the angle of

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attack.

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Ideally, you're building kind of one standard where the club contacts the sand

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and how deep

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it goes, but we have to influence those variables to control trajectory.

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The big one is going to be the face openness versus close, combining that with

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the angle

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of attack.

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We can influence that with the ball position.

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We can play around with, if we want it to come out a little bit lower, it's

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risky to

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put the ball too far back, that can encourage some tilt.

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But if we say our normal shot is kind of close to the heel, we might be able to

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move the

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ball back four inches or so up to four inches, and we can move the ball forward

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just slightly,

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maybe an inch or two, to influence some of the club face angle, which will help

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us with

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trajectory.

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Contact location, we can get closer to the golf ball to help it go up, and we

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can move

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further away to help it go down.

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By moving further back, you'll tend to have almost more of a coming up into the

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ball,

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which tends to launch the ball a little bit lower, believe it or not, because

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you'll tend

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to, as it's coming up, the club face will have a tendency to shot a little bit,

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where

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when you're coming down into it, it's easier to keep the club face open.

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Release styles, if you get really risky, you can work on creating a little bit

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more extension

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than normal to really open the club face, and then remember, whenever you have

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a really

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open club face, you're going to have to have a lot more speed.

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When you're hitting out a fluffy sand versus firm sand, you actually use the

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opposite strategies

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to hit the high shot.

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With the fluffy sand, you have to get nice and shallow in order to hit the high

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shot.

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If you get steep, you'll tend to hit it too high on the club, or you'll tend to

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get too

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much depth, tends to come out low, so we want to be even more skimmy when the

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sand is fluffy.

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When the sand is firm, then you can get more aggressive with your steepening

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actions and

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really come down into the golf ball as long as you're keeping the club face

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more open,

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keeping the loft of the club.

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If we're trying to get high launch with the fluffy sand, it's going to come in

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more like

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this, and with the firm sand, it's going to come in more like that.

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We've got some drills to help us again refine our setup routine as it release

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the trajectory,

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but also working on club face play and release styles in order to try to mess

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around with

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trajectory.

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With all of these shots, though, you do want to be careful about getting too

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much tilt

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that can really disrupt your contact location, which is going to tend to have a

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bigger impact

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on your trajectory.

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Make sure those first two, your standard and your ability control distance are

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relatively

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under control before you start trying to worry too much about controlling

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trajectory.