Hands Under Your Hat

WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.120
This drill is hands under your hat.

2
00:00:08.120 --> 00:00:13.550
So one common issue that I'll see with poor bunker players is standing too

3
00:00:13.550 --> 00:00:14.300
close to the

4
00:00:14.300 --> 00:00:17.120
ball or getting the hands too close to your body.

5
00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:18.480
In fact, I think it's a common one.

6
00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:21.880
I can fall into it a little bit, especially if you haven't been practicing them

7
00:00:21.880 --> 00:00:22.120
in a

8
00:00:22.120 --> 00:00:23.120
while.

9
00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:28.600
Good bunker players tend to have more of this vertical posture and their arms

10
00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:29.720
further away.

11
00:00:29.720 --> 00:00:35.240
That helps control the depth of the swing as well as the contact location.

12
00:00:35.240 --> 00:00:38.860
So a simple cue that I'll give people is if you were to drop the club from

13
00:00:38.860 --> 00:00:39.560
underneath

14
00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:47.080
your hat, I want your hands from the down the line camera angle to be closer to

15
00:00:47.080 --> 00:00:47.720
in line with

16
00:00:47.720 --> 00:00:52.000
that vertical line as opposed to straight underneath the shoulders.

17
00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:56.910
Because I've tilted with my setup posture being a little bit more vertical, it

18
00:00:56.910 --> 00:00:57.520
's often

19
00:00:57.520 --> 00:00:59.700
going to feel like I'm reaching.

20
00:00:59.700 --> 00:01:03.050
So I'll often have golfers kind of exaggerate, almost reaching as far as you

21
00:01:03.050 --> 00:01:03.720
can, trying

22
00:01:03.720 --> 00:01:08.960
to create just this straight line so that there the hands would be from the

23
00:01:08.960 --> 00:01:09.360
down the

24
00:01:09.360 --> 00:01:10.680
line under the hat.

25
00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:14.580
Or if normally you have about a hands width with your regular swing, I'll ask

26
00:01:14.580 --> 00:01:15.160
for about

27
00:01:15.160 --> 00:01:23.480
two hands widths between your belt buckle and the handle, kind of like this.

28
00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:28.720
So it's mostly a setup and a kind of an impact or visual cue, occasionally I'll

29
00:01:28.720 --> 00:01:29.600
take a alignment

30
00:01:29.600 --> 00:01:35.000
stick and put it far enough back so that they won't actually hit it.

31
00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:39.410
But I'll drop kind of that vertical line here and I'll say, okay, don't let

32
00:01:39.410 --> 00:01:40.200
your hands

33
00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:42.040
get any closer in there.

34
00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:47.530
You'll see if I were to pull these arms down, I hit a good shot on that one,

35
00:01:47.530 --> 00:01:48.480
especially

36
00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:55.130
because the sand is a little bit wet and firm, but I could feel how that would

37
00:01:55.130 --> 00:01:55.960
run the risk

38
00:01:55.960 --> 00:01:59.440
and have the potential of getting a little bit more diggy.

39
00:01:59.440 --> 00:02:06.280
So if I have a little bit more kind of width, I got a little close.

40
00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:11.620
It'll feel like I can't, I'll have a hard time getting the club too deep.

41
00:02:11.620 --> 00:02:17.120
This is really one of the ways to really help control depth.

42
00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:21.280
That was a little bit better as I'm getting warmed up, that it really helps

43
00:02:21.280 --> 00:02:22.400
control depth.

44
00:02:22.400 --> 00:02:26.090
I find that this is even more important if you're playing out of really fluffy

45
00:02:26.090 --> 00:02:26.640
sand.

46
00:02:26.640 --> 00:02:30.720
If you're in firm sand, you can get a little bit closer to hit more down into

47
00:02:30.720 --> 00:02:31.700
it, but fluffy

48
00:02:31.700 --> 00:02:34.690
sand and your general bunker shot, you want to feel like you're reaching or

49
00:02:34.690 --> 00:02:35.240
that your

50
00:02:35.240 --> 00:02:39.770
hands are a little bit wider or more up, pretty much forming almost the

51
00:02:39.770 --> 00:02:41.960
straight line at impact

52
00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:44.560
between the shoulder and the golf ball.

53
00:02:44.560 --> 00:02:49.070
When you do that, it'll really help with your consistency of sand contact, not

54
00:02:49.070 --> 00:02:49.680
just the

55
00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:54.080
location as far as behind the ball or in front of the ball, but the depth.

56
00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:59.240
This is one of the really big critical regulators for controlling depth in your

57
00:02:59.240 --> 00:02:59.960
bunker shots.

58
00:02:59.960 --> 00:03:05.920
So if I get further away kind of like that, I can really slide the golf club

59
00:03:05.920 --> 00:03:06.920
underneath

60
00:03:06.920 --> 00:03:12.060
the ball without running the risk of getting too deep.

61
00:03:12.060 --> 00:03:18.400
If I get closer to it, then it will tend to come out a little bit lower.

62
00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:20.920
Again, this is firm sand so I can get away with it.

63
00:03:20.920 --> 00:03:25.940
If it was fluffy, that lat shot might have been a little bit of trouble.