Horizontal Release

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This drill is horizontal bunker releases so for some golfers they have a really

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hard time feeling the the proper rotation of the clubface in this shot. For

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bunker shots you basically want the clubface to stay more constant or

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basically more open and square especially on the way through. A lot of

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golfers tend to bring it back a little bit more closed come into it closed and

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then either try to open it or without knowing it they actually really close

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it down so they'll tend to do more of this style of release which closes it

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down and causes a whole host of contact problems because you take away balance

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when you close the face. So what I want you to do is if you struggle with that

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clubface you're going to make some horizontal swings just like this where

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it's going to stay basically facing you or facing the sky it's not going to

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turn

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down and face the ground. Now what you're going to do is you're going to add

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the

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timing so you're going to keep it facing the sky as it passes your body so less

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chest rotation and more arm throw. Now that I've got this feeling of kind of

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throwing those arms I'm going to focus on getting the low point ahead of the

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golf ball and I'm going to focus on getting that sound as it comes around but

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the face stays open. If you do so you'll get that good bounce sound and the

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ball

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will pop up pretty quickly that's a good sign that you're managing the face a

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little bit better if you're not quite sure how you're managing the face do a

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horizontal swing so you can feel what it would be like for your face to say

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open which will usually come from a feeling of either the back of the left

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hand staying up or the palm of the right hand facing the sky in that follow

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through instead of that right hand getting on top of the left or the left

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hand the palm facing up. If you do one of those two if you get the too much

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rotation you're going to tend to have bladed shots or really low shots that

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have a low launch and you'll have a lot of trouble when you have a high lip

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that

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you need to carry. So there's a great skill for working on for green side

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bunkers especially when you have to hit it high and soft.