Leave Clubhead in Sand

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This bunker drill is leave the clubhead in the sand.

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So many golfers who struggle with bunker play do so because they try to hit it

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too much

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with their body and a bunker shot is more of an arm shot.

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In order to power it more with your arms or the reason you want to power it

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more with

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your arms is so that the club will pass the handle down at the bottom.

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If you power it too much with the body you're going to have too much shaft lean

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and you'll

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take away bounce and because of that narrow angle you'll then start hanging

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back and that

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combo produces the really bad chunk blade combination.

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So for some golfers who have a really hard time quieting their lower body for

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this specific

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bunker shot I'll give them the task of basically take a swing and just feel

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like you're going

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to throw the clubhead down into the sand and you're going to leave it there.

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Now when it comes to actually hitting the golf ball you'll see that even if I

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try to

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leave it there the momentum of the club is going to tend to come up but it's

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not going

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to have as much lag going into the hitting zone as some of you who really

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struggle with

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your bunker shots.

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So for this little drill you're going to try and smack the sand with a pretty

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aggressive

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right hand but you're going to make sure that the club is going down and you're

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going to

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throw the energy down in front of the golf ball just slightly.

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So I'm going to get in my good bunker setup leaning a little bit left shoulders

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pretty

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level make it narrow backswing and then I'm going to throw the clubhead down

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into the

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sand and I'm going to feel like I'm going to leave it down there but the

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momentum is

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going to bring it slightly through.

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If you have really fluffy sand I have seen that you can do this, I'll try to

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exaggerate

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here, we'll do the best we can.

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You'll see in this sand if I actually leave it there I'm going to have to de

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celerate

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too much but if you have really fluffy sand where you can get the club to go

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very deep

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down into the sand it is possible to leave it there.

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This also becomes a very useful shot when you have a severe uphill lie or if

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you have

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a buried shot on a severe uphill lie because there you want to get a little bit

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steeper

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just like so and by throwing that energy down even on a semi buried uphill shot

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the

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ball will tend to pop out.

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So if you struggle too much with getting shaft lean body rotation and you look

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more

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like this when you see yourself from a face on camera you want to make sure

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that you get

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more of the energy coming from the hands to do that simple image is just

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leaving the

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club in the sand.

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Once you feel comfortable getting the energy going down then you can naturally

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let the

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body go with the club and carry momentum into a better follow through position.