Narrow Backswing

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This drill is the narrow backswing in the bunker.

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So I got this drill from Stan Utley from his book, whenever that came out 10

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years ago,

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and it's been very helpful for golfers who tend to have too much of a wide one-

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piece

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takeaway, have too much width at the top of the swing, and as a result, they

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tend to either

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chunk it or blade it, but they almost always bottom out before the golf ball.

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So to feel an extra narrowness to the swing, you can do it one of two different

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ways.

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You can get set up, so leaning slightly left, nose basically in line with the

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golf ball.

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I'm going to hinge the club up towards my nose so that it's kind of pointing

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just between

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my legs kind of like so, and my arms are pretty close to my side, and then I'm

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going

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to make a backswing.

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So this is going to feel very narrow if I'm used to making a wide backswing

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kind of like

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this.

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So it would be narrow, make a little backswing pivot, and then from here, I'm

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basically

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going to throw the club down towards the sand, getting the bottom of the swing

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out in front

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of the golf ball.

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So I'm going to bring it up, make a little turn, and then from here, throw it

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down towards

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the sand as long as I go from a narrow space and don't overly close the club

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face, as long

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as I keep the bounce working, I'm going to get out and hit a relatively good

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shot.

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The second way, so that's option one, is hinge it straight up to feel this nar

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rowness in

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the backswing.

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The second way is to take one of my favorite bunker drills for good players,

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which is the

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single arm or the right arm bunker shot.

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So with the right arm bunker shot, if you're any good at all, you'll notice

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that you swing

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it up a little bit quicker.

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You don't swing it wide the way you might with a full swing.

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So what you can do is you can do that single arm bunker and then put your left

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hand on.

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And you'll feel that that is pretty close to where we were just hinging it up.

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So it's a little tougher to do this one in a two-piece kind of regrip and stop

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from here,

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but it's definitely possible.

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So once you get it up there, hinge it, get back to setup, try to get right back

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to there,

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that will tend to feel very narrow.

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And as long as I get the club to pass and I get the bottom of the swing

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slightly out

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in front of the golf ball, I'll hit a reasonably good shot, virtually no chance

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of blading

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or chunking if I keep it a little bit more narrow and centered at the top of

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the swing.

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So try that drill.

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If you have a tendency to get really wide or too much behind the ball, getting

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basically

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too shallow for what we're trying to do with a bunker shot.