No Bunker Wipe

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This concept video is there's no bunker wipe.

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So the bunker is one of the unique shots where we don't really want a wipe

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movement.

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Even in the distance wedge, maybe even a little bit in chipping.

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Anytime you want to create more of the power happening from your core and

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getting body

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rotation and some shaft lean, you're going to want to have a little bit of a

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wipe to

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offset it and balance it.

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So with the bunker shot, our goal is to hit behind it or hit a little bit fat

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and our

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goal is to have the club have very little, if any, shaft lean, maybe just a

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touch in

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order to get the bottom of the swing ahead of the golf ball, but not by much.

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So as the club is passing, that's happening primarily from lengthening the arms

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out in

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front of the body where the wipe will tend to create more leading edge contact

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and delay

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the club face catching up with your body.

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So this is one of the few shots where if you tend to get a little bit armsy,

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you can use

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that to your advantage.

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So one kind of like drill that I'll use for golfers who have been training the

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wipe and

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kind of get a little bit excessive with it or apply it here in the bunker,

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which we don't

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want, we're going to feel like the arm is just pinned to our side and we're

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going to

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try and we're not going to pull in and we're not going to kind of lift it up

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with the arms,

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but with the arm pinned to the side, we're going to feel like we straighten it

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and get

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a little bit of a scoop there.

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So you'll see when I finish, the arm is still in front of my body or on the

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right side of

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my body in front of the shoulder as opposed to pulled across like I might do if

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I was

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hitting more of a distance wedge or a fuller shot.

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So the general concept here is we want the release to happen in front of our

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chest instead

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of hitting the ball and then the club catching up with the chest.

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So there's no wipe in the bunker shot.

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A way that you can practice it, trail arm only works really well, but another

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one is

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actually kind of tucking your shirt or using a glove, which I forgot to bring,

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but pinning

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something more on that trail side and then feeling like it just kind of stays

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there and

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it releases while staying on the back side of your body.

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The emphasis here is not so much to keep the arm pinned because I've actually

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had some

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really good bunker players who tend to get almost a little bit cast-y, scoopy

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where that

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arm gets behind kind of like that.

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That is way more preferred than having an overactive body rotation and the arm

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getting

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way in front or doing more of a wipe action.

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You can see that's going to create some shaft lean.

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That is one way to hit kind of more of a picked spinning wedge shot, but that's

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not

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what you want for your default shot.

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So if you're struggling with contact double check and make sure you have an

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overdone, a

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good move for the full swing, the wipe because that can be a real contact

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killer here in

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the bunker.