One Target, Two Shots

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This game is one target, two shots.

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So one of my favorite ways for developing touch around the greens, and it's

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useful out

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of bunkers, is by hitting a couple different shots to the same target.

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So in this case, we're going to try and hit either two different trajectories

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or two

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different contact locations.

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So I'm going to still provide a little bit of feedback here, but we're trying

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to hit

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it, we'll say, to that 15-year target that's easiest to see from this camera.

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So first one, I'm going to try to hit a little bit of a lower, or like a chunk

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and run, and

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then second shot, I'm going to try to hit more of a shot where I carry it there

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.

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So I can either use the setup changes that we learned, or I can use some of the

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swing

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changes, but I'm trying to just let my kind of inner athlete decide which ones

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feel right

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for this particular shot.

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So first we're going to hit kind of a little bit lower, chunk and run.

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So ball position is just a touch back, is what I'm feeling today, and then,

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well, it

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was the shot I wanted, but not the distance.

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So I ended up close to that 20-yard flag, so because of that, I'm now going to

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challenge

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myself to hit the higher shot to that target, instead of backing up or starting

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over, just

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for fun.

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You can always experiment with, or vary, how you're doing it.

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There are some days where I say, "Nope, we've got to start over and go to the

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15-yard."

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But for this video, let's now try to go to the 20-yard, because I'm playing the

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ball

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a little bit more forward, so today it feels like setup changes are a little

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bit more natural

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for me, so I'm going to play the ball a little bit more forward, a little bit

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bigger swing

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with the face open and contact point, maybe just the touch closer to the ball,

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or it feels

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like that way when I'm getting set up.

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Oh, got kind of underneath it, so that was really high, and that went about 14-

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yard, so

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that would have been really good for the 15-yard shot.

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So now we'll kind of undo it, so I did the 15-yard.

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Now let's redo that first shot, let's redo the chunk and run, so I'm going to

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lean a little

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bit more, feel like I bring the club up a little bit more.

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There's a little bit more of the chunk and run to the same target, so we'll

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just pretend

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that that first ball was a breakfast ball, that's what they do here in the

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States, right?

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Because the second two finished about the same distance with totally different

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trajectories.

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So when you're, there's a little bit more of an advanced game, if you're pretty

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good

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at your standard baselines, then I want to challenge you to get at least two

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different

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shots to the targets.

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You can play around with either setup position, or one of the, you can play

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with different

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clubs, or one of my favorite ones is to play with different kind of tempos or

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even swing

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shapes.

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So I'm going to do one more, one more to that 15-yard target, where I'm going

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to feel like

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I get a little bit wider and almost pick the ball, again that was much closer

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to the 22-yard

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target, but I'm, we'll try that again.

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So I'm going to get a little bit wider, so I'm still vertical a little, kind of

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on the

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tall side, but I'm going to feel wider, more shallow, kind of like that.

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That comes out really low and has some nice run to it.

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That's one of the ways that out of fluffier sand, I feel really confident being

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able to

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get a longer shot out of the club.

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And then now we're going to experiment with maybe a little in between those.

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So similar setup, but now the club's going to come up just a bit.

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Oh, I felt a little slippage in that right foot like I'm standing on a rock.

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Let's try that again.

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Okay, that's why we're practicing.

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So here, yeah, kind of whisked out a little bit on that.

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So anyway, the purpose of this video is to really highlight one of the more

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advanced

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ways that I like to practice, which is picking a single target and

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experimenting, playing

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around with different options in order to hit two different shots.

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So you don't just fall into the trap of only hitting one shot around the green.

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It's less common in the bunker because more often than not, we're just hitting

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a stock

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or standard bunker shot.

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But as you get better, scenarios will change things and you want to be able to

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accommodate.

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So practice hitting two different shots to the same target that will really

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help your

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visualization creativity and your overall shot variability for your bunker game

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One more, it looks like today I'm doing better with the low ones.

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So we're going to do a little bit of the hold it square instead of open it up.

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Good, that's got a bunch of roll.

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And then we'll follow that up with great lie, ball forward, let's go high, high

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kind of

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moon ball close to the same distance there.