Plugged Lie

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This content video is discussing the plug lie.

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So the plug lie bunker shot typically happens when the ball hits into fluffier

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sand.

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Typically when you have a shot that has a lot of spin and the sand is deep and

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fluffy

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and the ball just kind of sits down below the surface.

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So in order to hit the shot, this is not going to be a perfect demonstration

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because

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we have had a bunch of rain.

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So the sand is really thick and you can see even if I step on it a bunch, I can

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't even

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get the sand or the ball below the height of the sand.

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But we'll make do.

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We'll talk about the technique and we'll demonstrate anyway.

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So here we've got a plug lie and the general principle here is I have to get

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underneath

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the golf ball in order to have the sand pop it up.

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So if I was right here and I took my normal bunker shot technique out of this

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thick sand

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or heavy sand, the golf club is only going down a small amount even on a pretty

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good

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shot if I was going to feel like I was going to get underneath this.

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You can see that that only went down maybe a centimeter.

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Well, the golf ball is over an inch deep or over an inch in height.

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If the top of the ball is at the height of the sand, I've got to increase the

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depth

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a bunch.

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So now in theory, I could just lower myself down.

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But typically if I was to do that, I would have to contact the sand so far

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behind it

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would run out of energy.

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So typically what we have to do is we have to get steep and we have to get deep

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underneath

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the golf ball.

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So there's two ways that I teach this.

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One is kind of your easy stock plug lie that I think most people have heard

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before which

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is close the face.

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We're going to take away bounce.

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So if I step on this one, I've got to get this to get underneath the golf ball.

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If I take away bounce, what's going to happen is this is just going to dig

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straight down.

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You can see compared to my original bunker shot, that's going to get a whole

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lot deeper.

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I would also advocate getting a little bit closer so that I can get steeper,

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play the

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ball, touch more back and lean a little bit more left.

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If I do all those, again, this isn't perfect sand for demonstrating this, but I

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've closed

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the face, popped it up.

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It's going to come out low and it's going to tend to have a bunch of run to it.

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So the problem becomes if you have to hit it to a closer flag, it's virtually

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impossible

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using that technique.

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But that is what I would consider the safest and the simplest way to hit these

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plugged

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lie shots.

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Close the face, lean a little bit more left, hands a little bit closer, chop

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down and it's

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going to pop out and it's going to knuckle.

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So you just have to get used to how much that's going to roll, but you can see

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how much deeper

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that was than my stock shot.

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The more advanced way of hitting the shot if I want to try to get some height

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is a riskier

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technique where basically I'm going to try, I'm going to get steep, but I'm

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still going

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to have the club face open.

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Now opening the club face tends to make the expose more bounce so the club

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doesn't get

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as deep.

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So in order to counteract that, I'm going to lower the handle a bunch and try

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to hit

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the heel into the sand.

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Remember the toe, if you remember from the hard pan video, the toe tends to

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skim really

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well.

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You're on when I was on the east coast and you would play in the winter, that

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firm sand,

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opening the face, but playing it off the toe, getting a little bit steeper,

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that can be

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one way to make sure that it's not going to dig so you can get a little bit st

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eeper and

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just kind of slide the club underneath the golf ball.

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Well here, I need to get the opposite to happen.

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So now if I open the face, but I lower it so the toe is off the ground and then

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I get

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still vertical, you'll see that got about the same depth as the one where I had

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the

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closed face.

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So there's a little bit more of a risky or advanced option.

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So I'm going to get hands really low so the toe is off the ground, even though

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the club

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face is open.

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And then I'm going to try and go super vertical and hit the heel into the sand.

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I didn't quite get the height I was going for, it came out you saw.

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Let's see if we can do that one more time, try to get a little bit better

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height.

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So toe off the ground, pick that straight up, hold that face open, dig like

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crazy.

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So straight up, there we go.

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So that probably rolled less than half as far as the club, the closed club face

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version.

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Again, it's definitely a riskier shot.

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Let's kick up a little bit sand so maybe we can demonstrate one more.

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Occasionally you can get it out of the fluffier sand, you can get this to

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actually pop up

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pretty good where maybe it'll roll 10 feet when it releases where the closed

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club face

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version, depending on the green speeds, it can really take off and roll 10

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yards, 20

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yards, it doesn't work when the club is where when the pin is very close.

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So we're going to try that one more time, toe off the ground, almost straight

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up and

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down.

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Club face open, really dig the heel in, not bad, that has a little bit more pop

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and has

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a chance of stopping.

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So that's a riskier one, but if you're kind of a better player and you want to

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have that

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option, I would highly recommend the heel dig for the plugged lie.

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If you're more of a casual golfer, then always default to the simplest version,

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which is

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the closed club face, lean forward, takes almost no technique, but that is

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going to

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run a bunch so it's just know that you're going to have to land it well short

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of your

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target and count on a lot of roll.