Steeps & Shallows for Bunkers

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This concept video is balancing the steeps and shallows in a bunker swing. So

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the steeps and shallow balance is a little bit different in a bunker shot than

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it

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is for your full swing. With your full swing the body's a little bit lower and

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more open those are both steep so it's got the side bend to balance it out.

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That

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puts your upper body behind the ball and then your arms are going to be

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straightening and retaining the leg. So the straightening helps shallow,

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retaining

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the leg kind of steepens. You'll notice that you've got a blend of steeps and

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shallows on each one. With the bunker shot we're trying to have the shaft come

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back to pretty much neutral at impact and the bottom of the swing while it's

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ahead of the golf ball the club had passes very quickly so it's got more of a

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circular shape to it. Now we want to be narrow so that we can have the club

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going

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down into the sand but we also want to be flat. So to do that we do a couple

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different things with our setup position. We're gonna play the ball more

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forward

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which helps shallow things out and we're gonna sit more vertically which helps

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shallow things out but then we're also going to get our shoulders more level

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and

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our nose on top of the ball by leaning more into our left quad. So that

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combination steepens things back out and produce a flatter swing but allow me

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to

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get pretty narrow. The arms are going to work on more of a narrow path in the

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backswing as then they're gonna be pretty close to me but I'm going to release

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that narrowness down at the bottom because it's very much a right arm or

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right-handed shot and that shallows things back out. So the big thing is I'm

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a little bit more left in my setup and then I'm a little bit earlier with my

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arm throw. The body position helps me control the bottom of the swing being

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in front of the golf ball and the arm throw helps me keep the face from

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rotating and use the bounce properly so that I can get a relatively long flat

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bottom of the swing and keep the loft on the club so that I can pop it up in

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the air. So we'll demonstrate that steep and shallow, get in that left quad,

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narrow

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during the backswing but on a flatter path because it's a little bit more

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around kind of like so.

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Now most of the time if you struggle with bunkers I'd say 80% of the time it's

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because you get too shallow and the shallowness will either come from

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setting up too far behind the golf ball or swinging the arms too wide early in

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the downswing and then coming up into the golf ball like that. All of those are

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shallows. It is possible there are some golfers who struggle with getting a

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little bit too steep and the golfers who tend to get too steep typically have

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too

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much of a spin and they'll really cut across the ball. So they'll tend to

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shank it, toe shank it and they'll tend to blade more than chunk shots. So if

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you

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find that you fall into one of those patterns look on video and see which you

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need to balance but overall the body is steep by being on top but shallow by

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being more vertical and the arms are shallow by getting thrown early but

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steep because they're coming from a more narrow position not a wide position

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like

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so.