Throw Under the Lead Armpit

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This bunker drill is throw under your left or lead armpit so this is a drill

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that I got from James Seachman that works pretty well for golfers who have a

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tendency to get the hand path on the way through going too much out to the

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right

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or into out. That typically takes away bounce and causes the body when the arms

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are extend forward like that it causes the body to want to hang back or move

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backward so it tends to cause kind of like this where at the very least I catch

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them with not a lot of bounce and I hit them really low. So in order to get a

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little bit more leftward path and keep the bounce open we're gonna imagine that

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we're gonna throw a frisbee or throw a ball under our left armpit. So almost

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similar to something we've done with the driver I'm going to get down towards

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impact so right arm only feel and then I'm going to feel like I throw that palm

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underneath my left armpit up towards the sky so it's kind of having a motion

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going more like this where the thumb is pointing away or going into ulnar

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deviation but there's not a lot of rotation and extension like we might do

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in the full swing. So now if I keep that arm out has a feeling kind of like

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that

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and you can hear how well it hits the sand. It's hard to do this single arm but

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you're welcome to give it a try so if I hold this out or even put it on a club

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I can do single arm kind of throwing it over there and then if I put my left

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arm on you'll feel that if you're used to the club going out to the right you

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'll

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feel that your arm is very bent and almost along your side instead of if it

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goes out to the right you'll tend to keep both of those arms straight. Because

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the

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club's going to pass the hands down at the bottom of the shot it's much more

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common for this arm to bend pretty quickly or chicken wing on the way

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through and finish over here kind of in your holster as opposed to out to the

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right like we might do in the full swing. So once I have this feeling of the

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the

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hand going more under and more around I can apply that feeling into my full

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swing now or sorry my full bunker shot. One thing that I've noticed is that

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some

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golfers when they start trying to do this in order to keep the palm up you'll

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see that they start leaning back. You want to make sure that the you stay on

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top of it with your upper body and that you don't get tilting backward because

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that's going to make it really hard to get the bottom of your swing out in

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front

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of the golf ball. So now working around and under getting on top kind of like

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that that's one way to help control the splash and the depth of your bunker

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shot

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if you're a good player or to control solid contact and not getting too

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shallow if you really struggle with bunker shots. So it's a great drill for

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both good players as well as poor skilled bunker players because it combos the

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path working more around as well as the face staying open as long as you

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control

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low point with a little bit more arm sequencing. You're almost guaranteed if

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you make this movement you're going to get out of the bunker shot and it's

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gonna

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help build your feel of how you become really adept with your bunker touch.

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