Trail Arm Only Bunker Swings

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This bunker drill is the right arm only bunker shots. So in the swing technique

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video we talked about how the bunker shot is very much right-handed. I'm going

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to explain that a little bit more. What you'll tend to see with bunker players

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is when they go into their finish position it'll have speed but it'll

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come in more or less pretty narrow. If I did this with a full swing you can see

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that that would look like a very weak position. Usually if I'm controlling

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stuff with my left arm because it's so far this way as it comes down I'm gonna

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have that shaft lean right. It wouldn't make sense for me to release this way

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if

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I was efficiently using the left side of my body. So good bunker players tend

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to

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have more of a look like so at impact where the left arm and left wrist are

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actually in a weak position and I don't mean weak as in grip strength like weak

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as in kind of the left wrist is collapsed a little bit that left arm

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may be starting to shorten positions that aren't conducive to transferring

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maximum energy. So practicing hitting bunker shots right-handed and then

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putting your left hand on at positions will help you really feel two critical

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things. The most important thing it will help you feel is it's very hard from

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here to create a huge big body turn and so you'll feel a little bit more like

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the right hand is initiating the downswing which is very very good for bunker

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shots. The second thing you'll feel is this kind of passive dropping action of

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the right hand as opposed to an active pulling down. The club gravity will

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almost help that arm start and then you'll speed it up once it's already

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going. And so what you'll tend to see with these shots are actually I've had a

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number of students who we work on right hand bunker shots and they'll say well

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why do I even need to put the left hand on when I'm practicing or sorry when I

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'm

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playing and I say you know it helps stabilize things but many people can

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become very good at just hitting a right-handed bunker shot and then if you can

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put your left arm to kind of help guide it you got kind of the engine that

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could

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for hitting good bunker shots. So we'll see if I can demonstrate a couple for

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you.

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Good so again nice little divot you'll see the the speed continuing and taking

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the club all the way up. So again just letting it drop good and making sure

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that we hit the sand which we'll get into in kind of the troubleshooting

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video if you're not making contact with the sand there's only a couple things

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that you may be doing wrong. One last one right hand drop like so put the left

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hand on. So the one of the big keys for learning the engine is practicing this

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right hand swing you saw it doesn't take a whole massive amount of force the

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way

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to the club because the same wedge is the heaviest club in my bag helps get the

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ball out you just have to get it high enough so it kind of drops like a

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sledgehammer. So this will help you feel the engine make sure to practice this

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along with the setup video.