Video Analysis - Analyzing Your Own Bunker Video

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All right, golfers, in this video, we're going to learn how to analyze our

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bunker video.

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So we're going to keep in mind the three main wedge goals of stack centers,

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constant radius,

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which in the bunker program we put in quotation marks, and then smooth force.

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So when analyzing your bunker, we're primarily looking for stack centers, which

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we'll be

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looking at both the height of your upper body on top of your lower body, the

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location from

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the down the line of your upper body on top of your lower body, and what we're

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not seeing

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from these demonstrations, which would be more the face-on view and looking at

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the location

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of your upper body compared to your lower body.

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Smooth force will be kind of looking at more of a fluid motion that's best to

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see at full

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speed, not slow motion, and in this case, there's a little bit less of a cast,

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but there's

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more of a upper body dominant swing.

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You don't see a whole lot of hip drive in the bunker shot.

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And then constant radius, we're really looking at radius control, especially

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down at the

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bottom of the swing.

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When we're analyzing how the club is interacting with the sand, we're looking

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at the entry

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point where the club is actually contacting the sand.

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The low point, so where is the middle of the divot?

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Is it behind the ball, ahead of the ball, even with the ball?

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Or the divot depth?

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We want to make sure that the divot isn't too deep.

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The low point is slightly ahead of the golf ball, and the entry point is behind

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the golf

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ball.

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If we have those three traits, we're probably going to hit some pretty good

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bunker shots.

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When analyzing any shot, you can always start at impact, so we're going to do

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that with

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the bunker as well.

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So we're going to start at impact and kind of work backwards.

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So here at impact, we can see relatively stacked centers, upper body on top of

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the lower body.

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I'd probably get a little bit more on top, but not too bad.

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The shoulder is being a little bit more level now, because the right hand is

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further down

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on the club.

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They won't totally be level, but they won't be as much side bent as we would

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see in even

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the distance wedge or finesse wedge.

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The static picture of head height doesn't really give us a whole lot, but a lot

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of poor bunker

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play comes from the lowering too much, diving down or your upper body getting

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too close to

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the sand, so maintaining a good head height or even increasing it, having very

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minor shaft

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lean at impact.

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So you can see the golf ball is actually off the sand.

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This is just past impact, and you can see that the shaft is already leaning

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slightly

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backward, but you can still see the trail hand on top.

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Potentially, I could get that a little bit more, especially if I was working on

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getting

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some height.

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From the down the line, looking at the body alignments, the forearms and the

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shoulders

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and the thighs still relatively square or parallel, we're not going to see a

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big body

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rotation the way we might in the full swing.

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Here we want to see the arms straight.

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We want to see the handle location, so I would potentially try to get my handle

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a little

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bit higher, more underneath my hat, potentially a little bit down a little low

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there.

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That's the shaft angle to arm height, almost trying to form more of a straight

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line between

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the arms and the club that tends to create better control of depth, helps

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eliminate kind

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of the chunk shot.

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So here we have some pros where we're looking at it from impact.

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You can kind of see real quick snapshot, the arms and the club forming a pretty

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straight

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line with the hands underneath the head or closer to underneath the hat, thighs

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, shoulders,

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everything more parallel there, so not a lot of big body rotation, not a lot of

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disassociation.

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We'll talk about how to get this later in the program as well as in some other

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videos.

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From the face on view, again we can see this stacked shoulders, club fairly

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vertical, hands

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slightly ahead, but right hand on top, right arm fairly straight.

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These are kind of some of the classic traits that we'll see here.

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We'll talk about some of the keys as far as set up, you know, stance width and

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things

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like that, but if you're just taking a quick snapshot of am I struggling with

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contact?

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This is the best view for looking at stack centers and why you might be getting

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the sand

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contact that you're getting.

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Okay, so let's go through some of these easy checkpoints.

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With set up, we're trying to look for relatively square alignment here.

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I don't mind having the shoulders a little bit open, but I don't like to see

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the pelvis

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too open.

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That's kind of an old school way of hitting more of a cut bunker shot.

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The more kind of modern way is a little bit more square pelvis shoulders being

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a little

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open is okay because of the right arm being or the right hand being further

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down the

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grip.

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Arm hanging shoulders compared to some other shots, we're going to have the

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arms hanging

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a little bit further out more under the hat or more under the face as opposed

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to directly

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under the shoulders.

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We're going to have a little bit more knee bend and a little bit more vertical

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torso,

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almost like I'm kind of sitting more like this rather than hinging at the hips.

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So heel toe might look or even feel like it's a little bit more towards the

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heel.

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From the face on position, we want stance wide, almost like driver width or

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wider than our

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shoulders.

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That helps lower us.

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We want the shaft again more vertical, butterfly grip, so I could possibly get

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my right hand

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a little bit more on top, ball position slightly forward, but upper body

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leaning more forward

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so that it's kind of in the middle ish of my body, but in the forward position

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of my

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stance.

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So weight is going to be a little bit more towards the lead leg or left side.

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During the takeaway, we can look at the, this is a great place for looking at

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the grip to

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make sure that the, you had the good butterfly grip.

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One of the ways that you can look at the club head relationship to the hands is

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here you

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can see that the club head or the club face is at an angle compared to the V on

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the right

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hand.

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So I've got a video in the regular site where we look at grip strength at this

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last parallel.

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A neutral grip would have it kind of like this where compared to the V, the

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club is

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a little bit more on the closed side or turn this way.

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So on the bunker shot, we want it to be a little bit more on the weak side like

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that.

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That helps prevent getting too much shaft lean as well as utilizing the bounce.

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So that's the club face angle there.

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We don't like to see a lot of posture body changes because the lower body is

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going to

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be more stable.

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Here we want to see kind of more maintaining the knee flex as opposed to using

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the legs

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dynamically for power or here in the takeaway.

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So the knees are going to stay a little bit more flexed.

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Trail arm is going to be relatively straight.

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I could do a little bit more of that if I got my torso working a little bit

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better there.

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But as far as sway, one of the last things, one of the real killers of bunker

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play is

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creating access to getting your upper body too far off.

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So a lot of people sway in the takeaway that can mess up sand contact.

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And then changing heights too much, either diving down or standing up can

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impact the

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quality of sand contact there.

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So we're trying to get kind of this nice blend of turn tilt where the head

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appears to stay

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at more of a constant height.

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So here, because we haven't had as much lower body rotation, right, because we

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haven't really

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used that right leg to help rotate, we've kept it more kind of in this flex.

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That has the tendency to make everything a little bit steeper, so we still have

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to make

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sure that we get a little bit of arm depth.

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So we don't want to have the arms straight out over the toes, we still want to

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get some

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arm depth there.

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This is a good place for looking at the wrist angles, making sure that you're

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getting a

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little bit of cup there in that left wrist, and the club face being on more of

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the open

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side.

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This is the best position for looking at stacked centers, making sure that your

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upper body

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is still ahead of the center of your stance, and making sure that the knees

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have stayed

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a little bit more flexed, and that we've got a little bit of wrist set to help

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us be prepared

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for kind of powering the downswing, so that we don't get too much of a lower

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body drive

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if your wrists are too fixed in the backswing, which some beginner golfers,

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higher handicap,

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players tend to struggle without a bunker, is not getting enough wrist set.

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That gets everything a little bit wide and encourages a little bit too much

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dynamic lower

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body action, for the bunker shot anyway.

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So transition, we're going to have a minor amount of arm shadowing, but kind of

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keeping

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our body angles, so still in that squat, no big posture change, and still

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maintaining

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the head height.

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This is where that first phase, a lot of golfers tend to have kind of that dive

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down

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and gets you too close to the sand, and then you have to kind of change your

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angles, you

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lose that constant radius.

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So still stacked, if anything leaning a little bit more onto that lead foot

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compared to where

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we were at the top, no big body spin, so you can see thighs are still, knees

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are bent,

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thighs are still kind of facing the camera, they haven't rotated.

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And then I call this the trail foot wall, if you have, this depends a lot on

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stance width,

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but at this kind of checkpoint here, you want to make sure that your hands are

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kind of getting

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closer to on top of or in line with the golf ball.

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If you've shifted in your way back here, then the club is going to have a

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tendency to come

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in kind of more U-shaped or kind of sweeping and having a really long flat

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bottom of this

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wing, as opposed to coming down a little bit sharply.

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So this can be a good little checkpoint, just to see if you've got some narrown

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ess there

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in transition, so that's the grip location there.

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Okay, second piece of transition, getting into a shaft parallel delivery

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position.

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This is a good place to kind of check the club face compared to the hands again

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, I want

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to see the club just slightly outside the hands or even with it.

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So compared to say a driver swing where the club gets inside, that can cause

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the low point

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to get too far back.

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And if it gets too far outside, then usually it would be too diggy and you'll

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again have

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some kind of radius issues on the way through.

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Again, keeping your head height, that's a big key for controlling the depth.

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One of those three keys for controlling kind of that constant radius.

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I mean, I already said a little bit of arm-shallowing that helps avoid getting

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too steep and closing

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in the face, that helps encourage the club face staying open there, as well as

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getting

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things working on a flatter plane.

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Part of the reason why we've sat in this position is to get things working a

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little bit more

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on a flat plane as opposed to on a steep plane.

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That steep plane would have a little bit more tendency to dig.

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Still maintaining our lead leg flex.

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This is where it's easy to fall into a pattern of getting too much leg straight

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ening there,

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which tilts the center's back and causes some contact issues.

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So lead leg flex, upper body's still over that pelvis, and then no big cast.

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There's still an upper body dominant swing, but we don't want to lose those

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wrist angles

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too soon.

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Okay, and then we've already seen these at impact.

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So here we can look at the body alignments.

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We can look at the shaft to the arm line.

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Again, I'd try to get that a little bit higher.

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If I'm nitpicking, I would be a little bit more close with the shoulders and

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the hands

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a little bit higher.

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We can still have a little bit of this trail side crunch, which you don't want

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to see.

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You want to see a little bit of the creasing of this lead side, or sorry, this

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trail side,

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kind of looking more like this.

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Part of what keeps the shoulders levels is more that the hips are working a

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little bit

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more level, kind of turning like this.

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But what can happen is we don't want to get too spinny with the upper body, and

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that's

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where the trail side crunch helps prevent that look.

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Stack centers, minor shaft lean, making sure we're maintaining head height.

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And again, everything being more square to the target line is instead of spun

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open is

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one of the bigger differences in this shot compared to some others.

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And then this is one of the classic positions that we're trying to train, I

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think for a

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lot of golfers, having a finished position of where I want to get to, basically

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, can

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I get into that position there?

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By having the intention of where to get to, that kind of ties together or makes

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the things

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that get you there a little bit easier to implement.

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So this is kind of the look that we're going for, where we still have some knee

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bend, we're

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still stacked.

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I like to see a little bit more chest extension, maybe a little bit straighter,

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right arm, but

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right arm fully straight, working more around.

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And from this, we can't see the club face, but the club face at this point

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would still

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be open.

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It hasn't shut.

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Stack centers, trail arm straight, club face to hands as it's exiting, not

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having a lot

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of rotation, working more as it's coming through, working more this way as

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opposed to twisting

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and having some motorcycle action like we talk about in the full swing and even

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the distance

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wedge.

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Hips being level.

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This is a little tricky to see because of the way that my undershirt is sitting

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there.

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It makes it look like it's more angled, but if you look at this one, you can

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see that the

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hips are relatively level there.

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So, and then as we get to the finish, you can see still maintaining some knee

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flex, still

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maintaining that hip levelness.

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This is a great place to look for a common swing issue for bunkers.

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We want the shaft to exit more down by the ribs if the camera height is good,

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as opposed

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to up through the shoulders and the neck.

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A lot of poor bunker players kind of have an intention to try to lift it.

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And so, what you would see there is the shaft finishes much more vertical.

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So that will move the low point back and you'll end up chunking a lot of shots

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that are hitting

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up on it.

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Body rotation at this point, so there's been, you know, this upper body

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dominant movement

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to get the power there, but then on the way through, it's kind of like more of

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that coast

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action that we see in all the wedge shots where the upper body and the arms

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come through

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together.

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While still maintaining stacked and the hands in front of or even more towards

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the left

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side of the chest instead of releasing out to the right, I would like to see

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that maybe

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just a little bit more down and around, but overall pretty good spots there.

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So let's compare it to some quick analysis of some pro videos.

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So here we'll see club head just outside the hands, club is more open than the

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wrist

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position at impact, arms fairly straight with the club kind of in line.

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And then here we can see exiting out through the bottom of the ribs, club face

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in a still

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open position there.

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Luke Donald, one of the premier bunker players for many years.

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Same thing, club head slightly outside the hands.

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That will vary a little bit by camera height.

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And the challenge here is usually the bunkers are depressed, they're down.

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So the camera is often shooting down, which will make it look like the club is

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coming

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more from the inside, but again fairly straight arm action there and then

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exiting more through

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the bottom of the ribs with the club face open.

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Rory, also pretty good bunker player, club head outside the hands, club face

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slightly

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open compared to that butterfly grip.

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He's a good example of the hands being more kind of like out, partly because of

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this posture

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and partly because of the arms having more of a early action and kind of

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reaching into

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impact to help control depth.

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One of the ways you can control depth is by controlling the radius.

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And if the radius is fully straight, the only way you could go deeper would be

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to lunge forward.

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So if you maintain your height and the arms are fairly straight there at impact

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consistently,

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then you're going to have a much better job of being able to control the depth.

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A lot of bad bunker players kind of dive down and keep some of these angles

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almost too long

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and that really upsets their ability to control the leading edge as well as the

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depth of the

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bottom of the swing there.

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So here we have it exiting outside the ribs with the club face still in that

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open position.

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Adam Scott, you'll see he's a little bit more like mine, not quite as arms up

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and straight.

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And that will tend to accompany a little bit more rounded posture like you see

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in my video.

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So the better you get at kind of extending also the better you can get at

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giving more

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of that chest up that we talk about in the distance wedges and in the finesse

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wedge.

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That extension is a really good way of helping control the depth as well as

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helping with the

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coast aspect of everything coming through together.

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But we'll see the classic checkpoints, slightly outside the hands, club face

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open, pretty good

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there, a little bit more body rotation like I said and then exiting out through

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the ribs

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with the club face still open.

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Okay, so those are just some real quick nitty gritty looking at the different

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pieces for

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analyzing your swing.

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But now let's talk about the common faults and fixes.

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So the fixes are the drills in the rest of the section, but the faults will be

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able to

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identify here on the video.

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So we'll start with the three most common goals of the wedge play and then we

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'll look

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at some specific swing issues that tend to creep in.

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So first one, looking at solid contact, face on view is the best place for

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looking at how

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you're maintaining your stack centers as well as controlling the radius.

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And those have a real big impact on the low point and basically how well you

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can do with

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the line drill.

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So if you can master the line drills where you're getting the club to contact

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the sand

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where you want to, then you're going to hit some really good bunker shots.

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If you're struggling with that, you can use the video to see why.

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Is it a body position or an arm timing and release thing?

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So here we see again the stack centers, still stacked on the way through and

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then the club

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head passing the hand, but the arms fairly straight with that right arm on top,

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all of

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that again limits depth and the club face still being open, which because of

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the, is

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easy to do when you have the butterfly grip, that prevents the club from

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digging too much

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into the sand.

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So that helps with, like if we can master this position here or these two

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positions will

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tend to have really good sand contact.

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So here we see that same stack centers as kind of early as possible,

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maintaining the

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flex to help control the height and then getting that more kind of wristy

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release as opposed

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to a lot of arm straightening that we might see in some other shots.

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Arm is already straight at impact to help really control that depth.

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I think you hear me say that a lot in this video controlling the depth of your

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sand interaction

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is a really big trait or goal for improving your consistency of solid contact.

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So here we see it again, stack centers, good classic finish position, knees

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flexed, club

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fully released, all that looks good.

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Here's my version, not too bad.

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So if you're struggling with solid contact, this is the quick place to go and

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then you

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can circle back to, well, why am I struggling to get that?

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Is it a, you know, down the line issue as far as my path is way off or is it

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more of a tilted

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centers?

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Am I using the wrong part of my body to create the speed?

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But this is the starting point for looking at solid contact.

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Okay, distance control comes down primarily to the length of your swing.

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That kind of good bunker players tend to have more of a longer swing, but kind

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of smooth

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and somewhat lazy.

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So that's the smooth force, length of backswing.

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And then contact location is hard to see on video.

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That's more of something you'll have to experiment with.

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And the loft, the face openness is also a little hard to see on video, but you

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can see

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if the face is rotating a lot, especially on the way through.

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Those can limit your ability to control distance of the other two factors of

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length of backswing

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and smooth force while keeping your stack centers if you're struggling with

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that.

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Okay, so length of backswing.

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This is just top of the swing to end of finish.

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You'll see they typically match that's a trait of more of kind of like a smooth

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gradual acceleration

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rather than having more of like a snappy kinematic sequence.

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So matching backswing and follow through with Donald.

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And you won't see any really short backswings, good bunker players tend to have

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more of this

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long lazy swing.

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He's got a little bit longer movement there in the finish.

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But again, kind of longer, smoother swings.

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That's one of our goals for creating speed the right way and not having to do

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anything

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really explosive with the lower body.

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Now, I included trajectory because that's one of the general goals for all

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wedge shots

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is to control trajectory and spin.

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Out of the bunker, this is way less important than some other shots.

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As in, you out of the rough and S wedges and distance wedges are really honing

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your trajectory

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control.

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We're here.

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We'll tend to have more of kind of a stock trajectory and we really only vary

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it kind

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of in extreme cases to hit it lower.

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So in general, our goal is to hit it more high soft.

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And that comes from lost control, the amount of shaft lean, the location of my

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body as

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well as the width, the timing of the width.

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Kind of if I'm coming down and then release and the club passes very soon, that

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's going

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to tend to go a little bit higher, where if I'm a little bit wider and kind of

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everything

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coming through together, that will tend to launch it a little bit lower.

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So you'll see this was me hitting high shot and me hitting a low shot.

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If you look at them, they look almost identical.

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I know the answer of which one and you can kind of see here, the ball is

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launching a

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little bit lower.

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We're here, it's taking off on kind of a higher angle like that.

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What's easier to look at is you won't even see much change there, but if you

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look at

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the finish on the higher shot versus the lower shot, you'll see that a little

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bit further

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forward and it tends to have more of a short finish to hit the lower shot,

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where the normal

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or the stock or the higher shot is going to tend to have a higher finish.

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But again, trajectory is the least important key.

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I just wanted to include it in case that is something that you're struggling

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with.

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More golfers have a look like this and complain about not being able to hit the

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high shot.

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Typically, if you can hit the high shot, hitting the low shot is not that big

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of a problem.

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Okay, so now let's talk through the common faults that you'll see when you're

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analyzing

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your video.

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Probably the most common is having too much tilt or sway off the ball,

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basically getting

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your upper center behind.

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00:24:44.360 --> 00:24:46.880
If you do that, you will really struggle with the line drill.

513
00:24:46.880 --> 00:24:50.660
You will tend to make contact with the before the first line and the bottom of

514
00:24:50.660 --> 00:24:51.200
the swing

515
00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:53.560
will be behind the golf ball.

516
00:24:53.560 --> 00:24:55.600
You will actually be hitting up into it.

517
00:24:55.600 --> 00:24:58.600
That's the classic move for chunk and blade combination.

518
00:24:58.600 --> 00:25:02.820
It's also often accompanied by too much of a kind of an extension or leng

519
00:25:02.820 --> 00:25:03.840
thening radius

520
00:25:03.840 --> 00:25:07.770
on the way through instead of kind of already having that arm straight and

521
00:25:07.770 --> 00:25:09.000
keeping the radius

522
00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:13.320
of the handle to the club more consistent.

523
00:25:13.320 --> 00:25:17.830
You can struggle with swing playing, especially the two areas that I tend to

524
00:25:17.830 --> 00:25:19.660
see would be getting

525
00:25:19.660 --> 00:25:24.950
too steep from having too much body rotation and not enough kind of arm throw

526
00:25:24.950 --> 00:25:25.520
or on the

527
00:25:25.520 --> 00:25:31.000
way through having too much disconnected arm lift.

528
00:25:31.000 --> 00:25:35.160
So you'll see here the shaft is exiting up through my shoulders and my neck

529
00:25:35.160 --> 00:25:36.160
kind of more

530
00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:41.450
like a regular swing closer to the shoulder plane, where even if I did the two

531
00:25:41.450 --> 00:25:41.760
outside,

532
00:25:41.760 --> 00:25:45.280
it tends to rotate more down at the rib level.

533
00:25:45.280 --> 00:25:49.580
So this, if you're exiting really high, that's a classic sign that I'm kind of

534
00:25:49.580 --> 00:25:50.320
like lifting

535
00:25:50.320 --> 00:25:52.480
in my path is too much in-out.

536
00:25:52.480 --> 00:25:55.270
This can happen from golfers who are really good drivers of the golf ball, but

537
00:25:55.270 --> 00:25:55.720
struggle

538
00:25:55.720 --> 00:26:00.470
out of the bunkers because they're just too good at creating this axis tilt and

539
00:26:00.470 --> 00:26:00.960
can't

540
00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:03.760
take it away for this specific shot.

541
00:26:03.760 --> 00:26:10.290
This is a less common error, but especially if you have trouble with trajectory

542
00:26:10.290 --> 00:26:11.040
and kind

543
00:26:11.040 --> 00:26:17.260
of getting the ball to get up over high lips, you can look at casting or

544
00:26:17.260 --> 00:26:19.160
getting the width.

545
00:26:19.160 --> 00:26:23.190
Remember, we do want this to be more of an armsy swing, but it's a little bit

546
00:26:23.190 --> 00:26:23.800
more kind

547
00:26:23.800 --> 00:26:28.640
of like pulling it down this way as opposed to throwing it out that way.

548
00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:34.350
So it has more of the kind of everything passing down at the bottom as opposed

549
00:26:34.350 --> 00:26:35.280
to losing those

550
00:26:35.280 --> 00:26:37.720
wrist angles too soon.

551
00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:41.960
This is another common problem for golfers who tend to hit a lot of thin shots

552
00:26:41.960 --> 00:26:42.440
or off

553
00:26:42.440 --> 00:26:43.440
the hosel.

554
00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:46.600
Here you can see my body position looks more like a full swing where my hips

555
00:26:46.600 --> 00:26:47.200
have really

556
00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:48.200
rotated.

557
00:26:48.200 --> 00:26:51.000
Here my hips are pointing well out in front.

558
00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:54.720
Often this isn't the best photo, but often this is accompanied by too much

559
00:26:54.720 --> 00:26:55.560
straightening

560
00:26:55.560 --> 00:26:59.960
of the lead leg, and you'll typically have a lot more kind of axis tilt.

561
00:26:59.960 --> 00:27:03.960
You can see that shoulder is way more down kind of like this.

562
00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:09.480
So this can cause the thin one as well as some shanks, so it's really...

563
00:27:09.480 --> 00:27:16.800
It's also, even if you hit it solid, it's really hard to control distance.

564
00:27:16.800 --> 00:27:20.980
This is another really common one, and I'm super exaggerating it, but you want

565
00:27:20.980 --> 00:27:21.400
to look

566
00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:27.620
for any amount of your upper body really dropping or diving down, especially in

567
00:27:27.620 --> 00:27:28.280
transition or

568
00:27:28.280 --> 00:27:33.570
during the release, but this common move of kind of like creating the speed

569
00:27:33.570 --> 00:27:33.960
instead of

570
00:27:33.960 --> 00:27:39.360
just pulling the club down more with the arms, getting the body to pull the

571
00:27:39.360 --> 00:27:40.600
club down causes

572
00:27:40.600 --> 00:27:43.160
you to get too much leading edge contact.

573
00:27:43.160 --> 00:27:47.100
So then you have to narrow the radius, and that creates a whole host of timing

574
00:27:47.100 --> 00:27:47.640
contact

575
00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:48.640
problems.

576
00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:53.530
So watch for your head diving down, that's a really common one that you might

577
00:27:53.530 --> 00:27:54.240
not be aware

578
00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:56.080
of or feel.

579
00:27:56.080 --> 00:27:59.760
And then this club face you can see is pointing down towards the ground.

580
00:27:59.760 --> 00:28:02.440
That's got a lot of motorcycle action.

581
00:28:02.440 --> 00:28:07.160
That tends to make it really hard to have good depth control.

582
00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:13.000
The swing will tend to, like you'll have a instead of...

583
00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:15.640
When the bounce hits the sand, it'll be rough at the bottom.

584
00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:19.360
When the leading edge hits the sand, it'll be a little bit smooth, and it will

585
00:28:19.360 --> 00:28:20.400
tend to

586
00:28:20.400 --> 00:28:21.400
get deeper.

587
00:28:21.400 --> 00:28:24.380
And so what will happen is with this, to avoid it getting deeper, you start

588
00:28:24.380 --> 00:28:25.360
kind of lifting

589
00:28:25.360 --> 00:28:29.960
and then now you get the blade or the chunk shot.

590
00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:35.410
It's also frequently accompanied with a lack of body movement there and kind of

591
00:28:35.410 --> 00:28:36.080
a really

592
00:28:36.080 --> 00:28:41.370
active throw of the right arm towards the target, rather than a throw of that

593
00:28:41.370 --> 00:28:41.720
right arm

594
00:28:41.720 --> 00:28:48.600
kind of down towards the ball, it's kind of more a look like that.

595
00:28:48.600 --> 00:28:51.760
Okay so quick recap.

596
00:28:51.760 --> 00:28:53.280
There's three main traits.

597
00:28:53.280 --> 00:28:54.960
Stack center is probably the most important.

598
00:28:54.960 --> 00:29:00.100
I would say radius control, looking at mastering that line drill, mastering

599
00:29:00.100 --> 00:29:00.960
sand contact.

600
00:29:00.960 --> 00:29:04.860
If you do nothing but train low point, train mastering the line drill, your

601
00:29:04.860 --> 00:29:05.560
bunker play

602
00:29:05.560 --> 00:29:07.640
will get a lot better.

603
00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:11.090
But we're looking at the entry point, the low point and the divot depth with

604
00:29:11.090 --> 00:29:11.520
really

605
00:29:11.520 --> 00:29:13.960
good camera quality.

606
00:29:13.960 --> 00:29:17.880
You can actually see those, but just drawing the lines can help a lot.

607
00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:21.820
And then for mastering distance control and just your overall bunker swing, all

608
00:29:21.820 --> 00:29:22.120
of your

609
00:29:22.120 --> 00:29:25.920
wedge games, we want to make sure that we have some smooth force.

610
00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:28.820
If you're looking at your videos from face on, it's really good for looking at

611
00:29:28.820 --> 00:29:29.640
the stack

612
00:29:29.640 --> 00:29:30.640
centers.

613
00:29:30.640 --> 00:29:35.370
It's really good at looking at impact and making sure that the club is passing

614
00:29:35.370 --> 00:29:36.080
the hands

615
00:29:36.080 --> 00:29:39.560
as opposed to hitting it too much with the body.

616
00:29:39.560 --> 00:29:43.260
And it's really good for looking at, is that trail arm kind of maintaining its

617
00:29:43.260 --> 00:29:43.920
width into

618
00:29:43.920 --> 00:29:48.640
the follow through or has it broken down and kind of tried to lift the shot.

619
00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:53.880
From the down the line, it's really good at looking at the face rotation or the

620
00:29:53.880 --> 00:29:54.320
face openness

621
00:29:54.320 --> 00:29:56.120
at the different points in the swing.

622
00:29:56.120 --> 00:30:00.320
It's good at looking at the low left club head finish.

623
00:30:00.320 --> 00:30:03.350
And it's good at looking at maintaining your head height or having a little bit

624
00:30:03.350 --> 00:30:03.720
more of

625
00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:09.940
a level shoulder turn as opposed to a big kind of Jackson five hip bump and

626
00:30:09.940 --> 00:30:10.520
slide.

627
00:30:10.520 --> 00:30:14.990
Because remember this one, the lower body is much more of a stability aspect

628
00:30:14.990 --> 00:30:16.840
rather than

629
00:30:16.840 --> 00:30:21.440
looking at a power source or working as a power source.

630
00:30:21.440 --> 00:30:22.440
Okay.

631
00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:27.800
Just to tie it together to expectations, if you look at bunker proximity to

632
00:30:27.800 --> 00:30:28.560
hole from

633
00:30:28.560 --> 00:30:32.610
all distances now, I talked about how most bunker shots are in the 15 to 20

634
00:30:32.610 --> 00:30:33.360
yard range.

635
00:30:33.360 --> 00:30:36.440
So that's the kind of the basic bunker shot you want to train.

636
00:30:36.440 --> 00:30:40.400
The best pro is average about seven feet and the worst are 13 feet.

637
00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:43.800
So I see a lot of amateur golfers when I do playing lessons complain about

638
00:30:43.800 --> 00:30:44.680
hitting a bunker

639
00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:47.360
shot to 15 feet.

640
00:30:47.360 --> 00:30:48.920
It's not the end of the world.

641
00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:51.820
What you really want to look at is the strategy of why you ended up in the

642
00:30:51.820 --> 00:30:52.520
bunker shot.

643
00:30:52.520 --> 00:30:56.570
Was it just a bad swing or was I taking on too much of a risk for my skill

644
00:30:56.570 --> 00:30:57.280
level.

645
00:30:57.280 --> 00:31:01.960
But a 15 footer out of a bunker shot is not the worst thing.

646
00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:05.600
The general rule is with bunkers, they are a hazard.

647
00:31:05.600 --> 00:31:09.480
So you want to learn to first get out of the hazard in one shot.

648
00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:11.080
So get out.

649
00:31:11.080 --> 00:31:12.840
Next goal is to get it on.

650
00:31:12.840 --> 00:31:15.280
And then your third goal is to learn how to get it close.

651
00:31:15.280 --> 00:31:19.850
But keep in mind that close from 20 yards is going to be somewhere in that

652
00:31:19.850 --> 00:31:20.640
seven feet

653
00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:25.200
average 10 or seven feet would be exceptional.

654
00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:26.200
That's in the world.

655
00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:31.410
A 10 foot average is actually really good with the worst being 13 feet rounded

656
00:31:31.410 --> 00:31:31.640
up to

657
00:31:31.640 --> 00:31:34.640
about 15 or so.

658
00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:38.840
And if you look at the up and down percentage out of the bunkers, you'll see

659
00:31:38.840 --> 00:31:39.520
that pros are

660
00:31:39.520 --> 00:31:44.040
only slightly better from 10 to 20 yards than they are from 20 to 30.

661
00:31:44.040 --> 00:31:49.750
Like I said, that's because we see the highlights of when pros hit it really,

662
00:31:49.750 --> 00:31:50.920
really good.

663
00:31:50.920 --> 00:31:52.280
Hit it to two feet.

664
00:31:52.280 --> 00:31:56.480
But more often than not, they're hitting it into that 10 to 15 foot range,

665
00:31:56.480 --> 00:31:57.080
which is only

666
00:31:57.080 --> 00:32:02.640
a one in three chance of making it maybe even a little better than that.

667
00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:07.190
But anyway, so for scratch goal, I kind of give the overall goal of getting up

668
00:32:07.190 --> 00:32:07.640
and down

669
00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:14.350
about 50%, which is a little aggressive, but I think scratch golfers, it's

670
00:32:14.350 --> 00:32:15.400
easier to match

671
00:32:15.400 --> 00:32:18.640
tour numbers here than say driving efficiency.

672
00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:22.890
If your goal is to break 80, I give the goal of about one in three, 91 and four

673
00:32:22.890 --> 00:32:23.720
, and then

674
00:32:23.720 --> 00:32:27.800
if your goal is to break 100, the goal is get up and down one in 10.

675
00:32:27.800 --> 00:32:32.920
But really the goal here is to minimize or eliminate the number of fours.

676
00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:36.880
So learning how to get on and to put every single time is a big barrier for

677
00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:37.560
breaking

678
00:32:37.560 --> 00:32:38.560
100.

679
00:32:38.560 --> 00:32:44.040
A lot of people turn bunkers into an automatic trifler quad.

680
00:32:44.040 --> 00:32:49.600
Okay, so that's all you need to know as far as analyzing your own swing.

681
00:32:49.600 --> 00:32:52.810
But I always like to include a little bit of what I take away from doing or

682
00:32:52.810 --> 00:32:53.640
putting together

683
00:32:53.640 --> 00:32:55.920
these video analysis programs.

684
00:32:55.920 --> 00:33:00.680
So oftentimes I end up filming the swing twice or so.

685
00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:05.180
So the first time I did it, you'll see I hadn't really been practicing a lot of

686
00:33:05.180 --> 00:33:06.000
bunkers.

687
00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:09.650
I had a little bit more shift off the ball, and you'll see in the finish

688
00:33:09.650 --> 00:33:10.520
position that

689
00:33:10.520 --> 00:33:13.920
left leg gets a little bit too straight.

690
00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:17.850
So what I was noticing was I was struggling a little bit when the ball was

691
00:33:17.850 --> 00:33:18.680
above my feet

692
00:33:18.680 --> 00:33:24.060
because I was tending to get a little bit too far tilted behind, and I was kind

693
00:33:24.060 --> 00:33:24.800
of chunking

694
00:33:24.800 --> 00:33:27.280
them.

695
00:33:27.280 --> 00:33:31.150
If we look at, you know, after this was about two weeks later because we had

696
00:33:31.150 --> 00:33:32.280
some rain,

697
00:33:32.280 --> 00:33:36.920
but working on that left leg staying a little bit more flexed and working on

698
00:33:36.920 --> 00:33:37.920
getting a little

699
00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:43.760
bit more stacked, again, you can see a much cleaner finish position.

700
00:33:43.760 --> 00:33:49.160
Here I'm still rounded, kind of tilted back, and that left leg is straightened.

701
00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:50.160
We're here.

702
00:33:50.160 --> 00:33:51.160
I'm in that lead leg.

703
00:33:51.160 --> 00:33:52.720
I'm much more stacked.

704
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:56.550
It was much easier for me to hit the higher bunker shot from this technique

705
00:33:56.550 --> 00:33:57.360
after working

706
00:33:57.360 --> 00:34:00.680
on it for a couple of weeks.

707
00:34:00.680 --> 00:34:03.870
From the down the line, you'll see that because of that left leg straightening,

708
00:34:03.870 --> 00:34:04.320
I had more

709
00:34:04.320 --> 00:34:08.010
of an open position because I had been working a little bit more on my driver's

710
00:34:08.010 --> 00:34:08.560
swing, my

711
00:34:08.560 --> 00:34:09.560
full swing.

712
00:34:09.560 --> 00:34:13.350
I was in a little bit more of an open position, and the club was coming from a

713
00:34:13.350 --> 00:34:14.000
little bit

714
00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:16.760
more inside my hands.

715
00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:20.950
Exit wasn't terrible other than we saw from the face-on, kind of a little bit

716
00:34:20.950 --> 00:34:21.480
too much

717
00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:27.700
width, a little bit too much keeping my flexion of my ribs, and a little bit

718
00:34:27.700 --> 00:34:28.520
too much hip

719
00:34:28.520 --> 00:34:29.520
rotation.

720
00:34:29.520 --> 00:34:34.080
You'll see, much better as far as you can still see the thighs.

721
00:34:34.080 --> 00:34:36.520
Shoulders are a tiny bit still open.

722
00:34:36.520 --> 00:34:40.870
Shoulders was coming more from the outside, but shallower, and with the club

723
00:34:40.870 --> 00:34:41.480
face more

724
00:34:41.480 --> 00:34:46.760
in an open position, and then I like this finish sitting into that left leg a

725
00:34:46.760 --> 00:34:46.880
whole

726
00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:48.880
lot better.

727
00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:54.730
I use this because at whatever your level at, if you learn how to use video, it

728
00:34:54.730 --> 00:34:55.320
can help

729
00:34:55.320 --> 00:35:01.680
you streamline your practice so that you don't go chasing too many useless

730
00:35:01.680 --> 00:35:03.320
things or more

731
00:35:03.320 --> 00:35:04.320
style.

732
00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:07.920
After the things that are really the substance, the things that are related to

733
00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:08.560
how solid you

734
00:35:08.560 --> 00:35:14.420
hit it, how far you hit it, how you control trajectory, all the key elements

735
00:35:14.420 --> 00:35:15.960
and key parameters.

736
00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:19.850
So hopefully this video helps you learn how to use your camera as your own best

737
00:35:19.850 --> 00:35:20.480
friend,

738
00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:25.370
or if you're playing with someone and they say, "Hey, you're diving down, you

739
00:35:25.370 --> 00:35:26.240
're falling

740
00:35:26.240 --> 00:35:30.100
backward," you can use that information to know what that means, what it looks

741
00:35:30.100 --> 00:35:30.640
like,

742
00:35:30.640 --> 00:35:35.920
and then which drills or thoughts would help you change how the picture looks.

743
00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:38.600
Changing how the picture looks, knowing how to manage your own swing is one of

744
00:35:38.600 --> 00:35:38.960
the big

745
00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:41.560
steps to being your own best golf coach, and if you're going to do that, if you

746
00:35:41.560 --> 00:35:41.960
're going

747
00:35:41.960 --> 00:35:46.760
to use video, you have to know how to analyze it.