Video Analysis and Troubleshooting Overview

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Hey golfers, welcome back to the next section in your bunker play program where

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we're building

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your stock bunker shot.

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In this section, we're going to talk mostly about the key drills to practice

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for working

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on your technique.

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So we've talked about in the first couple sections always working on some type

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of setup

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and line drill.

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I think it's most important in this shot to have some type of process to always

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get

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in a similar setup position and always paying attention to the contact location

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or the

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line drill.

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I think it's also then important to work on kind of the core pieces.

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We have the finish position and the backswing position.

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So a lot of good bunker players kind of describe where they're trying to get to

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That encourages things coming through and not stopping or that helps with the

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tempo and

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kind of the smooth acceleration.

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I find that that works really well for my mid-level golfers as well.

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And then a lot of golfers have some sway tendencies or tilt tendencies where

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they get

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off the ball.

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So doing some backswing training with the body pivot or a lot of bunker players

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tend

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to have a problem of getting too wide especially with the wrist and kind of

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like loading up

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like this as opposed to feeling a little bit more narrow.

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Now that narrowness, I don't want it to come from the shoulders, I still want

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them to keep

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some integrity.

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But letting the arms fold can help create more of a vertical path down in the

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ball helps

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with the low point and really helps eliminate the bladed shot.

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For good players, I often like to do the trail arm only swing.

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So you're welcome to try it even if you're a newer golfer and just want to

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experiment.

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I think that was one of Seby's old drills and a classic one on tour.

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Because this swing has a little bit more of an active arm release, when you do

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that trail

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arm drill, you kind of feel the weight of the club helping to release the club

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at the

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right timing.

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So trail arm only is a great way not only to work on kind of the release at the

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bottom,

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but also to feel like the weight of the club is powering the swing rather than

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a lot of

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bad bunker players kind of overpower it or swing too hard.

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Basically they try to mask technique with effort.

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And so the trail arm only is a good way to get technique as one of the main

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ways you're

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controlling your low point.

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And then another great practice drill that kind of helps you just figure some

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stuff out

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is doing 9 iron or even longer.

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But using a longer iron to practice high soft shots, you'll have to exaggerate

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a number

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of these keys.

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You'll have to really shallow things out with your body, you'll have to really

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release

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that arm timing and continue it going around or else you'll shank it.

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You'll have to be stacked if you get too far behind, you'll blade it even worse

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.

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So it really helps encourage a number of the key bunker techniques.

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But if you tried these drills and you're still struggling, you can analyze your

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video.

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And when you're looking at your video, again, we have the two main views of

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face on and

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down the line.

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I primarily use face on for looking at bunker play because that's going to have

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the biggest

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relationship to contact.

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But sometimes down the line will show a couple things that are a little harder

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to see on

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the face on.

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From the face on, you'll see the sway slide tilt and the timing of it.

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That is probably one of the biggest influences for that sand location.

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But the second big influence would be looking at the width.

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So am I coming into the ball kind of wide and casty, oftentimes with a lot of

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tilt?

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Or have I come in more narrow and then kind of released everything with more of

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that splash

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down at the bottom?

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So do I have a wide takeaway or do I have a cast in my downswing?

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Both of those can create too much width, which makes it hard to get the low

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point far enough

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ahead and to have kind of that overtaking of the club past the hands, which

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exposes

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the bounce.

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From the face on, you can also see a lot of effort.

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Is it smoothly powered or is it overly dominantly powered?

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Am I really accelerating forcefully or am I kind of building speed where it's

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kind of

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falling and then getting a little bit more of this kind of smack or slap down

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at the bottom?

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I can also look at my finish position to see am I lunging forward or tilting

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back?

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That's usually a sign of lack of this extension position.

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That's another key component for saying stacked up.

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So this is the best view for looking at that.

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And then looking at is the club passing the hands or does the body lead too

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long?

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Am I coming through kind of like this or am I actually releasing the club and

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letting

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it come around?

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You'll see how in a lot of the swings keeping the width longer helps shallow

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things out.

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That actually shifts the path of the swing more to the right, which moves the

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low point

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backward.

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So a lot of golfers who struggle with the low point getting too far backward

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don't have

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enough around movements.

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And so getting the club to finish or feel like it finishes low left is really

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helpful

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for contact.

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Now that covers I'd say the majority of key issues, but the down the line is

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where we

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can see a couple keys.

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One, we can see the face rotation.

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So on the way through, if you see the face really rotating kind of like that

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either on

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the exit side or coming into the ball, that's a nightmare situation for

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controlling bounce.

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So you can look at the location or the timing there.

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And then lastly looking at the swing plane, so getting too much outside or a

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bigger problem

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coming too much from the inside, you want the club to be coming on a flat angle

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, but

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the club slightly outside the hands.

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And then more importantly, on the finish side, if the club is exiting kind of

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up and out,

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that's going to move that low point backward, that's going to make it virtually

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impossible

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to get the right contact location, as opposed to seeing this thing come even a

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little under

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plane or a little bit more around and kind of finishing over there.

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So that's one of the key concepts that we talked about in influencing the line

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drill

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is the finish position being more out versus around.

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And that's easiest to see from the down the line.

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So when you're troubleshooting, you can look at yourself on video, again, sway

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versus tilt

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is one of the biggest contributors to poor contact.

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Having too much of width or having the club too far wide and kind of sweepy

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versus getting

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more narrow and then getting wide through impact or down at the bottom, the

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club lifting

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into the follow through.

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So from face on, you will get to the point where you can kind of see if it's

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coming more

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like that as opposed to around, but that can be easiest to see from the down

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the line where

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that lifting move tends to bring the club up and out as opposed to releasing it

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more

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down and around.

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That's where the wood chopper drill really comes into play.

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And also looking at the upper body spin and shaft lean.

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So if I'm getting from the face on view, the club coming into the sand kind of

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like this,

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that's going to make it virtually impossible to get the right depth and contact

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location.

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So that's usually a sign that I've kind of too much speed early as opposed to

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letting

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it build and then releasing it down on the way through.

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Believe it or not, even though my goal is to get the speed through the ball,

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one of the

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drills that seems to work on this the best is leave the club in the sand

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because then

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you have to have more of this feeling of kind of like popping the club and

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getting the low

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point ahead of the golf ball as opposed to kind of pulling on the club and

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bringing it

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through.

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Because you're just trying to get the energy more into the club head and

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paradoxically,

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that drill really helps with people who over pull too early.

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From the downswing, swing plane, I would say getting too shallow is a bigger

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problem out

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of the bunker than getting too steep but it could go either way.

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Really looking at the plane in the follow through or again looking at the club

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swinging

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out versus the club swinging around into the left, if it's going too far out,

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you're always

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going to struggle a little bit more with the chunk blade combination.

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Face rotation is huge for kind of controlling the depth.

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So you can check it at the top of the backswing or it kind of delivery but most

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importantly

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is in the finish because that could mean that I'm getting more of this twist as

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opposed

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to kind of more of this under bunker release and that can be influenced by your

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grip.

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If you're really underneath then you'll almost always see a lot of club face

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collision.

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That's one of the main reasons why that grip is so hard for hitting your bunker

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shot.

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And then lastly, we can look at the loss of posture.

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So oftentimes when you get shallow and up kind of like this, that can encourage

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coming down,

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staying in your flexion or having some of this early extension, those both can

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contribute

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to some of your low point but this one especially the early extension version

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can have a big

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influence on your trajectory control as well.

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So hopefully this gives you a little framework for analyzing your video.

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In the last section we will talk about building your bunker practice plan.