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In this video we're going to go over the mechanics of the bunker shot. So

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hopefully been practicing your setup position a few times. I feel pretty

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comfortable kind of down here for hitting a bunker shot. I'm going to go over

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some of the details of what we're actually going to do in the swing. And

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you'll see that there's a reason why Torpros would rather miss it in a bunker

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than say the thick rough because this shot has a fair amount of margin of air

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and gives us you know a reasonable good chance of getting it close compared to

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hitting out of the really thick rough where you have a lot less control with

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the club. So you've been working on your setup position, toes out, we'll squat

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stance.

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The movement of the golf club for a bunker shot there's a couple things

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that are really critical. One if you remember from the bounce video our goal

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is to get is to use the bounce in the bunker so that the club when it enters

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the sand just kind of slides underneath the ball and the sand pops the ball out

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of the sand. In order to do that you have to make sure that you take away the

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dig. If you remember from that bounce video opening the face, moving the handle

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back, moving the handle down, all add bounce. So when we make contact with a

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bunker shot our club is going to be very very vertical like so which helps

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expose the bounce. If like a powerful swing I get a lot of shaft lean now the

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club is the the face is turned down and the club is potentially going to dig

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into

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the sand which isn't going to be good because now it makes it much harder for

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me to control how the ball is going to come out. So in order to get the club to

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actually pass the sand we're going to use more of the finesse swing than we are

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going to use the full swing because if I use a full swing I get a tremendous

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amount of lag right and that doesn't work very well with bunkers. With bunkers

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we

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actually want a little bit more of a kind of a drop cast. So the other little

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image to start picturing is that you'll rarely see bunker players who take a

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really short swing and then try and accelerate from there. The reason is if I

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take a very short swing and I create a lot of speed there's a very good chance

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I'm going to have that shaft lean that we don't want. We want the club to

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essentially pass the hands through impact okay. So at the bottom of the swing

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you

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can see that the club is actually going past my body and then the speed of the

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club is going to help me go into my finished position. So you rarely see

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these short swings because you'd create so much load. When I played bunker

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shots

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always felt like kind of a gravity golf type shot. Essentially we're going to

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get our hands up pretty high and you're just going to let your arms almost drop

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straight down so that they or you're just going to let your arms kind of drop

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which allows the shaft to pass in the bottom. The other really big critical

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thing

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for that I see with bunker shots is we need to have our speed down in the sand

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not up here right. So in the full swing we're going to start applying the speed

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here and then we hit the ball and it kind of slows down pretty quickly. You

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tend to see with good bunker shots that the speed actually looks like it almost

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increases after they hit the ball. That helps get the sand out and that helps

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control the distance control by establishing a pretty good tempo for me.

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So let's review these setup positions. So squat stance, ball in your ball

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position for most people it's going to be closer to a driver setup than it's

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going to be to an iron because if you have the ball too far back now it's going

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to be very difficult for me to have a shallow angle of attack without

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exposing the dig. So anyway feet turned out squat stance you're going to take

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your backswing without having a whole lot of upper body shift one way or the

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other. Everything is going to stay more or less centered and then you're just

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going to let your arms drop and pass your hands so you're going to give it a

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little bit of speed down at the bottom. We'll stick with that with kind of the

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basics of the the bunker mechanics and you'll learn in in the drills section

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how

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to apply it a little bit better. So just keep that in mind it's a very much a

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right arm kind of throwing type swing in order to get the shaft to pass at the

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bottom of the swing. You'll see in the faults and trouble shooting videos.

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Having

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too much half lean in the bunker is pretty much the kiss of death. Like James

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Seekman talked about in one of the classes I took with him you will never

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see a good bunker should visit player in this position getting set up because

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that's essentially exposing all kinds of dig. They will always be more in this

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straight up and down I completely agree with them. So work on getting the right

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hand a little bit more involved and we'll talk about some of the problems you

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may face in some of these other drill videos.