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Improve Your Bunker Shots with the Line Drill

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Identify where your club enters the sand for better shot alignment
  • Develop a full swing finish that promotes effective sand play
  • Practice without a ball to refine your technique and boost confidence

In this video, you'll learn how to use the line drill in the bunker to enhance your swing and improve your sand shot accuracy. This technique focuses on the club's entry point in the sand, helping you develop a more consistent bunker game.

Video Transcript
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This drill video is the line drill in the bunker. Now just like there's a

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famous line drill for practicing your ball striking, there's a famous line

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drill for practicing your bunker shots. Essentially what we're gonna do is the

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ball really just gets in the way the bunker swing. So we're gonna use a line

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just as a reference point to our setup to see where the club is entering the

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sand. So we can do a lot of good bunker practice without having a ball there

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and

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then as we if we pay attention to where the club is entering the sand, all we

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have to do is put the ball where it's supposed to be. If you're taking bunker

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shots and occasionally you're not hitting the sand, well now you're asking for

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a

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recipe for a disaster. Usually that's gonna come from having a swing that's

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coming in either too flat or too shallow but we'll talk about that in faults

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and

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fixes. So I've got this line roughly off my logo here. We're pretty close to

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just

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center of the middle of my stance. So what you'll do is you'll practice taking

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these right-handed swings and you'll just notice where is the club entering the

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sand. Now you'll notice with all of these I have a pretty full backswing and I

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have

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a pretty full finish. As we talked about briefly in the mechanics video, you'll

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never see, with the exception of the plug lie, you'll never see a good bunker

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player have everything just stop rated impact. There's an appearance of that in

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the full swing, you'll never see it in bunker shots. They will always have that

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big full finish where just like the distance wedges the hands are getting up

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above your chest or somewhere in there. So again up letting it drop and as it

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drops you add a little speed with the right hand, not a lot of power from the

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body. So what you can do is you can start just going down the line and if you

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see

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that your bottom swing is kind of jumping all over the place. Sometimes, here I

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'll

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demonstrate, sometimes it's back here, sometimes it's there, sometimes

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completely

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miss. What you saw if you were really astute and being a good critical thinker,

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what you might have seen when I was trying to make my bottom of the swing

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move was I was laying my upper body move all over the place. Remember just like

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the finesse swing, keeping this helps control where the bottom of the swing is.

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If I let this lunge forward, it'll tend to move forward. If I let this lunge

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back,

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it'll tend to stay back. So getting used to making a swing where my throat

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doesn't move a whole lot, it's going to take a little practice but it's hugely

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valuable for being consistent in the bunker. So draw a line in the sand, do

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this drill once a week or so while you're really working on your bunker play

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and

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just pay attention to where the ball is because then once you get good at

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hitting

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the sand right where that line is, you can take some swings and just put the

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ball a couple inches ahead of the line and you should hit in a nice bunker shot

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.
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Tyler Ferrell is the only person in the world named to Golf Digest's list of Best Young Teachers in America AND its list of Best Golf Fitness Professionals in America.

Improve Your Bunker Shots with the Line Drill

After this video, you'll be able to:

  • Identify where your club enters the sand for better shot alignment
  • Develop a full swing finish that promotes effective sand play
  • Practice without a ball to refine your technique and boost confidence

In this video, you'll learn how to use the line drill in the bunker to enhance your swing and improve your sand shot accuracy. This technique focuses on the club's entry point in the sand, helping you develop a more consistent bunker game.

Video Transcript
WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.220
This drill video is the line drill in the bunker. Now just like there's a

2
00:00:04.220 --> 00:00:08.360
famous line drill for practicing your ball striking, there's a famous line

3
00:00:08.360 --> 00:00:13.640
drill for practicing your bunker shots. Essentially what we're gonna do is the

4
00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:18.000
ball really just gets in the way the bunker swing. So we're gonna use a line

5
00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.680
just as a reference point to our setup to see where the club is entering the

6
00:00:21.680 --> 00:00:26.270
sand. So we can do a lot of good bunker practice without having a ball there

7
00:00:26.270 --> 00:00:26.440
and

8
00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:29.520
then as we if we pay attention to where the club is entering the sand, all we

9
00:00:29.520 --> 00:00:33.240
have to do is put the ball where it's supposed to be. If you're taking bunker

10
00:00:33.240 --> 00:00:37.840
shots and occasionally you're not hitting the sand, well now you're asking for

11
00:00:37.840 --> 00:00:37.880
a

12
00:00:37.880 --> 00:00:41.160
recipe for a disaster. Usually that's gonna come from having a swing that's

13
00:00:41.160 --> 00:00:44.840
coming in either too flat or too shallow but we'll talk about that in faults

14
00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:44.960
and

15
00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:54.440
fixes. So I've got this line roughly off my logo here. We're pretty close to

16
00:00:54.440 --> 00:00:55.440
just

17
00:00:55.440 --> 00:00:59.280
center of the middle of my stance. So what you'll do is you'll practice taking

18
00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:07.680
these right-handed swings and you'll just notice where is the club entering the

19
00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:13.040
sand. Now you'll notice with all of these I have a pretty full backswing and I

20
00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:13.120
have

21
00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:18.440
a pretty full finish. As we talked about briefly in the mechanics video, you'll

22
00:01:18.440 --> 00:01:22.680
never see, with the exception of the plug lie, you'll never see a good bunker

23
00:01:22.680 --> 00:01:28.440
player have everything just stop rated impact. There's an appearance of that in

24
00:01:28.440 --> 00:01:33.200
the full swing, you'll never see it in bunker shots. They will always have that

25
00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:37.080
big full finish where just like the distance wedges the hands are getting up

26
00:01:37.080 --> 00:01:45.200
above your chest or somewhere in there. So again up letting it drop and as it

27
00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:50.280
drops you add a little speed with the right hand, not a lot of power from the

28
00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:54.000
body. So what you can do is you can start just going down the line and if you

29
00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:54.240
see

30
00:01:54.240 --> 00:01:59.040
that your bottom swing is kind of jumping all over the place. Sometimes, here I

31
00:01:59.040 --> 00:01:59.080
'll

32
00:01:59.080 --> 00:02:06.040
demonstrate, sometimes it's back here, sometimes it's there, sometimes

33
00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:07.080
completely

34
00:02:07.080 --> 00:02:13.800
miss. What you saw if you were really astute and being a good critical thinker,

35
00:02:13.800 --> 00:02:17.520
what you might have seen when I was trying to make my bottom of the swing

36
00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:21.640
move was I was laying my upper body move all over the place. Remember just like

37
00:02:21.640 --> 00:02:26.600
the finesse swing, keeping this helps control where the bottom of the swing is.

38
00:02:26.600 --> 00:02:31.400
If I let this lunge forward, it'll tend to move forward. If I let this lunge

39
00:02:31.400 --> 00:02:31.680
back,

40
00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:39.160
it'll tend to stay back. So getting used to making a swing where my throat

41
00:02:39.160 --> 00:02:44.520
doesn't move a whole lot, it's going to take a little practice but it's hugely

42
00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:48.800
valuable for being consistent in the bunker. So draw a line in the sand, do

43
00:02:48.800 --> 00:02:52.400
this drill once a week or so while you're really working on your bunker play

44
00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:53.360
and

45
00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:58.360
just pay attention to where the ball is because then once you get good at

46
00:02:58.360 --> 00:02:58.640
hitting

47
00:02:58.640 --> 00:03:04.160
the sand right where that line is, you can take some swings and just put the

48
00:03:04.160 --> 00:03:07.440
ball a couple inches ahead of the line and you should hit in a nice bunker shot

49
00:03:07.440 --> 00:03:09.360
.
Related topics
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