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this drill video is looking at plugged lies in the bunker. So we're gonna talk

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about the two the two strategies that we tend to see for getting out of a

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plugged lie. The first one, this is my easy one, right? So let's say there's my

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ball kind of fried egg, it's about half plugged. I've got to get underneath

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this

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ball in order to get the sand to lift up. So the easiest way is everything I've

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talked to you about using bounce and adding bounce, making sure that the

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club skips, we're gonna do the opposite. So you'll see very easily, if I play

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this

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ball a little bit more in the middle of my stance and I close the clubface or

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have

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it at the very least square, but you'll see closing the clubface works

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fine. This ball is going to pop out, but it's gonna have a lot of forward

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momentum. Okay, so if I have a good amount of room between myself and the

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flag, that little just popping down into the bunker or into the sand works fine

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,

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you know, I left myself about a five footer there. So and the other thing you

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'll

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see which I talked about briefly in the mechanics video, normally you'll see

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these big full finishes out of the bunker where the hands get up kind of in

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front of your face or in front of your chest up here. With these shots, I can

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pretty much go straight up, straight down, hit a tiny bit behind that. So got

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footer, probably not saving part on that one, but I can pretty much go straight

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up straight down and almost leave this club in the sand. The only problem with

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this technique is the ball runs a lot. So if the pin were closer to me and I

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had to, I really had to get up and down to, you know, make the cut, win the

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tournament, whatever you want to call it, you know, beat my buddy. There's,

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there's

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a technique that's a little riskier, which you'll see more of the tour pros

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do, which I'm gonna teach you, but if you're, if you're anything above a 10

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handicap, I would stick with the close of the clubface because it's just the

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easiest way to get it out there and not take too much risk. So with this shot

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now, I've got the plugged lie. In order to get it to come up a little bit, I

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still

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have to maintain the loft, but by maintaining the loft and keeping the open

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clubface, I now have to come in incredibly steep, which gives me a small

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margin for air. The way that will typically preset some of this steepness

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is getting a little bit more weight leaning into this left thigh, left knee,

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kind of like so, and working very, very vertically with my wrist. Now you can

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see

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from the face-on view, I would get to here and working very, very vertically.

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If

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someone was standing behind me, they're safe because I'm working straight down

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into the sand. It's going to take a lot of energy. There's going to be a pretty

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jarring impact because the club is going straight down and I'm going to have

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almost no follow-through and hopefully the ball is going to pop up a little bit

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softer, but you'll see that it's it's rarely as dramatic as I would need for

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this shot. But hey, sometimes you got to try to pull off the Phil Mickelson

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hero shot, so we'll see how we can do.

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Fell back on that one. Like I said, it's small margin for air.

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So notice how that came out a little bit higher, had a little bit less run.

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Granted, I hit it a little too hard so I ended up with about the same distance

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as my simple little pop shot or the simple little just kind of close the

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club face and get the ball out there. And so that's why I tend to prefer that

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shot unless you have time to really put some practice into this and get really

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good at where the club enters the sand like they do on TV. If you're more of

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your weekend warrior, stick with a closed club face, it'll get you out of the

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pug lie every single time and that's really all we're trying to accomplish

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there. Get it out. Hope you make a putt. Move on to the next hole.