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In this video, we're going to go over the technical aspects of hitting a bunker

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shot.

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So first we're going to cover setup.

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Keep in mind that with a bunker shot, with most shots we're trying to eliminate

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one miss.

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With our delivery with a full swing, we're trying to eliminate a fat shot, we

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're trying

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to hit it solid or thin.

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With a finished shot around the green, if you're hitting more of a chip or bump

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and run,

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again, you're trying to eliminate fat, if you're hitting more of a pitch, you

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're trying

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to eliminate thin.

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For this bunker shot, we're trying to eliminate thin or the bladed shot.

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If we're going to air, we want to make sure that we take more sand and we hit a

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little

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behind the ball.

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So everything we're going to do in setup is going to set up for how we're going

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to

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want to accomplish that and for the sequencing of how we're going to use our

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body during

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the swing.

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Let's just cover setup for this video.

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So essentially, in order to make sure that I hit slightly behind the ball, we

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're going

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to stick with some of the finesse concepts, which is basically we're

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intentionally trying

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to be weak so that we can have a big change cause a small difference in my

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actual shot.

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But in order to hit a couple inches behind the ball, which two inches behind

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the ball

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is kind of the going rate these days, where we want the club to actually enter

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the sand.

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When you take a swing, you're hoping that the club will enter the sand

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basically at

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that line and take about a dollar bill size divot.

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So the first thing I want you to do is we're going to squat a little bit more

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and turn

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our feet out kind of like you're walking like a duck.

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That essentially quiets down the lower body, which we'll get into in the swing

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mechanics

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as to why that's such a good thing for bunker shots.

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So we're squatting and we're coming down to expose some more of the bounce.

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You're going to lean slightly left, again, to stabilize the lower body.

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And then you want to make sure that your hands are more kind of in the center

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of your

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body.

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And let me backtrack when I say we're going to lean slightly left.

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It's not going to be a full upper body lean to the left the way it is with the

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finesse

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shot.

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It's a little bit more of just a lower body slide.

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One of the tendencies that I, or one of the trends that I tend to see is that

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good drivers

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of the golf ball tend to be good wedge players, guys that come over the top

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tend to struggle

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a little bit in the bunkers.

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So I like to think that people who already know how to do a shallow angle of

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attack,

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which is good for driver in long clubs, end up being good bunker players.

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All right.

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It's enough of a little sidebar.

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So we're going to have feet a little wider than shoulder width.

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You want to kind of dig in a little bit.

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You'll notice I've kind of buried myself in the sand dug in.

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You'll learn about that in the evaluating the sand video.

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I'm going to take more or less my normal grip, and then I'm going to take my

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right hand off

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and place it in a very weak position or position where the V is pointing more

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or less at my

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chin or even towards my left ear, depending on what shot I'm trying to hit.

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That, again, helps expose the bounce of the club because the worst thing we can

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do is

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have dig coming in.

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We'll get into that in the swing mechanics video.

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So squat, toes turn out, weak grip.

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And then it's going to be very much an armsy style swing with not a lot of a

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big load

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or dynamic body movement to create the speed.

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It's mostly going to be my arms working kind of in a very soft fashion, which

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we'll get

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into in the swing mechanics video.

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So the simple setups are draw a line roughly in the middle of your stance when

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you're first

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doing this.

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Get your feet turned out, squat position.

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Take a few swings just to see where compared to this line your club is entering

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the sand.

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Once you've done four or five or so, you've got a good idea of where your swing

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right

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now is going to want to strike this hand, and you can move the ball position

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about two

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inches forward of that.

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So those are the simple techniques.

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We'll get into it a little bit more when we go into the swing video, but really

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quick

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checklist, squat, weak grip, smack the sand.

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So work on that for your setup video, and we'll get into the mechanics very

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shortly.