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In this video, we're going to troubleshoot some of the common bunker problems

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that I

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typically see.

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And there's really only a couple.

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So if I were to have the golf ball in good setup position, that's where I'm

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trying to

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hit the ball, there's really only two problems I could have.

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One would be I get too shallow and the club is bottoming out, actually it wasn

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't terrible.

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I get too shallow and the club is bottoming out behind the ball kind of like so

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.

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And the other one would be I get too steep and I'm actually hitting the golf

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ball first

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and taking kind of a normal divot while not making contact with the sand first.

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So you may have seen how I was able to exaggerate those two things.

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The first one, which is I struggle with this shot, which leaves the ball in the

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bunker,

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or I just pick it and don't hit the sand, I kind of blade it 40 yards over the

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green.

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Both of those are pretty much a penalty shot.

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So we got to eliminate those.

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The major things that I see with that are if I create most of my speed, well,

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let me put

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it this way.

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And if I have the ball position too far back, that'll cause me to want to back

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up to try

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to get the club underneath or to help it up.

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And it's this tilting to the side so that my hips are way forward compared to

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my upper

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body, which is going to tend to give me that bladed shot, right?

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In fact, doing it a couple of times, you'll start to feel and do it right hand

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only so

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that you don't give yourself kind of negative images with both hands on the

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club.

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But if you're in your good bunker setup position, what you'll tend to see is if

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you're struggling

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with those two shots is in transition, you're either getting too much drop of

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the upper body

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backward or too much slide of the lower body like so.

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Either way, I'm getting my spine kind of tilted too far behind the ball, which

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is very good

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for the driver, not so good for bunker shot.

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With a bunker shot, you're going to stay a little bit more stacked on top of

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the ball,

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upper body more on top of the hips, which will allow kind of this proper path

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and angle

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into the ball, okay?

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So that would be big problem number one.

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Problem number two, so problem number one, since I said that, that's not very

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descriptive,

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right?

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And you guys are critical thinkers here at GolfSmart.

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So when I said that, I mean the upper body tilting backward and getting into

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this axis

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tilt, no good.

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We want to stay pretty stable, upper body stays pretty much centered where it

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starts.

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If anything, I'd rather have it drift a little bit forward as long as the ball

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position's

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far enough forward, you'll be fine.

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The second one is a little trickier, which is where that guy happens, where I

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make contact

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with the golf ball before the sand.

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And maybe you saw what I did, maybe you didn't.

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There's really two ways I typically see us having an issue with this bunker

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shot.

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The first one is probably the most common, which is if you are an over the top

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swinger,

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I already mentioned they tend to struggle in these bunker shots, you're

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creating most

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of your speed from turning your upper body like so.

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Well, if I go to the top of a bunker swing and I turn my upper body, you can

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now see that

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I have a ton of shaft leave my hands get way ahead of the golf ball.

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And so then when the club comes down, I hit the ball before I hit the sand.

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So this player, the right hand only drill, you can actually hold your left hand

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out and

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feel that right hand swinging past as opposed to that left side spinning the

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right side.

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Do you see the difference between the two?

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If you create a ton of spin with a bunker shot, really the only shot you can

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hit is the super

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high flop shot and it takes a special setup in order to accomplish that.

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So the other one that I'll tend to see is if you're creating kind of, you're

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not spinning,

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but you're creating a ton of down cock leg.

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This one's a little more rare, but still possible, so I want to address it.

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If you're creating a ton of this lag or float load or risk cock, that will also

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give you

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the shot where you make contact with the golf ball first, but you'll tend to

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make more solid

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contact than if you're the left side spinner.

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If you're the left side spinner and you're hitting the golf ball first, it's

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going to

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tend to be all over the face or closer to the heel toe misses, that kind of

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stuff.

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If you're doing this one, you'll tend to hit it pretty solid, sorry, this one

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being the

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down cock move.

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If you're doing the down cock move, you'll tend to hit it pretty solid, just

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you'll have

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trouble hitting it high enough and getting the ball to stop.

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It's generally going to go over the green.

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So right hand only I love focusing on your setup, keeping your upper body

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centered, all

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those things, I choked up a little too much on that one.

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Let's get, there we go.

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The arm swinging past your body, speed at the bottom, all those things will

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really help

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turn your bunker game from something you're afraid of to something you're

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actually excited

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to do.