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This drill video is understanding bounce. Now, bounce is what makes a sandwich

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so

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special. Gene Sarazin was the one who kind of created bounce. The famous

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story is he played his practice rounds with his club upside down in his bag so

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that none of his playing partners could see and then it came time for the first

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round tournament turned it right set up and he was able to dominate out of the

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bunkers and I believe he won that open. So we can thank Gene Sarazin but the

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bounce is what makes wedge shots have a bigger margin of air than say your full

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swing. So here's how you identify bounce. If you were to hold the club straight

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up

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and down out in front of you and you had a horizontal line the angle between

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that

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horizontal line and the leading edge is roughly the degree of bounce. It's

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actually measured across from the leading edge down but you can get roughly the

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same thing this way. So most of them will say on the club like this is my 58

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with

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12 degrees of bounce. I've got my 54 that has 14 degrees. I've got a 64 that's

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got

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seven. It's not even legal anymore. But anyway the club having a variety of

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different bounce will help you with different shots because the more bounce

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that you have when you go to open the club face it will tend to cause the

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leading

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edge to stick up above the ground. So if I was trying to hit a super flop shot

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on very tight grass when I go to open the face the leading edge is going to be

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up

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and I'm going to have a small margin of air. I might blade this shot. So it's

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good

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to have variety in your bounce but it's also good to understand how we can

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adjust it. So this has again 12 degrees of bounce. The ways that I can increase

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the effective bounce are three-fold. I can open the club face. I can lower the

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handle or I can move the handle back. All three of those put more of this

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bounce side sticking on the ground. The opposite I can close the club face

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raise the handle move the handle forward. Pretty much no bounce there it's all

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gonna be dig. Now what I mean by bounce and dig is basically when the club

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enters

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the ground or hits the ground when the bounce edge or the back edge or the

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trailing edge of the club hits the ground it will tend to kind of skip. It will

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slide along the ground right. It's really easy to see out of bunkers but it

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will

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basically slide like I hit just behind the ball and the club just slid along

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the ground. If the leading edge hits the ground what will happen is it hits it

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and then it is kind of pushed straight down so it goes like this. It doesn't

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really change that drastically but so you can visualize it it catches it and it

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digs down. So what will happen is if I hit a little bit behind the ball with

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the leading edge exposed it takes away a lot of the energy and slows down the

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club. So I'll try to hit about the same amount behind the club again but this

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time with bounce and you'll see that the club just slides. So a lot of these

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short game shots where we want to hit slightly behind the ground or I talk

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about using the bounce we have to make sure that we've either got the handle

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vertical the club face open something to expose bounce so that the club doesn't

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dig. So I hope that helps you understand this bounce concept because we're

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going

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to be using it a lot in our pitch shots our finesse wedges as well as and most

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importantly your bunker shots.