Hello.
I'm Brian Fitzgerald The Golf Doctor.
And today we are in a bunker and we are in
a situation where we have very firm hard sand.
I'm going to show you how to get out of it.
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I've been a golf pro now for 33 years.
And I have learned some tricks along the way.
And I come from Melbourne Australia.
Melbourne Australia is very famous for it's
firm hard packed sand.
Here we are.
The ground here is quite firm it's powdery
and it has got a very firm base.
So there are 5 things we need to work on today
to help get us out of this bunker shot.
The first thing we are going to talk about
that you need to know to play this shot from
hard sand is we need to look at the bounce
of the golf club.So if I do what most people
do in a bunker and that is open the club face
up.
You can see this leading edge here is rising.
So if I have a ball on my hand.
And if I am coming down and the back of that
club hits the sand I can't get the leading
edge out if it's firm.
It's ok if there is a lot of sand by opening
the club face the club leading edge doesn't
tend to dig as deeply as what it would other
wise.
So the first thing we really have to do when
we are in here is to get that clubface nice
and square.
There are times when I have closed the club
face because you can see when I close it the
leading edge gets closer down to the back
of my hand.
So it's really important we have that square
club face.
Not open and that helps us to get that leading
edge under the ball from the firm surface.
Ok.
The second thing we need to do is create a
more shallow angle of attack.
If we come down steep on the hard pan and
we hit a few inches behind the ball.It's going
to bounce off that hard sand.
So we want to get that nice shallow angle
of attack.
So if we can do that the leading edge is going
to get under the ball and remember we have
got the leading edge square.
And that is going to assist us in getting
that leading edge under getting the ball up
in the air and out of the bunker.
The third thing we need to do to play this
shot is we need to keep our body pretty quiet.
The more I move my body the harder it is to
make good contact.
Bunker shots are fairly short shots.
This is about a 10 to 15 yard shot.
Something like that.
It's not an extremely steep lip.
So we don't need a lot of power.
But we really do need to make good solid contact.
So I want to keep the lower part of my body
quite still.
So I don't want to start doing that.
As I am standing here I just want to keep
it nice and still.
So that way I am taking just a little bit
of sand.
We don't want to take feel like we are going
to take a big divot.
The fourth thing is we are going to have a
slightly shorter swing than normal.
Because the longer the swing the more inclined
I am going to be more inclined to come down
on a steeper angle of attack and as we have
already discovered step angle of attack makes
it harder to get the ball out of the bunker.
So if I can keep that swing a little bit shorter.
It gives me a better chance to make good contact.
The better the contact the easier this shot
is going to be.
And the fifth thing.
We need a slower swing over all.
The faster I swing the less control I have
got of the club head.
The slower I swing the more control I have
over my club head.
So sure we don't want to decelerate.
We don't want to get here and start quitting
on the shot.
I still want to accelerate but over all we
are keeping the whole swing a little bit slower.
So we will see how I go with this one.
I have my ball just slightly forward that
doesn't change.
My body is going to be quiet.
I have my club face nice and square.
I am going to have a shallow angle of attack.
And I am going to swing it slower.
And there's a pretty good shot.
It came out.
I got a nice little thin scrapping of gr sand
there.
And the ball has come out and it's kicked
to the right.
I should have aimed left.
It slopes left to right.
But the beauty of it is it got out.
We will see if I can do it gain.
I will aim this one a little further left.
The same thing.
The club face square.
The ball slightly forward of center.
Body quiet.
Shallow angle of attack.
And a slow swing.
I am pretty happy with that too.
So there you have it.
There's 5 things that you can do to help play
that bunker shot from the hard sand.
Thank you for letting me help you with your
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I'm Brian Fitzgerald The Golf Doctor.
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