Deb Vangellow
Arrange with a barely open clubface so as to add loft use the bounce angle of your membership. Have the grip and shaft extra straight and centered in your stance in comparison with your common photographs the place you’ll usually be barely forward of middle. The ball must be positioned barely left of middle.
Dig your ft in to ascertain a strong footing with extra knee-flex than your common stance.
Hit behind the ball to permit the sand to splash the shot on to the inexperienced. The sand will get the ball out of the bunker.
Observe via to a full end.
The size and velocity of the swing for the greenside bunker shot will often be better than a shot equal in distance from the grass. It’s because you’ll be transferring sand to get the ball out of a greenside bunker. Examine the sand together with your ft and eyes to get a really feel for the trouble wanted to take the quantity of sand essential to land the ball the specified distance on the inexperienced.
Cathy Kim
Fairway Bunker ShotsWhen hitting out of bunkers, management is essential. While you’re hitting out of a fairway bunker, take one membership extra (assuming you’ll be able to clear the lip in entrance of you), grip down on the membership half an inch and make a three-quarter sized swing as a substitute of a full swing. In the event you’re searching for some stability, dig your ft into the sand simply sufficient to cowl the outsole of your footwear.
Keep in mind, you don’t need to really feel such as you’re “going after it” as soon as your ft are dug in. As an alternative simply swing to comb!
Alison Curdt
Being profitable out of the bunker requires repeatability with how a lot sand you are taking out. Taking too little sand can lead to photographs that fly far over the inexperienced, leading to one other chip and even one other bunker shot! Taking an excessive amount of sand leaves the ball within the bunker.
For apply, draw a small circle across the golf ball (in regards to the measurement of a chocolate chip cookie) and apply attempting to hit out the identical quantity of sand every time. You’ll be a bunker grasp very quickly!
Karen Palacios-Jansen
To hit a strong sand shot, you’ll want to splash a cushion of sand out of the bunker that carries the ball to the outlet. It’s worthwhile to generate a specific amount of clubhead velocity to slip the membership via the sand.
You probably have low clubhead velocity, then the sand will really act as a barrier and cease the membership from transferring via the sand. You could go away the ball within the sand. Do this a couple of instances, then you could attempt to take much less sand; hit the ball skinny and cranium it throughout the inexperienced. Don’t get annoyed, simply get stronger.
Doing squats with a medication ball can assist you improve your decrease physique, core, and forearm energy so to keep your knees flexed all through the shot and, so you’ll be able to energy the wedge via the sand.
Michelle Holmes
For taking part in nice photographs out of fairway bunkers:
1. Membership choice: take the membership that you recognize goes to clear the lip, even when you recognize you’re sacrificing distance.2. Your tackle place ought to seem like a normal iron shot from the golf green versus a greenside bunker shot.3. Stand just a little taller, play the ball just a little extra ahead in your stance, and don’t be afraid to grip down on the membership just a little.4. Keep in mind, hitting it just a little skinny is OK! This thought will allow you to maintain your peak and keep posture all through the swing.
Nancy Quarcelino
No must make bunkers sophisticated! Preserve a sq. stance, maintain a sq. to open membership face, widen your stance, open your goal foot, maintain your goal knee over your goal foot, play the ball place ahead and now decrease your fingers (this transfer squares the clubface to the goal)!
Hit this shot utilizing your wrists and scoop the ball proper out of the sand! End together with your again hand palm up and watch the ball fly proper out of the bunker!
Pete Kelbel
Use a sand wedge. Set your ft barely to the left and work them into the sand an inch. Align the shoulders to the goal with an open clubface. Weight is barely on the entrance facet. The ball is barely ahead of the center.
Make a sluggish Letter L half swing. Splash the sand 2 inches behind the ball and 1 inch beneath the ball, pushing off the rear foot on the identical time. Rotate your trunk to face the goal and end with the clubface excessive above the lip of the bunker together with your proper palm (for right-handers) going through the sky within the observe via.
Christina Ricci
The perfect recommendation or enjoying sand photographs is direct from the late and unbelievable Seve Ballesteros. Get in a low sit like you’re sitting on a low stool together with your decrease physique. Keep this steady seat again and thru. You’ll really feel just like the higher physique is doing all of the work. That’s good.
The important thing, as soon as your decrease is steady, is quick fingers via the sand, making certain a clear thump.
Erika Larkin
Many golfers setup approach too open with their membership and physique and it creates many contact points… Don’t over complicate the setup. Keep sq., use a correct sand wedge, a barely ahead ball place and observe via!!!
If something – as a substitute of opening the face, simply bend your knees and decrease the grip deal with nearer to the bottom. This can improve the loft and expose the “bounce” sole of the membership that can assist you splash it out good and excessive.
Nicole Weller
Preserve it easy for greenside bunker photographs… FLOAT the membership behind the ball, DIG these ft into the sand for agency footing and provides all that sand an excellent SPLASH earlier than and after the place the ball is mendacity. I prefer to think about a circle across the ball and splash that total circle out of the bunker, together with the ball! End excessive and smile as you watch your ball and that sand sail out of the bunker and onto the inexperienced!
Elena King
First – Get fitted with an excellent Sand Wedge!! I discover that almost all of girls I train shouldn’t have the correct tools. A great sand wedge makes it a lot simpler to play out of a greenside bunker.
Second – Thump the sand with velocity, the common clubhead velocity for a greenside bunker is 50MPH. This requires an even bigger swing and extra velocity than most use as a result of they’re scared of blading the ball over the inexperienced. Sand first… then ball!
Susan Vail
If you wish to be tremendous savvy out of the sand – strive my 3 energy performs!
Play #1 – Tackle the ball one inch behind the ball and by no means hear the clicking of the ball contacting the membership. To manage photographs out of the sand, perceive that you simply by no means really make contact with the ball.
Play #2 – Take your full swing. A bunker shot requires transferring a number of sand, and it’s this motion of sand that strikes the ball. Your ball is being lifted onto the inexperienced by the sand so you must decide to taking a full swing…..so long as you don’t hear the ball in any respect, you’ll not hit it too far.
Play #3 – Perceive that your membership is your sand “software”. An open face will slide via the sand whereas a sq. or closed face will dig. When there may be moist sand or little or no sand, for instance, an open face will most definitely glide and find yourself hitting the ball. Attempt utilizing a sq. face to dig no matter sand you’ll be able to, ensuing within the sand transferring the ball.
Good Luck together with your Energy Play from the Sand!
Kathy Hart Wooden
To hit extra constant bunker photographs, you need to management the quantity of sand displaced with every swing. Observe all the time getting into the sand in an identical spot relative to the ball.
If you end up training, draw a line within the sand from the ball to between your ft. First, take swings with out a ball and splash the sand out of the bunker. Discover the place the membership enters the sand relative to the road. Attempt the identical train with a ball. Concentrate on taking a 3/4 size swing and ending in your lead foot in stability.
Stephanie Molloy
Bunker photographs are humorous as a result of these are the one photographs in golf the place we deliberately need to miss the golf ball. For greenside bunkers, the very best arrange is an open stance and an open clubface.
Consider your face open at 2 o’clock and your stance at 10 o’clock. Set your grip solely after you’ve set your stance and your clubface. Then, image taking a greenback invoice’s price of sand behind the golfball!
End your swing as should you’re ending above the pin to assist eradicate any dreaded deceleration.
Anne Rollo
3 steps to simple greenside bunkers.
Purpose to hit the sand 2 inches earlier than the ball
Take a reasonably full swing (not less than 3/4 size)
Commit totally to the shot (give it some energy) and observe via
Discover a apply bunker someplace and spend a while on the above steps and your bunkers will enhance markedly
Nathalie Sheehan
Fairway Bunkers
When enjoying from a fairway bunker, you’ll want to examine that you’ve the right membership for the given state of affairs. So long as you might have room do these 4 issues so as to hit nice fairway bunker photographs:
Grip down.
Lean your weight ahead.
Put the ball barely ahead in your stance.
Preserve your decrease physique quiet all through the swing.
Sara Stephens
The setup components to provide your self the very best probability to hit a excessive, smooth bunker shot embrace placing the ball ahead in your stance, opening the membership face (intention it proper of the goal. The extra open, the upper it can go), and intention your physique left of the goal (additionally open).
Dig your ft into the sand to ensure they’re steady. While you make a swing, give attention to a degree roughly an inch behind the ball and attempt to swing that open clubface into the sand at that spot. You must get a pleasant “splash” sound when the membership face hits the sand and observe via to see that ball come out of the sand excessive & smooth close to the flagstick.
Function Picture of Brooke Henderson on the LPGA KEB Hana Financial institution Championship by Ben Harpring
