Tips On Bunker Drills

I want to give you the confidence to get out the bunker first time every time so I'm going to share

with you my five top tips to help you master your bunker shots. Now there are five we all learn

differently we all improve differently so make sure you stick around for all five because one

could just be the answer for you. First things first we've got to have good foundations right

so follow these real simple steps. Now I'm going to show you this from the player cam perspective

because I think you can get a real good sense of what I'm showing you here. I want you to

to open the club face and then take your hold. So your club face is open relative to you, but your

grip is actually the normal grip you would take on every single shot. Then take a nice wide stance

I like to dig my feet into the sand as I do this because it can move under your feet a little bit

So you can see there my stance is just wider than my shoulder width apart. My ball position is a

club head inside my left heel and the final point. And for me, probably the most important point here

to help get that loft point into target just sit down and put the weight left

you are now ready to hit a bunker shot and let's use these drills now

so the first drill is hit the line really easy to set up all i've used is my alignment sticks i've

got one directly on where the gold ball is and then a golf ball back of that i made an impression to create the two lines Just throw your line and stick out of the way So the essential part of this drill is learning to control the bottom of your arc and having a focus point

We don't actually want to hit the ball in the sand. We just want the sand to cushion the ball onto the green

So really nice and simple. Use the forward line to make sure you've got your correct ball position from our foundations

and then simply just create three practice swings, trying to hit the back line and then move into your shot if you go a bit too far back learn from

it and improve it's okay here you go about to put me to the test here and see if i can do it

okay good that one okay that was a little bit far back just reset myself again and really focus on that back line

and now you're ready to go so learn where your bottom of the arc is

and build it into your shot look at the speed we have got at the bottom

one of my favorites that one now number two in our list is about you creating speed with the correct release okay i call this

striking the match so i've drawn the sand here effectively a match box i've got a line in the

middle and that middle line is going to be where we're trying to strike to that

point before where the golf ball is where we're trying to hit into the sand now

nice and simple we have to understand that if we striking a match right and we had a match we have speed right where we contacted the box and off We need the same down the golf ball in order to cushion that ball onto the green

So I want you to do it like this. Now, I am terribly right-handed, so I want you to do this one-handed with both hands

We're not going to hit a golf ball to begin with, so hit those points. Get that correct grip with your face open, but your grip normal to you

put both hands on to start with if you want and then take your right hand off what I'm focusing

on is creating this hitting the line with speed and the loft pointing back at me then have a go

at it right-handed I'm actually worse with this hand than that hand and same again the momentum

of the club allows me to create speed in this direction not like we would in a full shot so

learn that feeling if you need more than two goes to find out what feels best for you go for that

and then have a go at striking one away trying to emulate the exact saying

and you can feel like you're striking that match right at the bottom

the two ball drill quick easy simple let's do it so nice and simple place one golf ball and

and give yourself a good lie, we're learning to play our bunker shots, right? In the sand

The second one, all you're gonna use it to do is create an impression just behind a golf ball behind So press it into the sand take it out and pop it in your pocket if you confident enough just to hit one away afterwards without an

impression in there so i'm making all the same address points as before but all i'm looking at

and i i would stress this as well i focus on that dot in the sand not the ball the dot in the sand

quick easy and simple so so far we've learned to have some speed we've got the correct setup and now we've got the

release the final thing and this drill is great for learning to keep the loft on in the bunker we

need loft to get the club to glide so really nice and simple have a look at this too put your club

into the sand and get a nice healthy chunk of sand on that face the idea here is you're learning to

keep that sand on the club face for as long as possible through that backswing and only throw it

off over your shoulder if you're throwing it off early you're manipulating the face far too much

so have a few goes get that feeling and then just work the same exact feelings into your shot because

you've got everything you need now to help improve your bunker tips so remember the speed remember the laugh remember the setup and let us know down in the comments

what is your favorite drill