Adrian Fryer – PGA Teaching Pro
So one of the secrets with fairway bunker shots is number one not to be too greedy. You've got to assess the shot in front of you assess how high the lip is and that's going to make you choose the appropriate club. What you've got to be very careful of as you don't use the too straight face club and drive that ball into the face. Then the success of this shot is very much going to be controlled by your setup is slightly different than hitting a normal shot. I've got a seven iron here and normally I'd hit down on the ball and take a divot off a normal lie but in this instance I'm going to pick the ball off. So to encourage that correct contact I'm going to place the ball further forward in my stance more like a wood. The next thing I'm going to recommend is you choke down the club that's going to shorten the radius so that's going to stop me taking too much sand I'm able to pick the ball off the top.
When I address the golf ball unlike a normal bunker shot you know to bury your stance your just trying to lightly put you feet in the sand here just so you stable enough a slightly wider stance and notice how my weight is slightly further back. All those things are going to encourage more sweeping blow which is going to put more loft on the club. I'm not going to hit down as much and that's going to pick that ball off the top. One of the final little trick you can do is grip it tighter and firm your forearms up and that shortens the radius stops you hitting it in too much sand. Balance is a key make a nice balance swing Don't try to be too ambitious and say you're going to pick the ball off the sand and you'll find if you set up like this you're going to have a lot more success with the shots. So down the club further forearms weight further back balls further forward and I'm going to sweep it off the top like that it came out nice and clean and I got the desired distance and I got it over the lip.
2018-11-26 Adrian Fryer – PGA Teaching Pro
So one of the secrets with fairway bunker shots is number one not to be too greedy. You've got to assess the shot in front of you assess how high the lip is and that's going to make you choose the appropriate club. What you've got to be very careful of as you don't use the too straight face club and drive that ball into the face. Then the success of this shot is very much going to be controlled by your setup is slightly different than hitting a normal shot. I've got a seven iron here and normally I'd hit down on the ball and take a divot off a normal lie but in this instance I'm going to pick the ball off. So to encourage that correct contact I'm going to place the ball further forward in my stance more like a wood. The next thing I'm going to recommend is you choke down the club that's going to shorten the radius so that's going to stop me taking too much sand I'm able to pick the ball off the top.
When I address the golf ball unlike a normal bunker shot you know to bury your stance your just trying to lightly put you feet in the sand here just so you stable enough a slightly wider stance and notice how my weight is slightly further back. All those things are going to encourage more sweeping blow which is going to put more loft on the club. I'm not going to hit down as much and that's going to pick that ball off the top. One of the final little trick you can do is grip it tighter and firm your forearms up and that shortens the radius stops you hitting it in too much sand. Balance is a key make a nice balance swing Don't try to be too ambitious and say you're going to pick the ball off the sand and you'll find if you set up like this you're going to have a lot more success with the shots. So down the club further forearms weight further back balls further forward and I'm going to sweep it off the top like that it came out nice and clean and I got the desired distance and I got it over the lip.
