Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
Our PGA Pro Shows You the Best Way to Hit Those Long Shots from Greenside Bunkers
Hi I'm Tom Stickney golf magazine's top 100 instructor and I want to talk a little bit about that long bunker shot, how did that long bunker shot. Well it's very difficult to hit a long bunker shot with my 60 and take a big swing at it. If I take a big swing I'm going to tend to bob around I am going to tend to hit it a little fat a little thin I can leave in the bunker and I get over the back of the green.. There's second way to long bunker shot and that's by changing clubs I have my 60 degree sand wedge right here I might go to my 54 degrees sand wedge and obviously the same motion that is going to make the ball because of the less loft carry that much further. That's a very easy way to do it so don't change your swing, don't change your your tempo change your club.
Now some people don't like that I am going to give you one other more advanced way to do it, and that's by setting up with the same club you have, I have my 60 and changing your angle of attack. So what I'm going to do here is I'm a lean back just a little bit shallow out my angle of attack and I'm going to take the club a little longer and lower. So I am going to come in more like this not like that when I step back into this position lean my spine a little to the right take the club a little longer and lower. What's going to happen is I am going to take a very shallow divot. The ball is going to carry come out a little bit flatter and carry a lot further and then obviously it's going to roll a little bit. So what's going to happen is by changing my angle of attack or by changing my club I can affect how far the ball comes out of this bunker. So spend the time and experiment with it most people like changing the club and some people like changing the angle of attack it just kind of depends on you, but either works just fine in a pinch.
2019-04-23 Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher
Our PGA Pro Shows You the Best Way to Hit Those Long Shots from Greenside Bunkers
Hi I'm Tom Stickney golf magazine's top 100 instructor and I want to talk a little bit about that long bunker shot, how did that long bunker shot. Well it's very difficult to hit a long bunker shot with my 60 and take a big swing at it. If I take a big swing I'm going to tend to bob around I am going to tend to hit it a little fat a little thin I can leave in the bunker and I get over the back of the green.. There's second way to long bunker shot and that's by changing clubs I have my 60 degree sand wedge right here I might go to my 54 degrees sand wedge and obviously the same motion that is going to make the ball because of the less loft carry that much further. That's a very easy way to do it so don't change your swing, don't change your your tempo change your club.
Now some people don't like that I am going to give you one other more advanced way to do it, and that's by setting up with the same club you have, I have my 60 and changing your angle of attack. So what I'm going to do here is I'm a lean back just a little bit shallow out my angle of attack and I'm going to take the club a little longer and lower. So I am going to come in more like this not like that when I step back into this position lean my spine a little to the right take the club a little longer and lower. What's going to happen is I am going to take a very shallow divot. The ball is going to carry come out a little bit flatter and carry a lot further and then obviously it's going to roll a little bit. So what's going to happen is by changing my angle of attack or by changing my club I can affect how far the ball comes out of this bunker. So spend the time and experiment with it most people like changing the club and some people like changing the angle of attack it just kind of depends on you, but either works just fine in a pinch.
