Hi I'm Tom Stickney Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor and today I want to talk to you about that long bunker shot how to hit that long bunker shot. Well it's very difficult to get a long bunker shot with my 60 take a big swing at it if I take a big swing I'm going to tend to bob around and I'm going to tend to jit it a little fat a little thin I can leave in the bunker and I get it over the back of the green. There's a second way to hit a long bunker shot and that's by changing clubs I have my 60 degree sand wedge right here and I might go to my 54 degrees and obviously the same motion is going to make the ball because we're less loft carry that much further. That's a very easy way to do it don't change your swing don't think you're 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 by setting up with the same club that 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 up my angle of attack and I'm going to take the club a little longer lower so I'm going to come in more like this not like that. When I set back in this position lean my spine a bit 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 a little flatter and carry a lot further and then obviously it's going to roll a bit. So what's going to happen is by changing my angle of attack or by changing my club I can affect how the far the ball comes out of this bunker. So experiment with it the most people like changing the club and some people like changing the angle of attack and it just kind of depends on you but either works fine in a pinch.