Hi I'm Tom Stickney Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor and today I want to talk to you about making sure that you handle plugged lies. Now most of the time when you plug the ball in the bunker you have short sided yourself which means that you have don't have a lot of green to work with between your ball and of pin. So what happens is that part is a radically different shot that if I have plenty of green to work with, if I have plenty of green to work with everybody knows where the problem you chop it out there it hits the green it tends to run but let me show you the good situational shot for when the pins cut close to you short sighted yourself. Once again we have a plug lie we're going to set up just the way we do only with an open clubface the open clubface is going to take some heat off the golf ball.

Now all we're going to do is set the club up stick at the ground you notice it makes a huge hole what happens is the velocity of the club is going into the sand and it's not being transferred to the golf ball that's going to help the ball to come out a little bit softer. So once again this is called a stab set up just like you would normally with an open club face pick the club up leaving the bunker and the ball come out a little bit softer. Set stab and you can see that ball just gently floats out lands on the green starts to trickle forward. You can actually get pretty good at stabbing and when you do kind of piddle around with this the more you finish the more velocity is impacted onto the golf ball. So you can also alter the stab just a little bit to get a tumble for just a little bit more but remember this stab is the key to open the club set stick it in the ground if you'll do that I promise you you won't have such a hard time on these touchy little bunker shots it will make it a lot easier.