Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
The shot we're looking to hit here is going to be a nice high flighted sand shot towards the white flag with an extra little bit of back spin. Trying to land the ball and try to get to put the brakes on pretty quickly you could really get a sense of how that ball landed and then stopped quite quickly six eight feet left of the flag, but the way it put the brakes on was very positive. now the way I played that shot was quite particular I wanted to get more spin out of that shot. So I took a particular different setup from my normal bunker shot. So as I stood to the golf ball actually stood a little bit further back away from the ball than I would do for a traditional sand shot and that was with the express idea of trying to get a little bit more spin what we often find when we're playing bunker shots we're told the to swing steep and swing aggressively and hit down on the ball and we get near to the ball here.
When we're gripping down we get close to the ball we get a bit too steep and as we're hitting down into the ball there's a risk that we take too much sand and we drive the club too far down underneath the ball on a very steep angle of attack a big wedge of sand then get stuck between the club face and the ball and if the ball gets a load of sound between the club and the ball it won't necessarily spin a great deal. More sort of jump forwards land and release a little bit almost like that golf ball was plugged but in that respect on that shot I stood further away that encourages a shallow angle of attack the club would be swung slightly more around rather than straight up and down the shallow angle of attack as a club comes into the ball will hit the sand and it will go forwards more with the club rather than downwards more as it goes forwards more there's a small amount of sounds that we twinkled face and ball the ball reacts with the club face better imparting more backspin and like you saw with that shot it spins to a standstill a little bit quicker. So if you want soft sand shots that spin on one day. Focus on standing a little bit further away from the ball shallowing out your angle of attack and your swing playing glancing underneath the ball two inches of sound and when it comes to a standstill it should have a little bit more spin on it.
2018-08-24 Pete Styles – PGA Teaching Pro
The shot we're looking to hit here is going to be a nice high flighted sand shot towards the white flag with an extra little bit of back spin. Trying to land the ball and try to get to put the brakes on pretty quickly you could really get a sense of how that ball landed and then stopped quite quickly six eight feet left of the flag, but the way it put the brakes on was very positive. now the way I played that shot was quite particular I wanted to get more spin out of that shot. So I took a particular different setup from my normal bunker shot. So as I stood to the golf ball actually stood a little bit further back away from the ball than I would do for a traditional sand shot and that was with the express idea of trying to get a little bit more spin what we often find when we're playing bunker shots we're told the to swing steep and swing aggressively and hit down on the ball and we get near to the ball here.
When we're gripping down we get close to the ball we get a bit too steep and as we're hitting down into the ball there's a risk that we take too much sand and we drive the club too far down underneath the ball on a very steep angle of attack a big wedge of sand then get stuck between the club face and the ball and if the ball gets a load of sound between the club and the ball it won't necessarily spin a great deal. More sort of jump forwards land and release a little bit almost like that golf ball was plugged but in that respect on that shot I stood further away that encourages a shallow angle of attack the club would be swung slightly more around rather than straight up and down the shallow angle of attack as a club comes into the ball will hit the sand and it will go forwards more with the club rather than downwards more as it goes forwards more there's a small amount of sounds that we twinkled face and ball the ball reacts with the club face better imparting more backspin and like you saw with that shot it spins to a standstill a little bit quicker. So if you want soft sand shots that spin on one day. Focus on standing a little bit further away from the ball shallowing out your angle of attack and your swing playing glancing underneath the ball two inches of sound and when it comes to a standstill it should have a little bit more spin on it.
