Greenside Bunker Distance Tip by PGA Teaching Pro Ged Walters
Greenside Bunker Distance Tip by PGA Teaching Pro Ged Walters

When it comes to controlling the distance of your green side bunker shots there's a couple of things you can do. Now, if we look out here, I've got the blue flag here, which is, I don't know, maybe 25, 30 feet. If I look to this side here, the red flag is a little bit more like 45 feet. Um, now sometimes it might not be feet it could be yards. You could have 40 to 50 yards depending on where the bunker is situated around the green, so club selection becomes really, really key.

If you've got two shots, I've just showed you there, then you can play those shots with the same club, the same loft you normally would, and you can change the length that you move the club in the backswing. But if you've got 40 50 yards, don't be picking your lob wedge or your sand wedge out. Change the club, change the loft and take a pitching wedge take a nine iron, take a gap wedge, because you're using a club with less loft to start with, and you're only opening the club face a tiny little bit. You can execute a normal technique and get that distance for those reall long bunker shots.

2020-08-04

When it comes to controlling the distance of your green side bunker shots there's a couple of things you can do. Now, if we look out here, I've got the blue flag here, which is, I don't know, maybe 25, 30 feet. If I look to this side here, the red flag is a little bit more like 45 feet. Um, now sometimes it might not be feet it could be yards. You could have 40 to 50 yards depending on where the bunker is situated around the green, so club selection becomes really, really key.

If you've got two shots, I've just showed you there, then you can play those shots with the same club, the same loft you normally would, and you can change the length that you move the club in the backswing. But if you've got 40 50 yards, don't be picking your lob wedge or your sand wedge out. Change the club, change the loft and take a pitching wedge take a nine iron, take a gap wedge, because you're using a club with less loft to start with, and you're only opening the club face a tiny little bit. You can execute a normal technique and get that distance for those reall long bunker shots.