How To Control The Swing Low Point For Bunker Shots by Tom Stickney
How To Control The Swing Low Point For Bunker Shots by Tom Stickney Tom Stickney - A Top 100 Golf Teacher Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher

They hit way behind it the ball jumps 3 feet they pull up they hit the equator of the golf on a go sailing over the back of the green. Well we need to control our low point and make sure that we don't hit the ball thin and fat in the bunkers so let me show you a good way to understand what's going on. If I draw 2 lines in the bunker that represent a snakes so to speak if I hang back or my weight falls back like so I get way behind the line and obviously I'm going to hit it fat and the ball tends to jump you know couple feet in front of me maybe I'll skip off the lip like it did there and exit on the green if I get really lucky.

The 2nd thing that happens is once you fall back and hit it thin and fat the next thing that happens is you start using your hands to try to recover and try to move that low point around. So now you fall back and you try to use your hands to kind of take it out and that's when you get that shot that goes over the back of the green. So remember when you're in the bunker you must make sure you get the snakes you must make sure you go down into the sand if you go down in through the ball the ball will jump out provided that you hit the ground where you want. So if you get a lot of thin and fat shots in the bunker most of the time it's because you're backing up when you back up you start hitting behind it when you started behind it then you start pulling up trying not to hit behind it and you get the ones that sail over the back of the green. So remember as long as you make sure that you get those snakes out with a full finish you are going to be a lot better in the bunkers.

2019-07-09

Tom Stickney - A Top 100 Golf Teacher Tom Stickney – A Top 100 Golf Teacher

They hit way behind it the ball jumps 3 feet they pull up they hit the equator of the golf on a go sailing over the back of the green. Well we need to control our low point and make sure that we don't hit the ball thin and fat in the bunkers so let me show you a good way to understand what's going on. If I draw 2 lines in the bunker that represent a snakes so to speak if I hang back or my weight falls back like so I get way behind the line and obviously I'm going to hit it fat and the ball tends to jump you know couple feet in front of me maybe I'll skip off the lip like it did there and exit on the green if I get really lucky.

The 2nd thing that happens is once you fall back and hit it thin and fat the next thing that happens is you start using your hands to try to recover and try to move that low point around. So now you fall back and you try to use your hands to kind of take it out and that's when you get that shot that goes over the back of the green. So remember when you're in the bunker you must make sure you get the snakes you must make sure you go down into the sand if you go down in through the ball the ball will jump out provided that you hit the ground where you want. So if you get a lot of thin and fat shots in the bunker most of the time it's because you're backing up when you back up you start hitting behind it when you started behind it then you start pulling up trying not to hit behind it and you get the ones that sail over the back of the green. So remember as long as you make sure that you get those snakes out with a full finish you are going to be a lot better in the bunkers.