If you approach the ball and it’s a pitch shot kind of distance we have got about 50 yards to go up and over a bunker might be two minds over which club you might take it could be lob wedge, sand wedge, gap wedge, pitching wedge maybe even a nine iron, but often you can tell which club is best to use by looking at quality of the le. If your ball is sitting down in long thick lush grass, we need to make sure we use the right club to not only cut through the grass and to give the ball enough height but to make sure that club does not submarine and bury itself underneath the ball therefore the ball would come off the top edge and come up a bit short. And actually your sand wedge is the best club for this, it’s better designed than the others because it has more bounce, the bounce angle is designed so when you hit into a bunker it won’t submarine and dig down into a bunker but it will also do that nicely when you are on the grass, so the bounce angle hits the base of the soil or the long grass and lifts the golf club back up into the bottom of the ball, and it stops the club digging down too much.

So when you are in the long grass use a sand wedge keep a nice little bit of open club face as well which promotes even more bounce, a nice steep swing don’t be afraid of hitting down trusting that the bounce on the soil is a the thing that will hit the surface of the bottom and come out underneath the golf ball rather than digging and gouging too much of a deep divot. So a sand wedge little bit of bounce back in the stance and hit nicely down and that will be really nice 50 yard pitch shot for you even if the ball is sitting down in quite long thick lush grass.