Bunker shots: different techniques you can try
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
4.7 • 267 Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Welcome to "Better Golf in 10 Minutes!". This is a weekly series that will cover all facets of game improvement. Every Monday we will help you lower your scores in 10 minutes. Even though these episodes are bite-sized nuggets, they are jam packed with info that will help you play better golf!
Today we are chatting about some different techniques you can try in the bunker.
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| 0:00.0 | right it's better golf in 10 minutes who doesn't want great tips packaged in 10 minutes so you can go to |
| 0:07.8 | arrange and spend your time and practice in the best possible way or the golf course or wherever |
| 0:13.6 | you practice at home lou what you've got a question based for our pod today go on hit us |
| 0:19.5 | what what what were you thinking you've got new glasses on. Have you got new glasses on? Sorry. This is, you don't get, there's no better goal for this. They're very swath, sir. I do. He normally had quite clear light ring. Yeah, like these. Rims. And now he's got like chunky, slender statement glasses. |
| 0:41.1 | Of course, taking 10 years off you, Lou, that is? |
| 0:46.1 | These are like the old Mark Crossford glasses. |
| 0:48.7 | Yeah, I was going to say, that was, that's me and my heyday, that. |
| 0:51.9 | That's like, I was staring thinking thinking is this a mirror or is that |
| 0:55.2 | lose camera anyway way to see your goals high there mate well done did you did you did you have a hey |
| 1:01.7 | day i'm still do i'm still trying to find it actually that's a good point i'm still looking |
| 1:06.8 | it's in the hay somewhere i'm going to find it all right my uh my question and topic today |
| 1:14.0 | for uh our little 10 minute episode is around bunker play and that's uh something that us amateurs |
| 1:20.0 | struggle at significantly and one of the tips that i've heard that i'm curious to talk through |
| 1:25.7 | today is you know most, most people, they get |
| 1:27.8 | into the bunker and they open the stance wide open, they lay the club flat, and they try to play |
| 1:33.4 | bunker shots that way. And for us, amateurs who are oftentimes just trying to get the ball out |
| 1:39.1 | in one, one of the things you can put, you can do is square up your stance, square up the club face, and try to |
| 1:45.7 | approach the shot that way, and it is supposed to help to get the ball out a little bit easier. |
| 1:51.0 | I'm curious what, you know, a golf pro and a playing professional has to say about that |
| 1:57.5 | for us amateur players. |
| 1:58.7 | Yeah, it's a great question. Greg, I want to ask you first, because I have got experience of this technique and I teach it with people and lots of people do. Is it something you've tried personally, Greg? You must have seen other tall players playing with this. You might have yourself. Yeah, yeah, it's definitely in the last, it wasn't the way I was taught. I was taught what loose first talking. |
| 2:18.9 | Yeah, it was, you know, open stance. |
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