Improving Your Fairway Bunker Play
Hack It Out Golf
Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner
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🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Mark leads off this episode with a plea: just listen to this episode! The reality is that few golfers ever practice fairway bunker shots, and when they occur in rounds, they're costly (Lou brings the numbers). In this episode, Mark, Lou, and Greg give real advice about how to play fairway bunker shots and how to practice the skills needed to keep them from adding big numbers to your round.
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| 0:00.0 | Let's talk today about maybe, I would argue this has got to be one of the most unpracticed |
| 0:06.4 | parts of golf amongst all demographics, but certainly amateur golfers, I would say this is near |
| 0:15.4 | on, I would say it's near on unpracticed until they're in the situation if we class that as practice. |
| 0:22.4 | So like if they're playing in a round in an evening and they get in this situation, |
| 0:26.7 | then they would class that as they're practicing from it. |
| 0:29.6 | So we're talking today, Fairway Bunkers. |
| 0:32.8 | And I know just before you flip to the next episode, |
| 0:36.3 | just listen to this episode because you're going to gain some shots. |
| 0:39.9 | Because my experience from an audience of golfers, which I've had for years, is you talk about fairway bunkers and they don't care. |
| 0:48.8 | They don't care. |
| 0:49.7 | And I think, out of all, like, you should care. |
| 0:52.3 | I do videos on rough going in the rough out |
| 0:54.7 | i get better people don't like them they don't watch them you go in the rough all the time |
| 0:59.8 | how good you not like so before you think oh this episode isn't for me it is to stick with us |
| 1:05.1 | Greg out of interest uh fairway bunkers do you practice ever or not oh Oh, of course, yes, yes, absolutely. But it's my job. |
| 1:14.3 | So I understand why people, it's less, look, you tend to not practice things that you don't enjoy. |
| 1:21.6 | You know, so you tend to practice things that you're decent at quite often. It's really hard for |
| 1:25.2 | some people to work on things that will actually truly help them. A, probably because they don't know a pathway to getting better at it. And it's hard to like go into something in a fairway bunker or something. Well, what do I do? Or if you don't, you know, if you keep making mistakes. So, yeah, I do practice this. I would say there's a lot of things that amateurs could get better at and would start |
| 1:46.8 | with their brilli to read their lie, judging what clubs they could actually get out of the |
| 1:53.5 | Fairway bunker sometimes as they get closer to the lip, you have less options. |
| 1:57.5 | I've seen a lot of people ask me questions around that that are quite incredible |
| 2:02.0 | sometimes where I might be thinking nine on a wedge they're pulling out hybrid. |
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