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In this video we're going to look at assessing low point in a fairway bunker.

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So fairway bunkers can be a great bodiagnostic tool as well as training environment, especially

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if you're working on low point control.

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So what we can do here is similar to when we do the line drill, I'm just going to lightly

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draw a line perpendicular to my target line.

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Now I'm going to position that line in my ball position.

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So with most irons it's going to be somewhere around my cheek.

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You probably wouldn't do this with a fairway wood but you could do it with a hybrid

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where it would be maybe a touch further forward.

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But what we're going to do is we will be able to see exactly where the club made contact

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with the sand and make adjustments.

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So it's good to have an idea as far as the factors of low point, and basically where is

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my chest in space and where are my arms.

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But this can be a really good diagnostic tool for assessing the degree of how far you're

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hitting a behind or forward.

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From the most part you're going to struggle with hitting too far behind, especially

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out of the fairway bunker.

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So when I can take some practice wings to try to get the low point to start right at the

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front of the line kind of like this.

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So that would look something like that where the low point is starting pretty close to the

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front of the line.

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Then I can do a test where I'm going to hit five balls or so and look at exactly where

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the club is making contact.

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If I tend to have more of excessive upper body movement or scooby movement we can see

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compared to the line that actually made contact about three or four inches behind the ball

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and that's not going to be uncommon when you're doing this for the first time.

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So we're going to try to do a little bit better than that.

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We're going to put the ball at the front of the line and we're going to dig in our left

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foot just a little bit.

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You could dig in both feet first the ability if you're trying to truly assess your

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low point.

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But if we're just trying to get used to this feeling of the hands leading the club head

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long enough and the bottom of the swing far enough out in front then I would recommend

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just digging in the left foot just slightly.

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So now we're going to do a few where we use this low point line as our main focus the

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ball is just going to get in the way.

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So if we look that struck the ground just to the back half of the line.

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That was very good.

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I'd be happy with that result.

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But if I'm getting really picky about where that contacts it my goal is to contact the

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front of the line the width of my golf club creates a little bit more of a channel and

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I'm trying to have the first movement of sand there so that I can still hit seal line

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that one I got just the touch behind it.

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But we don't want to overreact a one particular swing.

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So that's why I like to do this as more of like a five or even ten ball set if I'm doing

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an assessment here.

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So let's do another one focus on that ground contact and that line position.

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So that was a little bit better ground contact sand contact but my release wasn't quite

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as solid so I didn't get the same depth.

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I can use this to assess all different aspects of my low point not just where exactly did

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the club hit the sand.

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So I didn't get as much depth because my wrist wasn't I didn't do quite as much of the

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motor cycle.

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That's why I had a little bit of a low fade to it.

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Alright so we've got that line.

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Now let's see if we can get one good one.

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So that was laser straight if we looked down that first piece of grass is or first piece

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of sand is right at the line.

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I'd be really happy with that one that felt like a really good swing pretty pleased with

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this low point.

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But I'll do this periodically with students who aren't quite feeling where they're hitting

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the grass.

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This will usually make a bigger impact and kind of leave evidence that's easier to tell

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for where you're making contact.

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So if you're not quite sure about your low point hit some shots out of the bunker

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to find out for sure.

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Little bonus you can also do this on 9 to 3s, 10 to 2s that was a little bit bigger than

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my 9 to 3.

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That was pretty good sand contact though.

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So let's try to do it on even a little shorter kind of like that.

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And now I can see some really solid ground contact or sand contact that felt pretty solid.

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This is a great way to get instant feedback for your low point.