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In this video we're going to go over the mechanics of the bunker shot.

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So hopefully we've been practicing your setup position a few times.

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Feel pretty comfortable kind of down here for hitting a bunker shot.

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I'm going to go over some of the details of what we're actually going to do in the swing.

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And you'll see that there's a reason why it's war pros would rather miss it in a bunker

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than say the thick rough because this shot has a fair amount of margin of air.

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And it gives us a reason we'll go to a chance of getting it close compared to hitting out of the really thick rough where you have a lot less control with the club.

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So you've been working on your setup position, toes out, well squat stance.

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The movement of the golf club for a bunker shot.

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There's a couple things that are really critical.

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One if you remember from the bounce video, our goal is to use the bounce in the bunker so that the club went at enters the sand, just kind of slides underneath the ball and the sand pops the ball out of the sand.

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In order to do that, you have to make sure that you take away the dig.

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If you remember from that bounce video, opening the face, moving the handle back, moving the handle down, all add bounce.

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So when we make contact with a bunker shot, our club is going to be very, very vertical like so, which helps expose the bounce.

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If like a powerful swing, I get a lot of chef lean.

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Now the club is the the face is turned down and the club is potentially going to dig into the sand, which isn't going to be good because now it makes it much harder for me to control how the ball is going to come out.

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So in order to get the club to actually pass the sand, we're going to use more of the finesse swing than we are going to use the full swing.

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Because if I use a full swing, I get a tremendous amount of leg, right?

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And that doesn't work very well with bunkers.

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With bunkers, we actually want a little bit more of a kind of a drop cast.

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So the other little image to start picturing is that you'll rarely see bunker players who take a really short swing and then try and accelerate from there.

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The reason is if I take a very short swing and I create a lot of speed, there's a very good chance I'm going to have that chef lean that we don't want.

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We want the club to essentially pass the hands through impact.

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Okay, so at the bottom of the swing, you can see that the club is actually going past my body and then the speed of the club is going to help me go into my finished position.

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So you rarely see these short swings because you'd create so much load.

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When I played, bunkers shots always felt like kind of a gravity golf type shot.

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Essentially, we're going to get our hands up pretty high and you're just going to let your arms almost drop straight down so that they, where you're just going to let your arms kind of drop, which allows the shaft to pass in the bottom.

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The other really big critical thing for that I see with bunkers shots is we need to have our speed down in the sand, not up here.

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So in the full swing, we're going to start applying the speed here and then we hit the ball and it kind of slows down pretty quickly.

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You tend to see with good bunkers shots that the speed actually looks like it almost increases after they hit the ball.

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That helps get the sand out and that helps control the distance control by establishing a pretty good tempo for me.

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So let's review these setup positions. So squat stance, wall in your ball position for most people it's going to be closer to a driver setup than it's going to be to an iron because if you have the ball too far back, now it's going to be very difficult for me to have a shallow angle of attack with without exposing the dig.

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So anyway, feet turn out squat stance, you're going to take your backswing without having a whole lot of upper body shift, one weight or the other.

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Everything's going to stay more or less centered and then you're just going to let your arms drop and pass your hands so you're going to give it a little bit of speed down at the bottom.

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So I'll work with that with kind of the basics of the bunker mechanics and you'll learn in the drills section how to apply it a little bit better.

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So just keep that in mind, it's a very much a right arm kind of throwing type swing in order to get the shaft to pass at the bottom of the swing.

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So I'll try to do this with the tools and trouble shooting videos having too much shaffling and the bunker is pretty much the kiss of death.

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Like James Seekman talked about in one of the classes I took with him.

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You will never see a good bunker ship was it player in this position getting set up because that's essentially exposing all kinds of dig.

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They will always be more in this straight up and now I completely agree with them.

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So work on getting the right hand a little bit more involved and we'll talk about some of the problems you may face in some of these other drill videos.