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This bunker drill is leave the club head in the sand.

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So many golfers who struggle with a bunker play do so because they try to hit it too

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much with their body and a bunker shot is more of an arm shot.

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In order to power it more with your arms or the reason you want to power it more with

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your arms is so that the club will pass the handle down at the bottom.

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If you power it too much with the body, you're going to have too much chaffling and you'll

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take away bounce and because of that narrow angle you'll then start hanging back.

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That combo produces the really bad chunk blade combination.

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So for some golfers who have a really hard time quieting their lower body for this specific

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bunker shot, I'll give them the task of basically take a swing and just feel like you're

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going to throw the club head down into the sand and you're going to leave it there.

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Now when it comes to actually hitting the golf ball, you'll see that even if I try to leave

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it there, the momentum of the club is going to tend to come up, but it's not going to

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have as much leg going into the hitting zone as some of you who really struggle with your

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bunker shots.

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So for this little drill, you're going to try and smack the sand with a pretty aggressive

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right hand, but you're going to make sure that the club is going down and you're going

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to throw the energy down in front of the golf ball just slightly.

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So I'm going to get in my good bunker setup, leaning a little bit left, shoulders pretty

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level, make a narrow backswing, and then I'm going to throw the club head down into the

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sand and I'm going to feel like I'm going to leave it down there, but the momentum is going

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to bring it slightly through.

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If you have really fluffy sand, I have seen that you can do this, I'll try to exaggerate

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here, we'll do the best we can.

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You'll see in this sand, if I actually leave it there, I'm going to have to decelerate

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too much, but if you have really fluffy sand where you can get the club to go very deep

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down into the sand, it is possible to leave it there.

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This also becomes a very useful shot when you have a severe uphill lie, or if you have

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a berry shot on a severe uphill lie, because there you want to get a little bit steeper

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just like so.

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And by throwing that energy down, even on a semi-barried uphill shot, the ball will tend

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to pop out.

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So if you struggle too much with getting shaft lean, body rotation, and you look more like

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this, when you see yourself from a face-all-in-camera, you want to make sure that you get

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more of the energy coming from the hands to do that, simple image is just leaving the club

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in the sand.

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Once you feel comfortable getting the energy going down, then you can naturally let the

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body go with the club and carry momentum into a better follow-through position.