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Simply draw a line in the sand (about 4 feet long) and then set up at one end of it so that the line is about 2 inches behind your normal ball position. Take a swing as if the ball was there, and simply notice where the club enters the sand, using the line as a reference point. After the swing, step forward a few inches so that you are set up to a fresh piece of the line and repeat. This is a great way to monitor consistency of your club path and location of the low point in your swing. If you have trouble with this drill, look at your weight distribution, the amount of movement of your sternum, and your release.
Tags: Bunker, Impact, Release, Drill, Beginner
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This drill video is the line drill in the bunker.
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Just like there's a famous line drill for practicing your ball striking,
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there's a famous line drill for practicing your bunker shots.
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Essentially what we're going to do is the ball really just gets in the way the bunker is showing.
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So we're going to use a line just as a reference point to our setup to see where the club is entering the sand.
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So we can do a lot of good bunker practice without having a ball there and then as we
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if we pay attention to where the club is entering the sand, all we have to do is put the ball where it's supposed to be.
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If you're taking bunker shots and occasionally you're not hitting the sand,
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we'll now you're asking for a recipe for a disaster.
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Usually that's going to come from having a swing that's coming in either too flat or too shallow,
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but we'll talk about that in the fall of the fixes.
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So I've got this line roughly off my logo here,
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or pretty close to just center of the middle of my stance.
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So what you'll do is you'll practice taking these right handed swings,
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and you'll just notice where is the club entering the sand.
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Now you'll notice with all of these I have a pretty full backswing and I have a pretty full finish.
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As we talked about briefly in the mechanics video,
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you'll never see with the exception of the plug-by.
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You'll never see a good bunker player, have everything just stop rated impact.
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There's a appearance of that in the full swing, you'll never see it in one-carshots.
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They will always have that big full finish where just like the distance wedges and the hands
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are getting up above your chest or somewhere in there.
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So again, up, letting it drop and has it drops that you add a little speed with the right hand,
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not a lot of power from the body.
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So what you can do is you can start just going down the line.
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And if you see that your bottom is swing is kind of jumping all over the place.
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Sometimes here I'll demonstrate.
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Sometimes it's back here, sometimes it's there, sometimes completely miss.
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What you saw, if you're really a student being a good critical thinker,
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what you might have seen when I was trying to make my bottom in the swing move was I was laying my
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upper body move all over the place. Remember, just like the finesse swing, keeping this helps
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control where the bottom of the swing is. If I let this lunge forward, it'll tend to move forward,
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if I let this lunge back, it'll tend to stay back. So getting used to making a swing
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where my throat doesn't move a whole lot. It's going to take a little practice,
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but it's hugely valuable for being consistent in the bunker. So draw a line in the sand,
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do this drill, once a week or so while you're really working on your bunker play,
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and just pay attention to where the ball is, because then once you get good at hitting the sand,
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right where that line is, you can take some swings and just put the ball a couple inches ahead of the
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line and you should hit the nice bunker side.
