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This drill is low point training in the bunker. So many golfers struggle with their

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bunker play, not just because of where the club hits the sand but because of where

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the club bottoms out. So if I draw a line kind of like so, we know that we want to

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make contact somewhere in that one to two inches behind the golf ball. Now when you

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make contact with sand, you're trying to make contact with the bowed's edge of

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the club and if you look you can see here's the leading edge, here's the

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bounce edge. So you can see that the bounce edge is a good, you know, half inch or so

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behind the leading edge. So for me to put the bounce on that line where I want to

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make contact, it looks to me like I only have about a thumbs width or so or

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maybe even less than that between the leading edge and the golf ball. The key

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here is that not only do I make contact or first make contact with the sand

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right there but that the bottom of my swing is out in front of the golf ball. So

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I want to make sure that the club is traveling down until about two inches in

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front of the golf ball, something like that and then it starts to come back up. If I

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do so, I virtually if I make that low point out in front of the golf ball then

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really all I can the only contact miss I can really circle with is shanks or toe

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whiffs. But if I'm able to get the club to splash the sand and go down all the

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way until in front of the golf ball. So if it makes contact with the sand before

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the golf ball and keeps going down until after it, I've virtually eliminated the

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two big misses which are the chunk and the blade. So to set it up you're just

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going to draw one line and inch the two inches behind the golf ball and then another

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line about two inches in front of the golf ball. So there should be a little bit

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more than a club head width in between those two lines. I'm going to then

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practice not just hitting the sand but hitting the sand and having the club

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continuing to go down so the middle of the divot is roughly even with the

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second line. Once I can do that without a ball, I'm going to step in and try to do it

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with a ball. Weaker grip, nose on top of the golf ball, narrow shot and as long I hope

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you saw that catch the flag. So it contacted the sand just a tiny bit before so it

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didn't have quite as much spin but you can see that the bottom or the middle of the

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divot is pretty much even with the divot. If you go for that pattern and you keep

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working on your ability to get the club to travel down all the way past the

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golf ball you'll be fine. One of the most common problems that I see with bad

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bunker players is that they get shallow. Shallow and most swings is good.

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Shallow and bunker shots is a big problem. So while I want to have a

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flat-tish swing I want to be pretty narrow with a steep angle of attack.

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A lot of bad bunker players do is they get stuck on this back foot so they sway too

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much off the ball or they get the club too far away from them and then it's going to

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be coming up into the golf ball so even if the club contacts the sand in the right

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spot the low point is in the wrong spot and it's a complete disaster. So don't just

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train where the club hits the sand, train the low point being ahead of the golf

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ball if you really want to improve your bunker play.

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That's fine.