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The drill is the narrow backswing in the bunker.

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So I got this drill from Stanotley from his book, whenever that came out ten years ago,

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and it's been very helpful for golfers who tend to have too much of a wide one piece

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takeaway, have too much width at the top of the swing, and as a result, they tend to either

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chunk it or blade it, but they almost always bottom out before the golf wall.

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So to feel an extra narrowness to the swing, you can do it one of two different

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you can get set up, so leaning slightly left, nose basically inline with the golf wall,

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I'm going to hinge the club up towards my nose so that it's kind of

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pointing just between my legs kind of like so, and my arms were pretty close to my side,

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and then I'm going to make a backswing. So this is going to feel very narrow if I'm used to

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making a wide backswing kind of like this, so it would be narrow, make a little backswing pivot,

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and then from here I'm basically going to throw the club down towards the sand,

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getting the bottom of the swing out in front of the golf wall. So I'm going to bring it up,

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make a little turn, and then from here, throw it down towards the sand as long as I go from

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a narrow space and don't overly close the club face, as long as I keep the bounce working,

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I'm going to get out and hit a relatively good shot. The second way, so that's option one,

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hinge it straight up to feel this narrowness in the backswing. The second way is to take one of my

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favorite bunker drills for good players, which is the single arm where the right arm

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bunker shot. So with the right arm bunker shot, if you're any good at all, you'll notice that

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you swing it up a little bit quicker, you don't swing it wide the way you might with a full swing.

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So what you can do is you can do that single arm bunker and then put your left hand on,

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and you'll feel that that is pretty close to where we were just hinging it up. So it's a little

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tougher to do this one in a two piece kind of re-grip and stop from here, but it's definitely possible.

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So once you get it up there, hinge it, get back to setup, try to get right back to there.

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That will tend to feel very narrow, and as long as I get the club to pass and I get the

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bottomless wing slightly out in front of the golf ball, I'll hit a reasonably good shot,

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virtually no chance of bleeding or chunking if I keep it a little bit more narrowed and centered

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at the top of the swing. So try that drill. If you have a tendency to get really wide or too much behind

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the ball, getting basically too shallow for what we're trying to do with a bunker shot.