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This concept video is balancing the steepest in shallows in a bunker swing.

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So the steepest in shallow balance is a little bit different in a bunker shot than it is

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for your full swing.

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With your full swing, the body is a little bit lower and more open.

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Those are both steepest.

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So it's got the side bend to balance it out.

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That puts your upper body behind the ball.

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And then your arms are going to be straightening and retaining the leg.

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So the straightening helps shallow, retaining the leg kind of steepens.

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You'll notice that you've got a blend of steepest in shallows on each one.

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With the bunker shot, we're trying to have the shaft come back to pretty much neutral

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an impact and the bottom of the swing wall to head of the golf ball, the club had passes

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very quickly.

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So it's got more of a circular shape to it.

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Now we want to be narrow so that we can have the club going down into the sand, but we also

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want to be flat.

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So to do that, we do a couple different things with our setup position.

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We're going to play the ball more forward, which helps shallow things out, and we're

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going to sit more vertically, which helps shallow things out.

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But then we're also going to get our shoulders more level and our nose on top of the ball

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by leaning more into our left quad.

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So that combination, steepens things back out and pre-produce a flatter swing but allow me to

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get pretty narrow.

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The arms are going to work on more of a narrow path in the backswing as then they're

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going to be pretty close to me, but I'm going to release that narrowness down at the

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bottom because it's very much a right arm or right handed shot and that shallow things

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back out.

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So the big thing is I'm a little bit more left in my setup and then I'm a little bit earlier

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with my arm throw.

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The body position helps me control the bottom of the swing being in front of the golf

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ball and the arm throw helps me keep the face from rotating and use the bounce properly.

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So that I can get a relatively long flat bottom of the swing and keep the loft on the club

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so that I can pop it up in the air.

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So we'll demonstrate that steepens shallow, get in that left quad, narrow during the backswing

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but on a flatter path because it's a little bit more around kind of like so.

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Now most of the time if you struggle with bunkers I'd say 80% of the time it's because

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you get too shallow and the shallowness will either come from setting up too far behind

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the golf ball or swinging the arms too wide early in the downswing and then coming up

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into the golf ball like that.

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All of those are shallows.

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It is possible there are some golfers who struggle with getting a little bit too steep

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and the golfers tend to get too steep typically have too much of a spin and they'll

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really cut across the ball.

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So they'll tend to shank it, tow shank it and they'll tend to blade more than chunk shots.

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So if you find that you fall into one of those patterns look on video and see which

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you need to balance but overall the body is steep by being on top but shallow by being

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more vertical and the arms are shallow by getting thrown early but steep because they're

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coming from a more narrow position not a wide position like so.