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The Straille video is understanding bounce.

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Now, bounce is what makes a sand wedge so special.

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Gene's Arizona was the one who kind of created bounce.

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The famous story is he played his practice rounds with his club upside down in his

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bag so that none of his playing partners could see and then came time for the first round

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tournament, turned it right side up, and he was able to dominate out of the bunkers

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and I believe he won that open.

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So we can thank Gene's Arizona but the bounce is what makes wedge shots have a bigger

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margin of air than say your full swing.

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So here's how you identify bounce.

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If you were to hold the club straight up and down out in front of you and you had a horizontal

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line that angle between that horizontal line and the leading edge is roughly the degree

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of bounce.

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It's actually measured across from the leading edge down but you can get roughly the

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same thing this way.

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So first of them will say on the club like this is my 58 with 12 degrees of bounce.

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I've got my 54 that has 14 degrees.

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I've got a 64 that's got 7, it's not even legal anymore.

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But anyway, the club having a variety of different bounce will help you with different shots

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because the more bounce that you have when you go to open the club face, it will tend

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to cause the leading edge to stick up above the ground.

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So if I was trying to hit a super flop shot on very tight grass when I go to open the

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face, the leading edge is going to be up and I'm going to have a small margin error.

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I might blade this shot.

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So it's good to have a variety in your bounce but it's also good to understand how we

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can adjust it.

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So this has again 12 degrees of bounce.

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The ways that I can increase the effective bounce are threefold.

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I can open the club face.

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I can lower the handle or I can move the handle back.

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All three of those put more of this bounce side sticking on the ground.

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The opposite, I can close the club face, raise the handle, move the handle forward.

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Pretty much no bounce there, it's all going to be dig.

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Now what I mean by bounce and dig is basically when the club enters the ground or hits

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the ground.

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The bounce edge or the back edge or the trailing edge of the club hits the ground, it

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will tend to kind of skip.

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It will slide along the ground.

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It's really easy to see out of bunkers but it will basically slide like I hit just behind

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the ball and the club just slid along the ground.

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If the leading edge hits the ground, what will happen is it hits it and then it is kind

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of push straight down so it goes like this.

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It doesn't really change that drastically but so you can visualize it.

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It catches it and it digs down.

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So what will happen is if I hit a little bit behind the ball with the leading edge

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exposed, it takes away a lot of the energy and slows down the club.

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So I'll try to hit about the same amount behind the club again but this time with bounce

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and you'll see that the club just slides.

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A lot of these short game shots where we want to hit slightly behind the ground or

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I talk about using the bounce, we have to make sure that we either got the handle vertical

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or the club face open.

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Something to expose bounce so that the club doesn't dig.

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I hope that that helps you understand this bounce concept because we're going to be using

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it a lot in our pitch shots, our finesse wedges as well as most importantly your bunkers

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shots.