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[Music] To get the golf ball to go up, I need to present the shaft as vertically as possible. If I present the shaft forward leaning, guess what I do to the loft? I significantly deloft the face. So, I want to present the shaft with with as much vertical or even lay back as I possibly can to create a nice amount of height on these green side bunker shots. So, one of the ways I teach people how to do this is we start in here with a golf club and we just simply learn how to throw our right wrist at it. So, there’s a little arm swing here and there’s some right wrist throw. Now, this is never how I hit a normal golf shot. Here, I’ll do it to the camera. You can see that I’m really taking my right wrist, bending it back upon itself, and then flipping it to where I can catch raindrops here. So, again, we’re going to hinge and throw. Hinge and throw. Now, you’ll notice this golf club doesn’t really want to dig a lot, does it? It’s slapping the sand. If I present this golf club like I would a normal shot with forward shaftling, all of a sudden I dig deeply into the sand. That’s one of the big death moves. I know Jim Mlan likes to call it death moves. Well, this is a death move in the sand. You don’t want to present the leading edge before you present the trailing edge. You want to use the bounce. So, I’ll have students step in here and go ahead and throw this club and just loft golf balls out of the bunker. right hand only. If you can do it right hand only, you start to realize, hey, this isn’t so hard. Now, if we put both hands on, we have a little bit more momentum and we can throw this club, trying to present as much loft to the golf ball as we can. Now, remember, per the rules, we’re not allowed to ground the club in the bunker. So, I’m gonna throw this club past my hands. And there’s a nice spinny bunker shot about 10 ft too far, but it was a shallow sandy divot, not a big steep one. You know, the big boo boo I see when I watch bunker players is that they enter the sand way back behind the golf ball, good 8 10 in behind, and they come out at the golf ball. So, what happens is they’re moving so much sand, there’s no there’s no velocity on the golf ball. You know, to be a good bunker player play player, we want nice shallow little divots of sand. And there’s a specific sound when a good bunker player hits a shot. It’s kind of like a slap. Well, that slap is that big old flange here, that rounded sole of of the wedge hitting that sand. We want that slap. And we can’t do it if we take the leading edge and dig it in like we might if we’re hitting a pitch shot from 40 yards. So, we’ve got to present a vertical shaft. So, this is what I want you to do. Grab your sand wedge and let’s go ahead and let that thing move past our right hand just like this. Okay, this is sort of a flop shot feel as well. We’re trying to land in the sand 2 in behind the ball, give or take, and we’re trying to exit the sand four or five inches on the target side of the golf ball. Let’s go ahead and show you a face on view here. I play the ball pretty forward. I play the shaft level or even laying back away from the target. You know, my standard golf shots, the shaft’s pretty level or even just ahead, just a teeny bit ahead of the ball. So, here’s the bunker shot. Weights pretty much on my left foot, just a little bit on my right to keep my balance. My head’s nice and peaceful and centered. I’m staring oh, about an inch or two behind the ball. In fact, I’m looking about an inch and a half behind the ball. And again, I feel like I’m going to go like this. Like my right forearm is going to hit a wall and my right hand is going to scoop because that’s a shallowing effect. For those of you that don’t take divots with your seven iron, 6 iron, 5 iron, you probably have a little bit of this scoopiness and not enough of this steepness, this bent right wrist getting striking the ball first when you’re on the turf. You don’t want that in the bunker, okay? You want this shallowing move right here. So again, weights left. We’re going to let this club head throw past the hands. I’m staring at the sand. Open the face a little bit. My feet are aiming a little bit left. That was a good one. I’ll show you that in slow-mo. And it’s, you know, I feel like the club head’s passing my hands a bunch, but in reality, it’s not. I’m just presenting a very vertical shot versus one with forward lean. So, you know, how do you hit these bunker shots high? You know, you go over to England or somewhere or you’re you’re at at your club and there’s some super tall lip. Well, you know, you’re not going to hit them high by having the face closed. We want a lot of loft on the face. So, it’s okay to turn that face to the right. If you turn that face to the right, you’re opening the face. To offset that, let’s aim our body to the left. So now the face is still pointing at the target. Our weight’s left. And again, we are shallowing. We’re throwing this club past our hands. That’s going to keep the loft maximized. The shaft is going to be presented vertical, which will help the loft. And we just have to have some trust that we’re going to get really good at hitting our low point that we’re looking at. And there’s the best one yet.
