Nick O’Hern and Mark Allen are back live on Tuesday January 16 with the first Talk Birdie To Me podcast for 2024. Until then we’re replaying some of the Top 5’s and Masterclasses that you particularly engaged with throughout the last 12 months or so.
This one from Nick O’Hern inspired by Corey Conners, on acceleration out of the bunker.
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Well we hope you’re having a great summer break and uh getting out on the course and maybe hitting a hole in one or two that’ be good or at the very least working on your handicap we just want to say thanks for making talk birdie to me the leading Australian golf
Podcast we appreciate you spending some time with us each week and we appreciate the great support from ping you can see your local golf pro for a ping Club fitting and the golf clearance outlet great deal is going on right now on whatever you need niik Hearn and Mark
Allen are back live on Tuesday January 16 but over the last year or so we got some great feedback on the master classes all the videos are on YouTube on our talk birdie to me channel go and check him out but we thought we’d pull out some of the most popular ones and
Have another listen I was talking about Cory Connor earlier and his bunker shot and how he decelerated on his bunker shot on the last hole he did get away with it though he had to tough two down the slope and uh at the national John lyus he had a
Wonderful bunker shot on the last had the ho hold it to try and force a play off with with Tom power horn but the whole idea about the bunkers in this master class is acceleration you were talking earlier Mark about acceleration that Brad Hughes loves to talk about in
The golf but in bunkers it’s so important obviously you need to set up correctly a little wider stance hands point at the belt buckle don’t get the hands pointing forward or get any sha length because we want to expose the bounce knees bend a little bit bit more
But then on the back swing and the follow through want a little bit more his wrist hinge Gary Player he likes to talk about Set uh lighting the match I don’t if you’ve ever heard that T through the ball he’s lighting the match he’s really accelerating through the
Ball and then following through I think most golfers out there that do play in your local courses tend to decelerate because they’re worried about hitting the ball too far don’t worry the club open the face up expose the bounce nice acceleration through the ball follow through and I guarantee you’re going to
Hit much better bunker shots and the ball will get out and hopefully not go over the other side of the green you might even get a little bit of with some acceleration indeed which is the a a dream oh yeah yeah they dream about it
I’m going to post a video a little later on about how to do all that as well Beautiful niiko Hearn and Mark Allen they’re back on Tuesday January 16th for another big year of talk birie s we’ll see you [Applause] then
