The World’s BEST Players TRANSFORM YOUR BUNKER SWING IN 23 MIN (best bunker lessons on YouTube)

The World’s BEST Players TRANSFORM YOUR BUNKER SWING IN 23 MIN (best bunker lessons on YouTube)

In this video, the best bunker players from around the world reveal the greatest bunker lessons of all time and collectively, this is the best bunker lesson on YouTube. So grab a pen/paper & some popcorn…

The time stamps:

0:00 Intro
0:09 Tiger Woods & Scottie Scheffler | 15-Time & 2-Time Major Champions
0:52 Johnny Miller | World Golf Hall Of Fame Member
1:58 Gary Player | 9-Time Major Champion
3:39 Greg Norman | 2-Time Major Champion (91 Pro Wins)
5:04 Nick Faldo | 6-Time Major Champion
6:49 Tom Watson | 8-Time Major Champion
7:34 Luke Donald | 2011 PGA Tour Player of The Year
8:22 Paul Azinger | 1-Time Major Champion
9:52 Hale Irwin | 3-Time U.S. Open Champion
10:43 Billy Casper | 3-Time Major Champion (51 Pro Wins)
11:16 Phil Mickelson | 6-Time Major Champion
12:26 Corey Paven | 1-Time Major Champion (15 Pro Wins)
13:42 Colin Montgomerie | 50 Pro Wins
15:22 Tom Watson | 8-Time Major Champion
16:38 Tiger Woods & Jason Day | 15-Time & 1-Time Major Champions
18:45 Seve Ballesteros | 5-Time Major Champion

Be sure and let us know in the comments which bunker lesson helped your bunker game the most. Subscribe for part 2
-GS

practicing the release in a draw motion gets me into where I can feel like the club is being let go I had bad bunker shots when I drag my hands the second pin I’d be here now if I had to hit one to the front pin i’ drop my hands a little lower I really do like dropping my right leg back to feel the hook to feel the hook in it to be able be able to get my release there my path is like that to that to the the second one wild well don’t forget I dropped my right leg back oh okay so now you now it feels almost normal right now that path looks looks about right now yeah see that’s how oh yeah you said you feel in the heel too yeah okay that makes sense so if I’m feeling the heel that’s actually an easy way to get that underneath W correct exactly I think the most important thing you can do in the bunker in my mind is consistently hit about that far behind it everything else is secondary if you hit that far behind it it’s going to come out onto the green if you hit that far behind it it’s going right there right and if you don’t hit the sand it’s going across the green on the other side so you can say all you want about a bunker shot but the most important thing is to be able to hit about that far behind the ball and the reason why people have trouble doing that is they don’t Center themselves and what I try to do is put my nose right on that spot which is right there right here now when you hit that spot it won’t show up up there because the flange is that wide it’ll show up back here but in reality you’re trying to hit uh about this far behind the ball and you put your nose right on that spot if I put my head like that I’ll probably hit back here if I put my head on the ball you’ll hear that click and it’ll go right over the green so it’s the most important thing you can do in the bunker if you ask me is Center your head and everything about your body right on that spot because that’s that’s your goal is to hit that spot not the ball the ball has nothing to do with it when I gave lessons I made it very simple I drew a matchbox and I put a ball in the middle of the matchbox like that and I said to my student look when you used to light a match in the old days on a matchbox you’d have to if you went through slowly like that it wouldn’t light so I drew the matchbox here and they had to get that to light it so we call it strike the match that’s the first thing secondly you got to stand wider in a bunker shot because you don’t want to have a lot of leg action and if you stand wide it curtails the amount of leg action you use and then the most important thing is to set that club as quickly as you can you can never set it quickly enough three things stand wide set the club light the match let’s see you hit one right away let’s get right now we want to hit the high one though so now what we’re going to talk about is the high shot and reading the Sands and the different kinds of shots that we faced up to because as we’ve said there is more way more to read in a bunker than there is on a green right here we want this High soft shot so the first thing I do strengthen my grip why well let me look at you Martin and say this if I grip the club there watch the club face and I’ll weaken my grip I deloft it if I strengthen my grip look at the Loft you add Loft so by strengthening the grip you add Loft secondly do not ever get your hands in front because you deloft the club you get your hand slightly behind so my hands are behind I’ve strengthened the grip and now I make sure that I just light the match watch this one baby I’m a big believer in in making sure you get your stance a little bit wider making sure you get down on the golf ball a little bit more and you notice how my club face is laid Way open here to do that my my shaft Angle now is going to come back towards the middle of my stance a little bit so I’m going to have a little bit of a vshape or U shape from the club head to my left shoulder where in a normal dress position it’s almost a straight line so I get myself very much it um rooted into the sand now I’m very very stable my hands are low grip pressure is light my hands are back behind the ball now what I’m going to do is I just take a real nice shallow low swing I’m not cocking my wrist too early I’m taking a shallow swing cuz I want that club head to slice in underneath like this I don’t want to chop it in to dig it out I’m trying to let that club head slide in and my key thought to everybody out there as you watch this from that camera angle my key thought is the the huzzle of the golf club or the neck of the golf club that is my leader all the way through I’m pulling that part of the golf club through the sand and not letting it get buried into the sand and let anything get ahead of it so this part of the golf club right here is going to be pulled through with the rotation of my body that’s nice we have a rake not necessarily for rake in the bunker but give you a straight line so put him down right and I really recommend for a while maybe 5 10 minutes you don’t hit a golf ball but you put your left heel onto this line somewhere there you stand open you draw a line to help you if you wish and then the next thing is you open the club face as much as you like and I want you to point your grip still at your belly button so you don’t open it like this so many people are like they’ve heard get your hands forward or behind is actually better than forward so but for now point the butt of the club so open it up put it on the ground then grip it okay now we want to try and find the sand there’s two faults here so what we’re trying to do is time it so the bounce of the club lands exactly in your little Groove there I give you a very simple tip if you’re All Hands guess what you hit it there if you’re one of those that looks up you’re going to hit it too late so work it out so if you’re somebody who’s all hands trying to help it you got to find a way to get more chest so you get the club entering the sand there if you’re obviously this person who’s very much that well then you got to stay down I’ll let you actually just try and throw it a little bit more with your hands to try and find the spot so after you’ve done that for maybe a little bit of time you know get comfortable with that if you can do a couple of lines successfully then I’ll let you have a golf ball so you go down the line again finding the the sand and when we come to the golf ball without thinking about it we whack it like so yeah one of my all-time favorite sand lessons came from Claud Haron who taught you how to get out of the bunker with only one hand what he was trying to achieve there was to hit the the sand with the back of the sand wedge like this with an open face and make sure that the the handle of the club the grip of the club never either LED or came from behind like this that’s a death for a sandshot is either have the handle too far ahead or too far behind by doing it with one hand the club always came back to where the handle was pointing at the middle of your body doing it with an open face produce results like this a couple simple drills that’ll help you get the ball out of the bunker nice and high coming down nice and soft one of the drills that I do sometimes is I’ll actually put sand on the club face and when I set up to it the idea is to keep this face open enough that I throw the sand behind me and that’s the path you want in a bunker shot you want it nice and wide with the toe opening up as soon as you get steep with the SHA leaning forward you’re going to use that front edge too much and create thick diots you want nice shallow wide around you uh nice shallow divots and that should get the ball nice and up so let me try one with the sand on throw it behind me the ball will come out nice and soft most people are just way too close to it to start and their Club face isn’t open enough we talked about that already and the importance of getting farther away from it is is really huge even on a longer bunker shot you still want to be a little bit far farther away from it um you know logically you don’t I won’t open the club face quite as much and I won’t have my hands quite as far back U my goal is always to slip the club past the ball but I think that uh when I say normal normal normal uh normal weight distribution normal swing off my normal homec course sand the only variance there is that I get a normal ball flight or a normal distance from those three normals now that I have to hit it farther than normal I can actually make the same amount of swing with more weight right brandall and hit the ball farther this particular flag is even a little farther than just the weight shift change would make when my weight goes to the right I enter shallower and the ball will go farther here I’ll probably swing a little harder than normal with a little more weight right and that’s how I do it it’s it’s pretty much normal swing it maybe a hair harder than normal but I like to move my weight around you know just like if I want to hit a short one I move my weight left if I want to hit a short one and now I swing a little harder than normal and I can hit it shorter and create more spin so you know I get in here I’ll lean left I’m probably 60 40 70 30 left and and I can get it to go up with more spin if you’ve got a bunker shot that’s a little longer than you’re comfortable playing with a sand wedge or your gap wedge consider the 9 iron if you hit it just the same as you would your other wedges you’re going to get a ball that travels a little farther how many times have you been in a bunker hitting a nine iron perhaps from 100 110 yards you hit it fat and it went 25 or 30 yards well that’s what we’re trying to do here so all I’m doing is trying to create that Miss shot but it’s a plan shot so would do it just the same The Stance is the same I lay the club face open I aim for the same point in the sand and I take the same swing and you get a ball that comes out a little flatter it gets a little more run out but it’s that less risk involved now we are faced with one of the most difficult trap shots that a buried lie or commonly known as a fried egg I still employ a slightly open stance but instead of leaving the blade open like this I close it up the object now is to hit about 2 to 3 in in back of the ball keeping the left hand moving like so this shot you cannot stop so you have to just sort of lift it out of the Trap and let it hit the green and let it roll this ball is plugged on an uphill eye now what I’m going to do here is I cannot finish High because the club will not get fully underneath the ball all I can do is drive it just behind the ball and have the club stick into the ground so I have to keep leading with my hands I cannot let the club pass again but what I want to do is I want to stick it into the ground as such so the arm and the club stay in a straight line and I’m just driving it right behind the ball I’m opening the face my weight is forward because we’re trying to keep the club underneath the ball we’re the ball will get out we just have to drive the club underneath what we don’t want to do is blade it have our weight back where where the Leading Edge comes up we have to keep the Leading Edge down so my weight is forward I’m leaning into the hill I drive it in and if you notice the ball popped up but look my arm and Club are still in a straight line my hands continued but it just stuck into the ground it stayed ahead of the club I didn’t stop my hands and let the club pass when you have this uphill lie and you tilt this way your weight defin goes a little bit more on your right side so it’s okay to have it on your right but just don’t let it shift to your left as you go through because if you start shifting you’re going to get level again and when you get level you’re going to dig into the sand and it’s not going to bounce off of it so you have to really stay still and go ahead and let the club slide underneath the ball that’s an awfully good one one other thing that you’re doing that uh shouldn’t be lost on the viewer is you are not stopping at the ball you see so many times when you’ve got an uphill eye right after impact it’s almost like the club head has stopped you are driving hard straight through to complete your your golf swing yeah you know with this method it’s it’s very important to keep swinging all the way through uh because if you stop the ball’s going to just it may not even get out of the bunker so uh on an uphill lie if you stop your swing you’re going to have shots like that happen so go ahead and hit it you’ll be amazed doing this how hard you can hit the shot and still have it Go a short distance has a full swing right there might come back a little bit off the hill that was a full swing and only went about 20 yard this is the uh the uphill Li so my feet are below the ball right so what generally happens is the amateur golfer digs in too much because of course his feet are below the ball he wants to dig in too much so what I’m doing here is it’s the same technique apart from the fact that I’m going to not give it 5 in behind the ball but only about three so this takes a bit of practice don’t get me wrong so what we’re doing here is we’re going slightly nearer the ball to hit through that way and that’s a much better shot than actually trying to dig down because because I am below the ball you have a shallower swing and you’re hitting down too much and of course that’s that that’s what causes that problem this is the horrible one we hate to see from a distance a ball that we’ve hit into a bunker and it’s rolled up the face and it’s stuck here on the down slope we hate this the one thing we must not do here is try and get this ball Airborne if I if I have this club is 60° if I open the club up I have about 80° on this club well well in advance of the lip so what we mustn’t do is what amateur is try and do is get here and try and lift the ball up we follow the slope we hit down and we hit down and through allowing uh uh the loft of the club and the bounce of the club to take effect so open the club face wait on the left side and we hit down just like the downhill shot we have to align our body with the slope we have to align body and make sure that we get our weight on the inside of our left foot and keep it there we have to get our shoulders aligned with the down slope like this we can’t lean back into the slope with gravity and be perpendicular to gravity we have to lean down the slope like this now for a downhill shot like this we have to have the face open we have to make sure that we take the club on a very vertical path we don’t want to hit the sand on the back swing because that’s a two penalty we want to make sure that the club clears that lip going back goes vertical and then down very sharply with an open face just behind the ball you have to catch it behind the ball and then you swing on through like this keeping the face open now let’s try this shot lean down the slope weight on the left foot wide stance shoulders with the slope take the club up keep the face open going through like this you have to hit it actually pretty hard well I think I don’t think any ameter should ever go below 12 12 degrees of Bounce yeah um just because it’ll it’ll dig you’re not practicing all the time bounce is your friend yeah and especially in bunkers bounces is in the most important part about it if you don’t have any bounce then it’s going to be digging I’m constantly telling them open the face open the face open the face and that’s what you got to do you have to open the face to get the bounce to be able to get it up out of the sand they seem to come in and just come in with a square face when you come in with a square face it wants to dig so you got to open that face get the bounce and to to propel it out of the bunker see my big theory behind bunker shots is that if I can consistently hit it behind the ball where I need to and take as minimal sand as possible I can just land it near somewhere near the pin and it’ll stop really quick and that’s on all shots so then because the big thing about sand is when you’re hitting bunk shots and you don’t have consistent strike sometimes it comes out crisp and Spins and sometimes it comes out running right wherever it is doesn’t matter if it’s a short shot or a long shot I’ll try and hit it exactly the same behind the ball um or all the time that’s something that’s something every great bunker player says is just so consistent that way you correct that’s awesome what’s interesting about your your motion is how high you finish well you know what the big thing for me is I want to be as aggressive and as positive as I can Through The Hitting Zone yeah you know what I mean I try and finish really high cuz I’m trying to hit that big high cut got it got it it’s interesting cuz I I try to hit it higher yeah I just let it go a little bit faster with my right hand yeah you see how short your yes I mean I and for me I can’t get a high bunker follow through yeah I can’t do it why is that because when I think High I think hands yes yes yes yes that’s your feel yes my feel yeah the reason because we must have the uh Cloud face open is because you will get a better release throughout the sand all right then the reason because we do this in the bunet is because we are looking for a solid stance because in the bunet is very important to stay still then the toll it must aim to the left because that will give you a better chance to go throughout the shot also everything is aing to the left or Square because in the bunker you don’t need to turn like in you doing the normal shots but you have to release everything to the left right then the weight on the left side is important because also that will make you stay still over the ball and also it will give you a better chance to take the clap a little bit more straight up or pright okay the hands must be in front because that will help you on the takeaway to open the club face with which is fundamental in the bunker let’s play the shot but now first of let me explain to you a couple more things you have to think about how much you have to hit behind the ball it will be about an inch or an inch and a half then you have to control the Distance by the speed of the club phase now we have the feet the the knees the hips and the shoulders everything all square but aing to the left that will make you swing across the line with the cloud face open is what we need then on the takeaway we have to make sure that the club face is open on the top that way this is square this is closed make sure it’s open the tall of the of the grip it has to end between the ball and the feet and then then on the down swing the toall of the grip it has to come to the central of the body and square with the ball with the open Cloud face right there Then through you have to release a little bit but the right hand it has to be open that way don’t close the right hand because what happen is that if you do that you will rotate the clap that means you will close the cloud face and you will get over spin so make sure that throughout the swing the secret is to keep open the cloud face all the time and you can do that only with the right hand under and then you release a little bit but under always under and looking at the hole all right let’s play the sh and see what happened sometimes you may find it better to use the P from the bunker for example if the liap of the bunker is low if the lip is high or grassy the ball will never get out also the patter is a good choice if the pen is on the very front part of the green because using the sand wch we will not be able to stop the ball when you’re using the patter in the bunker you have to remember the sun is a little bit slower than the grass so make sure you hit it a little harder but on other occasions when the pain is farther away you may want to cheer with the wedge or even with the N9 iron to run the ball down to the flag the technique is similar to chipping from the Fairway and the result can really be good very simple