Speaker 1: It's the Son of a Book podcast. You guys know
Speaker 1: the drill come to you every Wednesday. This week. This week,
Speaker 1: I wanted to follow up on something that I touched
Speaker 1: on in the pod last week, this concept of this
Speaker 1: domino effect that I talked about when I give golf lessons,
Speaker 1: when I'm looking at golf swings and I'm looking at
Speaker 1: how players swing the golf club, I'm looking at a
Speaker 1: lot of different things, right, There's a lot of different
Speaker 1: body parts. And I think one of the things that
Speaker 1: confuses a lot of people that play golf is there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things going on in a very very
Speaker 1: short period of time. You know, you're making a dynamic
Speaker 1: movement pattern, but the movement pattern that you're making is
Speaker 1: really only taking about second and a half to two seconds.
Speaker 1: So even though there's a lot of things going on,
Speaker 1: there tends to be a one main cause. My dad
Speaker 1: used to always tell me, find the cancer in the
Speaker 1: golf swing. Find the answer that is killing this person's
Speaker 1: golf swing. And I thought about that, and I thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: how can I kind of take that concept and kind
Speaker 1: of make it my own? And I thought, okay, Well,
Speaker 1: when I look at golf swings, and I look at
Speaker 1: what players do. There's this series of events, this chain reaction,
Speaker 1: and when you hit a bad shot, and I'll be
Speaker 1: in golf lessons and all last players what they're working on,
Speaker 1: and then they'll tell me what they're working on, and
Speaker 1: then they'll hit a really really bad shot. So all
Speaker 1: the stuff that they said that they were working on,
Speaker 1: they do the exact opposite, and they they'll look at
Speaker 1: me and they'll say, I'm not trying to do any
Speaker 1: of that. But as I said on last week's pod,
Speaker 1: there tends to be one main thing that starts to
Speaker 1: cause all these other things, and there's a domino effect.
Speaker 1: So if we can kind of reverse the domino, so
Speaker 1: I thought, all right, maybe start doing some of these
Speaker 1: pods and call it, you know, the Domino Series to
Speaker 1: where we're going to look at real world situations that
Speaker 1: I encounter and kind of talk about these things and
Speaker 1: how the dominoes affect what's going on. So I was
Speaker 1: working with one of the players I work with and
Speaker 1: their bunker game has not been great this year, stats
Speaker 1: below fifty percent, and that to me, that's really low
Speaker 1: hanging fruit, right, That's where you can really make a
Speaker 1: lot of gains by taking something like short game. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of short game for players is concept everyone. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think there are some technique issues, but I think
Speaker 1: a lot of what happens is there's concept issues, and
Speaker 1: the concept issues bleed into the technique issues. So in
Speaker 1: looking at this player, we're watching them hit bunker shots.
Speaker 1: And one of the characteristics of players that I see
Speaker 1: struggle with bunker is the golf ball was fairly neutral
Speaker 1: in the stance borderline almost back. I think you can
Speaker 1: maybe get away with it being neutral, but if it
Speaker 1: starts to creep back, and that's where I see a
Speaker 1: lot of players get into some problems. And so the
Speaker 1: ball position was pretty neutral, and to me, the big
Speaker 1: domino in this scenario was the setup. The ball position's
Speaker 1: kind of in the middle, the hands are a little
Speaker 1: bit ahead, so very similar to if you were going
Speaker 1: to be set up to try and hit kind of
Speaker 1: a long bump and run chip shot. And that is
Speaker 1: a setup that I see over and over again with
Speaker 1: players when they do struggle out of the bunker. Is
Speaker 1: they get in there, that ball position gets really really
Speaker 1: neutral to almost back, The weight gets forward, the stance
Speaker 1: gets open, the face gets wide open, and then they
Speaker 1: lean the shaft forward. And that is just a recipe
Speaker 1: for a disaster. Why is that a recipe for a disaster?
Speaker 1: So the domino effect there is if you think about
Speaker 1: what you're doing in the bunker, imagine that in the
Speaker 1: golf ball. So the golf ball when it's in the
Speaker 1: bunker is resting on the sand. So my dad and
Speaker 1: my run you used to always say that the bunker
Speaker 1: shot should be the easiest shot in golf because it's
Speaker 1: the only shot in golf. Well, we're not going to
Speaker 1: ask you to hit the ball. We're going to ask
Speaker 1: you to hit the sand. And it's you hitting the
Speaker 1: sand that the golf ball is resting on that is
Speaker 1: going to pop the golf ball up and get it
Speaker 1: out of the bunker. So this idea of the domino
Speaker 1: effect and what causes it, well, if you think about it,
Speaker 1: think about the way that your wedge is designed. So
Speaker 1: most people in the bunker are going to use probably
Speaker 1: their fifty eight or their sixty, and on the bottom
Speaker 1: of the wedge there's going to be what they call bounce.
Speaker 1: Your bounce can be anywhere between four six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen,
Speaker 1: whatever that number is right, and then you have the
Speaker 1: leading edge of your your wedge, and then you have
Speaker 1: the club face. So if you hold the club face, okay,
Speaker 1: hold the club face up, hold your sand wedge up,
Speaker 1: hold it in your right hand, and go ahead and
Speaker 1: have the face pointing to you. And if someone said, okay,
Speaker 1: show me more of the club face and more of
Speaker 1: the leading edge, you would lean the handle forward and
Speaker 1: you would see more of the leading edge. If somebody said, okay,
Speaker 1: show me more of the bounce, you would lean the
Speaker 1: shaft back and expose more of the bounce. So when
Speaker 1: the golf club in the bunker, and I think this
Speaker 1: is really really important. When you're in a bunker, the
Speaker 1: single biggest effect that the sand is going to have
Speaker 1: on the golf club as it it's the golf club
Speaker 1: hits the sand, is it's going to slow the golf
Speaker 1: club down because the sand has so many particles you're
Speaker 1: coming in. So there's two issues. When you're trying to
Speaker 1: hit a bunker shot. You need to have a lot
Speaker 1: of speed because you're not hitting the golf ball right,
Speaker 1: you're hitting the sand. So you need to have speed
Speaker 1: to pop that golf ball up. You've got to imagine
Speaker 1: that the golf ball is resting on a bed of sand,
Speaker 1: like a dollar bill or a square. And one of
Speaker 1: the things that I do with players is We'll get
Speaker 1: them in the bunker and then I'll go down and
Speaker 1: I'll just go ahead and draw a square around the
Speaker 1: ball and say, Okay, the golf ball is resting on
Speaker 1: that square of sand, and you have to get the
Speaker 1: sand out of this bunker. So if the ball position
Speaker 1: gets neutral and the handle gets forward, as the golf
Speaker 1: club comes into impact, that handle is going to be
Speaker 1: very much ahead of the golf ball. That leading edge
Speaker 1: is going to be exposed more. We're going to expose
Speaker 1: more club face. We're not going to be exposing the bounce,
Speaker 1: and the golf club is going to dig, and as
Speaker 1: it digs into the sand, it's also going to be
Speaker 1: slowed down by the sand. So I think it gets
Speaker 1: very very hard to get the sand out of the bunker.
Speaker 1: And if you're getting the sand out of the bunker,
Speaker 1: you're going to be getting the golf ball out of
Speaker 1: the bunker. So ball position neutral, shaft forward, club comes
Speaker 1: in steep, it digs, doesn't bounce, there's no splash, and
Speaker 1: it makes it hard. So one of the ways that
Speaker 1: you can change that sequence of events is to move
Speaker 1: that golf ball more forward in your stance, so almost
Speaker 1: like imagine if you were hitting a driver, you would
Speaker 1: want to move that golf ball more forward and make
Speaker 1: sure that the shaft that the shaft of the club,
Speaker 1: the grip of the golf club isn't pointing in front
Speaker 1: of the golf ball. If anything, you would almost want
Speaker 1: to imagine that that it was almost resting behind it.
Speaker 1: But a good rule of thumb is the back end
Speaker 1: of your grip right the top of your grip in
Speaker 1: the bunker. If you could have the back end of
Speaker 1: your grip pointing to where the zipper on your pants
Speaker 1: or shorts are, or where your belt is, that's going
Speaker 1: to get that shaft a little bit more neutral and
Speaker 1: have a little bit more of the bounce being exposed
Speaker 1: at a dress. Then as you come into impact, trying
Speaker 1: to have the feeling that there isn't a lot of
Speaker 1: shaftlee when the ball is on the ground and we're
Speaker 1: hitting chip shots, or when the ball is on the
Speaker 1: ground and we're hitting full swings. Shaft lien is really
Speaker 1: really important because we want that good constant contact, we
Speaker 1: want that good angle of attack all of those things.
Speaker 1: And one of the characteristics of really good ball strikers
Speaker 1: is to have a lot of forward shaft lien. That
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily work in a bunker because the handle gets
Speaker 1: too forward, the club starts to dig, and it just
Speaker 1: makes it hard for you to get the ball out.
Speaker 1: So I think one of the easiest ways to kind
Speaker 1: of shift these dominoes is to move the golf ball one, two, three,
Speaker 1: maybe four balls more forward of center. When you set up,
Speaker 1: make sure that that shaft is not leaning too far forward.
Speaker 1: If anything, you've want to feel like it's leaning back
Speaker 1: just a little bit. And then in the full swing
Speaker 1: in your swing, you've got to make sure that you're
Speaker 1: making a swing that is long enough to get the
Speaker 1: sand out of the bunker. So if you remember, when
Speaker 1: you are in a bunker, you are not hitting the
Speaker 1: golf ball. You're hitting the golf ball if you're hitting
Speaker 1: a bad shot. But when you are in the bunker
Speaker 1: and you're hitting your bunker shot, you are not hitting
Speaker 1: the golf ball. You're hitting the sand. So you need
Speaker 1: a swing that has enough force to get the sand
Speaker 1: out of the bunker. So one of the drills that
Speaker 1: I do with players is I just go ahead and
Speaker 1: get him in a bunker. I go ahead and draw
Speaker 1: a little circle in the sand or a little square
Speaker 1: in the sand. I don't even use a ball, and
Speaker 1: I say, okay, make me a swing that can get
Speaker 1: the sand out of the bunker. Because if the sand
Speaker 1: doesn't get out of the bunker, then the golf ball
Speaker 1: is probably not going to get out of the bunker.
Speaker 1: So you need to make a swing that has enough
Speaker 1: force to get the ball out of the bunker. Now,
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why I think a lot of
Speaker 1: players don't do this is because because of the setup.
Speaker 1: Because that handle can get forward, because the ball can
Speaker 1: be a little bit further back, you're going to be
Speaker 1: coming in and instead of having loft on your lob wedge,
Speaker 1: your fifty eight, you're sixty, whatever club you're using, when
Speaker 1: that handle starts to get forward, you're delofting the club.
Speaker 1: And a lot of players hit the golf ball way
Speaker 1: too far. They hit the golf ball, they hit that
Speaker 1: the kind of low screamer, They hit that over the green.
Speaker 1: They hit that low screamer that goes straight into the
Speaker 1: top lip. So as a result of that, I think
Speaker 1: they get scared to make a swing. So the domino
Speaker 1: effect of when you don't make enough force in your
Speaker 1: golf swing, when you don't have enough length in your
Speaker 1: back swing and enough length in your follow through and
Speaker 1: enough speed in your golf swing, is the domino effect
Speaker 1: of that is the golf ball struggles to get out
Speaker 1: of the bunker because the golf club is being slowed
Speaker 1: down by the sand. So if we want to do
Speaker 1: this at a dress you would want to feel like
Speaker 1: you're moving the golf ball a little bit more forward.
Speaker 1: Move that golf ball more, maybe more towards the logo
Speaker 1: on your shirt, if you've got a logo, more like
Speaker 1: a driver swing. I think most players could benefit from
Speaker 1: being a little bit more on the open. There are
Speaker 1: some players at play bunker shots from very very square positions,
Speaker 1: but I think most people to get that body out
Speaker 1: of the way and to start to get some rotation,
Speaker 1: I think having the stance just a little bit on
Speaker 1: the open side. How much you open the face, I
Speaker 1: think if I would be critical of what I see
Speaker 1: in the majority of my golf life, since I think
Speaker 1: if you're going to open the face, you need to
Speaker 1: make sure that you've got that golf ball forward in
Speaker 1: your stance, and you're going to have to have that
Speaker 1: stance a little bit on the open side to offset that.
Speaker 1: And again I see a lot of players set up
Speaker 1: very very neutral. I see a lot of players with
Speaker 1: that handle forward, and then I see them with the
Speaker 1: face wide open. So now the face is pointing, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes ten twenty thirty yards right of where their intended
Speaker 1: target line is. Then the handle gets super far forward.
Speaker 1: Then the angle of attack gets super super steep. They're
Speaker 1: de lofting the golf club. The face is wide open,
Speaker 1: and those are the ones where you'll see players sometimes
Speaker 1: just pull straight across it. So in working with this
Speaker 1: player and working on it, the majority of the changes
Speaker 1: we made were set up related. I kept saying, get
Speaker 1: the ball more forward, get the ball more forward, get
Speaker 1: the ball more forward. I was using a lot of
Speaker 1: video and the player said, to listen, I feel like
Speaker 1: that ball's outside my left toe. And I took some
Speaker 1: video of the setup, and they couldn't believe that the
Speaker 1: golf ball was still almost kind of borderline back. So
Speaker 1: once we got the golf ball very much forward, we
Speaker 1: were able to then feel like that shaft wasn't leaning
Speaker 1: so far forward, So we were able in a setup to
Speaker 1: get the golf club in a really good position to
Speaker 1: be able to do its job, to get the lob
Speaker 1: wedge in a position with the bounce to be able
Speaker 1: to do the job that we need it to do.
Speaker 1: And then one of the other generalizations that I see
Speaker 1: a lot in bunker play, and yes, generalizations they work,
Speaker 1: but sometimes I think players can do this too much,
Speaker 1: this idea that we're going to take the golf club
Speaker 1: very much out to in and cut across the golf ball.
Speaker 1: And that's what this player that I was working on
Speaker 1: was doing. The golf ball was very very neutral in
Speaker 1: the stance, The hands were a little bit forward, the
Speaker 1: face was wide open. The golf club wasn't going back steep.
Speaker 1: And that's another thing that you need to think about
Speaker 1: in your bunker game. Imagine that instead of the golf
Speaker 1: ball resting on sand, imagine if you were in a
Speaker 1: pool and there is a beach ball resting on the water, right,
Speaker 1: how do you make the beach ball go up in
Speaker 1: the air. Well, if you try and do it the
Speaker 1: conventional way and swing your arm up, your arc is
Speaker 1: going to bottom out and your arm is going to
Speaker 1: hit the water. First, the water is going to slow
Speaker 1: it down. So the easiest way to make a beach
Speaker 1: ball go straight up in the air is to push
Speaker 1: downward on the sand. As you push or on the water.
Speaker 1: As you push downward on the water, the force and
Speaker 1: the pressure of that pops the beach ball up. So
Speaker 1: we need to do a little bit of the same
Speaker 1: thing in the bunker. We need the club to work up,
Speaker 1: and we need the club to work down. And I
Speaker 1: think a lot of times when I see players take
Speaker 1: the golf club very much on the outside, the golf
Speaker 1: club is going back outside. It's going back in a
Speaker 1: very very shallow position. So I always think in terms
Speaker 1: of if I can try and shift the dominoes, maybe
Speaker 1: I work the opposite. So this player ball neutral, hands forward,
Speaker 1: face wide open. We moved the golf ball more forward.
Speaker 1: We got the hands to feel like they were almost
Speaker 1: back a little and then as opposed to the golf
Speaker 1: club going outside and cutting across it, I wanted this
Speaker 1: player to feel like they were taking the golf club
Speaker 1: steep and almost a feeling of inside. And as a
Speaker 1: result of that, I've kind of neutraled out what their
Speaker 1: path was doing. They were no longer taking that club
Speaker 1: excessively on the outside. They were taking it inside, but
Speaker 1: the feeling of Okay, I'm gonna take the golf club
Speaker 1: a little bit more on the inside, and then the
Speaker 1: path got a little bit too neutral. What I see
Speaker 1: a lot of times when players start to struggle, if
Speaker 1: you look at you, sometimes I think it's really good
Speaker 1: to where wherever your golf ball is right in front
Speaker 1: of your golf ball in the sand, go ahead with
Speaker 1: your with your wedge and draw an arrow. So point
Speaker 1: the arrow to where your target is right, so that's
Speaker 1: your intended target line. And this is a good way
Speaker 1: to see if you are excessively swinging across your target line,
Speaker 1: if you're swinging across your body. When that tends to happen,
Speaker 1: the divots tend to get really really steep. The divots
Speaker 1: tend to get really really deep. And anytime we get
Speaker 1: super super deep divots in in a bunker, in a
Speaker 1: green side bunker, that's going to slow the golf club
Speaker 1: down because the golf club's coming in too steep. So
Speaker 1: in working with this player, the domino effect was ball
Speaker 1: position change, set up change, and then from a technique standpoint,
Speaker 1: a little bit more feeling like the golf club was
Speaker 1: going almost a little bit more on the in, a
Speaker 1: little bit steeper, and then a much longer golf swing
Speaker 1: with more force and more power. And that's where we
Speaker 1: were able to make some big gains starting to get
Speaker 1: that sound up instead of the golf club digging, that
Speaker 1: sound of the golf club thumping the sand. And if
Speaker 1: you start to do this properly, you should look at
Speaker 1: your divots and in the bunker, and one of the
Speaker 1: things that should happen is the divots should be a
Speaker 1: lot shallower. They shouldn't be as deep. We shouldn't see
Speaker 1: such a deep divot that we're going to see a
Speaker 1: lot of wet sand. And if you do this properly
Speaker 1: and you're utilizing the bounce and the club's coming in
Speaker 1: in the right way, you should start to see your
Speaker 1: divots more shallow. But you should also see them kind
Speaker 1: of have an oval football type shape, a rugby ball
Speaker 1: type shape to what the divot is. And that's always
Speaker 1: a good example of the club coming in, the bounce
Speaker 1: being utilized and that kind of oval shape divit is
Speaker 1: the sand being pushed out and then the club is
Speaker 1: you're utilizing more of that. Anytime the divot gets a
Speaker 1: little bit more shallow in the bunker, and we're hitting
Speaker 1: a really really good kind of bunker shot that has
Speaker 1: some spin on it. That's showing us that we're utilizing
Speaker 1: the bounce, that we're using the bounce of the wedge.
Speaker 1: Anytime the divot starts to get dig diggy, deep steep,
Speaker 1: we see a lot of that wet, wet sand because
Speaker 1: the club is digging very very deeply. That's going to
Speaker 1: show us that we're using too much leading edge, that
Speaker 1: that handle is getting forward. Another really good way to
Speaker 1: get this sensation and this feeling is to make some
Speaker 1: practice swings in a bunker one handed with your if
Speaker 1: you're a right handed golfer, with your right arm only,
Speaker 1: and that's going to give you the feeling of how
Speaker 1: the club head should work. So if you make some
Speaker 1: practice swings and do it with just your right arm only,
Speaker 1: what you're trying to do with that is you're trying
Speaker 1: to feel a lot of the clubhead. You want to
Speaker 1: try and feel that club head working back and through impact,
Speaker 1: and I think you can start to also with one
Speaker 1: handed shots, feel the bount My grandfather was famously on
Speaker 1: the cover of Golf digest. I think it's in the
Speaker 1: mid seventies and the title of the article was get
Speaker 1: out of the Bunker with one arm, and my dad
Speaker 1: did a little bit of the same thing. He kind
Speaker 1: of did a reboot of that in the nineties. But
Speaker 1: I think it's a great way to try and teach
Speaker 1: yourself how to get out of a bunker. Is if
Speaker 1: you're a right handed golfer, use that trail arm your
Speaker 1: right arm, your dominant arm, and that's going to give
Speaker 1: you the feeling of being able to use the golf
Speaker 1: club properly. If you have too much forward shaft lean
Speaker 1: with your with just your right arm or one arm only,
Speaker 1: I think you're going to feel it a lot more
Speaker 1: than if you have too So you can choke down
Speaker 1: kind of to the maybe choke down just to the
Speaker 1: end of the grip right so that right arm is
Speaker 1: choked down to the end of the grip, and that's
Speaker 1: going to give you some of your grip. The shaft
Speaker 1: that the grip is a hatch to. That's going to
Speaker 1: give that grip some exposure to you. And what you
Speaker 1: want to try and do is feel as you're coming
Speaker 1: into impact instead of the grip leaning towards the target.
Speaker 1: You would want it to feel like as you're coming
Speaker 1: in with that just that one arm, only that right
Speaker 1: arm only, you would want to feel like that grip
Speaker 1: would be pointing back, that that would be backing up,
Speaker 1: because that's what we want to try and do in
Speaker 1: the bunker is we don't want that shaft to be
Speaker 1: leaning too far forward. But again, going back to this
Speaker 1: idea of the domino effect, is if that setup gets off,
Speaker 1: the hands are going to get forward just on their own.
Speaker 1: Because at that ball position gets neutral and you've got
Speaker 1: it in the middle of your stance or a little
Speaker 1: bit back, and then you try and open the face
Speaker 1: and then you try and get the handle back. That
Speaker 1: setup is just got disaster written all over it because
Speaker 1: now the club face is going to be pointing miles
Speaker 1: to the right, and it's going to be very hard
Speaker 1: for you to get that club back into that really
Speaker 1: good position. I do think that short game is probably
Speaker 1: one of the easiest ways that we can see and
Speaker 1: shift these dominoes in a very very short period of time.
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of the dominoes that you
Speaker 1: can start to shift in short game start with setup.
Speaker 1: The way you're set up to hit a golf ball.
Speaker 1: So when I'm talking about ball position, right, So if
Speaker 1: you think about your ball position, there are three ball positions.
Speaker 1: There's one that would be kind of your neutral or
Speaker 1: middle of your stance ball position. If you wanted to
Speaker 1: hit the golf ball lower, you would move the golf
Speaker 1: ball back in your stance. And if you wanted to
Speaker 1: hit the golf ball higher, you would move the golf
Speaker 1: ball more forward in your stands. So the domino effect
Speaker 1: of what happens in golf swings is sometimes happens just
Speaker 1: in the setup and then based off of the setup.
Speaker 1: So in short game and in what we're talking about today,
Speaker 1: in the bunker, if the golf ball gets back in
Speaker 1: your stance, that is the recipe to try and hit
Speaker 1: something low that is more of a bump and run
Speaker 1: back of your stance with an eight or a nine iron,
Speaker 1: the ball is not going to get into the air there.
Speaker 1: The golf ball is going to get very low to
Speaker 1: the ground and run. So when you're in a bunker,
Speaker 1: the first thing that you want to do from a
Speaker 1: setup standpoint to help change these dominoes is move that
Speaker 1: golf ball more forward. The other thing is your arc
Speaker 1: when you do that, is going to bottom out way
Speaker 1: more towards the front of your stance. Because one of
Speaker 1: the things that happens in the bunker that I see
Speaker 1: on a regular basis is because you're trying to get
Speaker 1: the golf ball up and you're trying to get the
Speaker 1: golf ball out of the bunker. In an effort to
Speaker 1: do that, I've seen players at times shift their weight
Speaker 1: back to that trail leg. So if you're right handed
Speaker 1: an effort to get the ball out of the bunker,
Speaker 1: you're shifting and you're trying to help that golf ball
Speaker 1: in the air, then that arc is going to bottom
Speaker 1: out way too early. And then again that handle is
Speaker 1: going to go forward, that shaft is going to dig,
Speaker 1: and it's not going to be a super solid method
Speaker 1: to get that ball out. So short game in a bunker,
Speaker 1: this domino effect idea. Always start with your setup. Ask yourself,
Speaker 1: if you're in a bunker and you're trying to hit
Speaker 1: the golf ball high, the last thing you want to
Speaker 1: do is have the golf ball be back in your stance.
Speaker 1: If you're in the bunker and you're trying to hit
Speaker 1: the golf ball high out of the bunker, the last
Speaker 1: thing you would want would be to have your handle forward,
Speaker 1: to have a lot of forward shaft liing. And then again,
Speaker 1: if you're trying to hit the golf ball high and
Speaker 1: soft out of a bunker, the last thing you would
Speaker 1: want to do at impact would be to have a
Speaker 1: lot of forward shaft liing, because that's not going to
Speaker 1: have the golf ball come out. You're not going to
Speaker 1: be able to utilize the ounce, and then the golf
Speaker 1: ball is just going to struggle to get out of
Speaker 1: the bunker. And then because of that, it's going to
Speaker 1: be very hard for you to have a golf swing
Speaker 1: that is long enough, that has enough speed, that has
Speaker 1: enough force through impact to get the golf ball out
Speaker 1: of the bunker. So I think some of those things
Speaker 1: set up ball position. The way you're setting up with
Speaker 1: the shaft, that's to me some low hanging fruit that
Speaker 1: if you're struggling out of a bunker, go ahead and
Speaker 1: take a look at that, but start to think about
Speaker 1: the effect of what you're doing at setup. Ask yourself
Speaker 1: in your setup, specifically in short game and in a bunker,
Speaker 1: what the setup is designed to do from a ball flight.
Speaker 1: And I think if you can start to think about
Speaker 1: that on a consistent basis. It's going to make it easier.
Speaker 1: And then the last thing I'll say, you have to
Speaker 1: make a swing that has enough force to get the
Speaker 1: golf ball out of the bunker. So don't be afraid
Speaker 1: to make that swing. Do it without a golf ball,
Speaker 1: because obviously when the golf ball's there, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of anxiety for players. Just go ahead, and you can
Speaker 1: just go ahead and draw a line, a straight line,
Speaker 1: and then just go ahead and hit five swings and say, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm going to try and hit the line, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to try and take the sand that is in
Speaker 1: this bunker and get it onto the green. If the
Speaker 1: sand doesn't get onto the green, the ball isn't going
Speaker 1: to get onto the green. Because this is the only
Speaker 1: shot in golf where we're going to ask you to
Speaker 1: not hit the ball. We're asking you to hit the
Speaker 1: sand underneath the ball. You need to throw the sand
Speaker 1: out of the bunker. So I think I'm gonna think
Speaker 1: I'll do some more of these to where we talk
Speaker 1: about just real life situations and what those domino effects are.
Speaker 1: And I think it's a really good way for everyone
Speaker 1: to try and start to think about how all of
Speaker 1: this stuff, all of this stuff is interconnected in your
Speaker 1: golf swing. I want to thank everybody for listening some
Speaker 1: of it which comes to you every Wednesday. See you
Speaker 1: next week.