WEBVTT - Bunker Survival Guide: The Domino Effect 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:08.440 It's the Son of a Book podcast. You guys know 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:12.479 the drill come to you every Wednesday. This week. This week, 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:15.400 I wanted to follow up on something that I touched 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:19.360 on in the pod last week, this concept of this 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.240 domino effect that I talked about when I give golf lessons, 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:24.880 when I'm looking at golf swings and I'm looking at 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:29.000 how players swing the golf club, I'm looking at a 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:31.240 lot of different things, right, There's a lot of different 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:32.920 body parts. And I think one of the things that 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:36.120 confuses a lot of people that play golf is there's 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:38.240 a lot of things going on in a very very 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.000 short period of time. You know, you're making a dynamic 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.239 movement pattern, but the movement pattern that you're making is 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:48.000 really only taking about second and a half to two seconds. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:52.040 So even though there's a lot of things going on, 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.480 there tends to be a one main cause. My dad 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:58.520 used to always tell me, find the cancer in the 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:02.600 golf swing. Find the answer that is killing this person's 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:04.440 golf swing. And I thought about that, and I thought, Okay, 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:08.560 how can I kind of take that concept and kind 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.399 of make it my own? And I thought, okay, Well, 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:11.880 when I look at golf swings, and I look at 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:16.080 what players do. There's this series of events, this chain reaction, 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:20.280 and when you hit a bad shot, and I'll be 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:22.759 in golf lessons and all last players what they're working on, 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.600 and then they'll tell me what they're working on, and 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:27.960 then they'll hit a really really bad shot. So all 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:29.920 the stuff that they said that they were working on, 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.080 they do the exact opposite, and they they'll look at 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:34.920 me and they'll say, I'm not trying to do any 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.280 of that. But as I said on last week's pod, 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.320 there tends to be one main thing that starts to 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.240 cause all these other things, and there's a domino effect. 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.680 So if we can kind of reverse the domino, so 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.280 I thought, all right, maybe start doing some of these 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:52.720 pods and call it, you know, the Domino Series to 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.920 where we're going to look at real world situations that 0:01:56.000 --> 0:02:00.240 I encounter and kind of talk about these things and 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.320 how the dominoes affect what's going on. So I was 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:06.160 working with one of the players I work with and 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.920 their bunker game has not been great this year, stats 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.280 below fifty percent, and that to me, that's really low 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:14.320 hanging fruit, right, That's where you can really make a 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.520 lot of gains by taking something like short game. I 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:22.520 think a lot of short game for players is concept everyone. Yes, 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.040 I think there are some technique issues, but I think 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.240 a lot of what happens is there's concept issues, and 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:32.560 the concept issues bleed into the technique issues. So in 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:36.360 looking at this player, we're watching them hit bunker shots. 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.760 And one of the characteristics of players that I see 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:44.440 struggle with bunker is the golf ball was fairly neutral 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:49.320 in the stance borderline almost back. I think you can 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.840 maybe get away with it being neutral, but if it 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.720 starts to creep back, and that's where I see a 0:02:56.760 --> 0:03:00.160 lot of players get into some problems. And so the 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.600 ball position was pretty neutral, and to me, the big 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:08.200 domino in this scenario was the setup. The ball position's 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.760 kind of in the middle, the hands are a little 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.639 bit ahead, so very similar to if you were going 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.120 to be set up to try and hit kind of 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.560 a long bump and run chip shot. And that is 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.320 a setup that I see over and over again with 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:25.720 players when they do struggle out of the bunker. Is 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:27.960 they get in there, that ball position gets really really 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:32.440 neutral to almost back, The weight gets forward, the stance 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:36.640 gets open, the face gets wide open, and then they 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:41.559 lean the shaft forward. And that is just a recipe 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:45.320 for a disaster. Why is that a recipe for a disaster? 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:48.320 So the domino effect there is if you think about 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:52.240 what you're doing in the bunker, imagine that in the 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.200 golf ball. So the golf ball when it's in the 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:59.760 bunker is resting on the sand. So my dad and 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.200 my run you used to always say that the bunker 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.520 shot should be the easiest shot in golf because it's 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:06.120 the only shot in golf. Well, we're not going to 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.160 ask you to hit the ball. We're going to ask 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:10.920 you to hit the sand. And it's you hitting the 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:13.080 sand that the golf ball is resting on that is 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.240 going to pop the golf ball up and get it 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.760 out of the bunker. So this idea of the domino 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.880 effect and what causes it, well, if you think about it, 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.520 think about the way that your wedge is designed. So 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.240 most people in the bunker are going to use probably 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.719 their fifty eight or their sixty, and on the bottom 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:33.880 of the wedge there's going to be what they call bounce. 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.960 Your bounce can be anywhere between four six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:41.400 whatever that number is right, and then you have the 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:45.040 leading edge of your your wedge, and then you have 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:49.880 the club face. So if you hold the club face, okay, 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.599 hold the club face up, hold your sand wedge up, 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:57.400 hold it in your right hand, and go ahead and 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.760 have the face pointing to you. And if someone said, okay, 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.360 show me more of the club face and more of 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.920 the leading edge, you would lean the handle forward and 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.640 you would see more of the leading edge. If somebody said, okay, 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.240 show me more of the bounce, you would lean the 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:22.880 shaft back and expose more of the bounce. So when 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:24.880 the golf club in the bunker, and I think this 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:31.000 is really really important. When you're in a bunker, the 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:36.080 single biggest effect that the sand is going to have 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:40.080 on the golf club as it it's the golf club 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:42.800 hits the sand, is it's going to slow the golf 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:46.839 club down because the sand has so many particles you're 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:51.800 coming in. So there's two issues. When you're trying to 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:55.120 hit a bunker shot. You need to have a lot 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.800 of speed because you're not hitting the golf ball right, 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:02.600 you're hitting the sand. So you need to have speed 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.760 to pop that golf ball up. You've got to imagine 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.760 that the golf ball is resting on a bed of sand, 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:12.000 like a dollar bill or a square. And one of 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:13.720 the things that I do with players is We'll get 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:15.520 them in the bunker and then I'll go down and 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.960 I'll just go ahead and draw a square around the 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.960 ball and say, Okay, the golf ball is resting on 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.040 that square of sand, and you have to get the 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:29.599 sand out of this bunker. So if the ball position 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.799 gets neutral and the handle gets forward, as the golf 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.920 club comes into impact, that handle is going to be 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:41.040 very much ahead of the golf ball. That leading edge 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:44.440 is going to be exposed more. We're going to expose 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.480 more club face. We're not going to be exposing the bounce, 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.320 and the golf club is going to dig, and as 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.760 it digs into the sand, it's also going to be 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.200 slowed down by the sand. So I think it gets 0:06:56.320 --> 0:07:00.360 very very hard to get the sand out of the bunker. 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.119 And if you're getting the sand out of the bunker, 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:03.760 you're going to be getting the golf ball out of 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:10.480 the bunker. So ball position neutral, shaft forward, club comes 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:15.400 in steep, it digs, doesn't bounce, there's no splash, and 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.120 it makes it hard. So one of the ways that 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:21.400 you can change that sequence of events is to move 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:25.480 that golf ball more forward in your stance, so almost 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:30.360 like imagine if you were hitting a driver, you would 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:34.200 want to move that golf ball more forward and make 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:38.720 sure that the shaft that the shaft of the club, 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.640 the grip of the golf club isn't pointing in front 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:44.920 of the golf ball. If anything, you would almost want 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.040 to imagine that that it was almost resting behind it. 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:52.840 But a good rule of thumb is the back end 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:56.120 of your grip right the top of your grip in 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.960 the bunker. If you could have the back end of 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.160 your grip pointing to where the zipper on your pants 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.960 or shorts are, or where your belt is, that's going 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:08.320 to get that shaft a little bit more neutral and 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.560 have a little bit more of the bounce being exposed 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:15.920 at a dress. Then as you come into impact, trying 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:18.560 to have the feeling that there isn't a lot of 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:22.160 shaftlee when the ball is on the ground and we're 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.320 hitting chip shots, or when the ball is on the 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.280 ground and we're hitting full swings. Shaft lien is really 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.880 really important because we want that good constant contact, we 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.920 want that good angle of attack all of those things. 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.319 And one of the characteristics of really good ball strikers 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.920 is to have a lot of forward shaft lien. That 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.920 doesn't necessarily work in a bunker because the handle gets 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:49.880 too forward, the club starts to dig, and it just 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:51.800 makes it hard for you to get the ball out. 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:53.920 So I think one of the easiest ways to kind 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:58.560 of shift these dominoes is to move the golf ball one, two, three, 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:02.880 maybe four balls more forward of center. When you set up, 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.400 make sure that that shaft is not leaning too far forward. 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.120 If anything, you've want to feel like it's leaning back 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.880 just a little bit. And then in the full swing 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.720 in your swing, you've got to make sure that you're 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:19.240 making a swing that is long enough to get the 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:23.400 sand out of the bunker. So if you remember, when 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.400 you are in a bunker, you are not hitting the 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.440 golf ball. You're hitting the golf ball if you're hitting 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.720 a bad shot. But when you are in the bunker 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.800 and you're hitting your bunker shot, you are not hitting 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.920 the golf ball. You're hitting the sand. So you need 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:42.240 a swing that has enough force to get the sand 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:44.680 out of the bunker. So one of the drills that 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.000 I do with players is I just go ahead and 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.280 get him in a bunker. I go ahead and draw 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:53.000 a little circle in the sand or a little square 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.040 in the sand. I don't even use a ball, and 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.920 I say, okay, make me a swing that can get 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:01.560 the sand out of the bunker. Because if the sand 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.520 doesn't get out of the bunker, then the golf ball 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.040 is probably not going to get out of the bunker. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.000 So you need to make a swing that has enough 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.040 force to get the ball out of the bunker. Now, 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.000 one of the reasons why I think a lot of 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.760 players don't do this is because because of the setup. 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.440 Because that handle can get forward, because the ball can 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.960 be a little bit further back, you're going to be 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.560 coming in and instead of having loft on your lob wedge, 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:32.560 your fifty eight, you're sixty, whatever club you're using, when 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.679 that handle starts to get forward, you're delofting the club. 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:37.960 And a lot of players hit the golf ball way 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:39.600 too far. They hit the golf ball, they hit that 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:43.360 the kind of low screamer, They hit that over the green. 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.760 They hit that low screamer that goes straight into the 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:49.240 top lip. So as a result of that, I think 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.520 they get scared to make a swing. So the domino 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.240 effect of when you don't make enough force in your 0:10:56.280 --> 0:11:00.360 golf swing, when you don't have enough length in your 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.080 back swing and enough length in your follow through and 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.440 enough speed in your golf swing, is the domino effect 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.559 of that is the golf ball struggles to get out 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.280 of the bunker because the golf club is being slowed 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.480 down by the sand. So if we want to do 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.120 this at a dress you would want to feel like 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.600 you're moving the golf ball a little bit more forward. 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.120 Move that golf ball more, maybe more towards the logo 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:29.560 on your shirt, if you've got a logo, more like 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:34.679 a driver swing. I think most players could benefit from 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:36.840 being a little bit more on the open. There are 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.679 some players at play bunker shots from very very square positions, 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.920 but I think most people to get that body out 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:46.920 of the way and to start to get some rotation, 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.480 I think having the stance just a little bit on 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.360 the open side. How much you open the face, I 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:58.120 think if I would be critical of what I see 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:01.480 in the majority of my golf life, since I think 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.040 if you're going to open the face, you need to 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:07.200 make sure that you've got that golf ball forward in 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:10.160 your stance, and you're going to have to have that 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.480 stance a little bit on the open side to offset that. 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.200 And again I see a lot of players set up 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.839 very very neutral. I see a lot of players with 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.480 that handle forward, and then I see them with the 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:25.360 face wide open. So now the face is pointing, you know, 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:31.760 sometimes ten twenty thirty yards right of where their intended 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:35.400 target line is. Then the handle gets super far forward. 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:39.920 Then the angle of attack gets super super steep. They're 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.560 de lofting the golf club. The face is wide open, 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:45.080 and those are the ones where you'll see players sometimes 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.920 just pull straight across it. So in working with this 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.840 player and working on it, the majority of the changes 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.480 we made were set up related. I kept saying, get 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.880 the ball more forward, get the ball more forward, get 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:58.520 the ball more forward. I was using a lot of 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:00.840 video and the player said, to listen, I feel like 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.200 that ball's outside my left toe. And I took some 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.520 video of the setup, and they couldn't believe that the 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:11.080 golf ball was still almost kind of borderline back. So 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.920 once we got the golf ball very much forward, we 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.600 were able to then feel like that shaft wasn't leaning 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.880 so far forward, So we were able in a setup to 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:23.360 get the golf club in a really good position to 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.000 be able to do its job, to get the lob 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:28.960 wedge in a position with the bounce to be able 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:30.839 to do the job that we need it to do. 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:36.120 And then one of the other generalizations that I see 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:41.439 a lot in bunker play, and yes, generalizations they work, 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:44.640 but sometimes I think players can do this too much, 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.679 this idea that we're going to take the golf club 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.400 very much out to in and cut across the golf ball. 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:52.880 And that's what this player that I was working on 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.440 was doing. The golf ball was very very neutral in 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.120 the stance, The hands were a little bit forward, the 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:02.160 face was wide open. The golf club wasn't going back steep. 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:04.800 And that's another thing that you need to think about 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:08.280 in your bunker game. Imagine that instead of the golf 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:11.280 ball resting on sand, imagine if you were in a 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:16.160 pool and there is a beach ball resting on the water, right, 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.280 how do you make the beach ball go up in 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.520 the air. Well, if you try and do it the 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:24.280 conventional way and swing your arm up, your arc is 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:26.800 going to bottom out and your arm is going to 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.600 hit the water. First, the water is going to slow 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:31.760 it down. So the easiest way to make a beach 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.000 ball go straight up in the air is to push 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:37.480 downward on the sand. As you push or on the water. 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.520 As you push downward on the water, the force and 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.840 the pressure of that pops the beach ball up. So 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:45.120 we need to do a little bit of the same 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:51.560 thing in the bunker. We need the club to work up, 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:55.600 and we need the club to work down. And I 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.600 think a lot of times when I see players take 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.000 the golf club very much on the outside, the golf 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.800 club is going back outside. It's going back in a 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:07.560 very very shallow position. So I always think in terms 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.680 of if I can try and shift the dominoes, maybe 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:14.880 I work the opposite. So this player ball neutral, hands forward, 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:18.560 face wide open. We moved the golf ball more forward. 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.120 We got the hands to feel like they were almost 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.800 back a little and then as opposed to the golf 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:28.400 club going outside and cutting across it, I wanted this 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:30.600 player to feel like they were taking the golf club 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.720 steep and almost a feeling of inside. And as a 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.200 result of that, I've kind of neutraled out what their 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:41.720 path was doing. They were no longer taking that club 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:45.240 excessively on the outside. They were taking it inside, but 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.640 the feeling of Okay, I'm gonna take the golf club 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.200 a little bit more on the inside, and then the 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.760 path got a little bit too neutral. What I see 0:15:52.800 --> 0:15:54.760 a lot of times when players start to struggle, if 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:57.760 you look at you, sometimes I think it's really good 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:00.320 to where wherever your golf ball is right in front 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.400 of your golf ball in the sand, go ahead with 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:06.840 your with your wedge and draw an arrow. So point 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:10.000 the arrow to where your target is right, so that's 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.720 your intended target line. And this is a good way 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:18.640 to see if you are excessively swinging across your target line, 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.240 if you're swinging across your body. When that tends to happen, 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.800 the divots tend to get really really steep. The divots 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:29.560 tend to get really really deep. And anytime we get 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.600 super super deep divots in in a bunker, in a 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.280 green side bunker, that's going to slow the golf club 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.840 down because the golf club's coming in too steep. So 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:43.520 in working with this player, the domino effect was ball 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:47.600 position change, set up change, and then from a technique standpoint, 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.680 a little bit more feeling like the golf club was 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.880 going almost a little bit more on the in, a 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:57.240 little bit steeper, and then a much longer golf swing 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:01.800 with more force and more power. And that's where we 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.320 were able to make some big gains starting to get 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:09.399 that sound up instead of the golf club digging, that 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:13.000 sound of the golf club thumping the sand. And if 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.639 you start to do this properly, you should look at 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.480 your divots and in the bunker, and one of the 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:20.720 things that should happen is the divots should be a 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:25.119 lot shallower. They shouldn't be as deep. We shouldn't see 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:27.240 such a deep divot that we're going to see a 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.680 lot of wet sand. And if you do this properly 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.320 and you're utilizing the bounce and the club's coming in 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.720 in the right way, you should start to see your 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:39.000 divots more shallow. But you should also see them kind 0:17:39.000 --> 0:17:43.400 of have an oval football type shape, a rugby ball 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.760 type shape to what the divot is. And that's always 0:17:46.800 --> 0:17:50.119 a good example of the club coming in, the bounce 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.679 being utilized and that kind of oval shape divit is 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:57.560 the sand being pushed out and then the club is 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:01.600 you're utilizing more of that. Anytime the divot gets a 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.160 little bit more shallow in the bunker, and we're hitting 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:08.200 a really really good kind of bunker shot that has 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:11.639 some spin on it. That's showing us that we're utilizing 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.200 the bounce, that we're using the bounce of the wedge. 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:19.080 Anytime the divot starts to get dig diggy, deep steep, 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.359 we see a lot of that wet, wet sand because 0:18:22.359 --> 0:18:25.800 the club is digging very very deeply. That's going to 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.160 show us that we're using too much leading edge, that 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:32.320 that handle is getting forward. Another really good way to 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:35.680 get this sensation and this feeling is to make some 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:39.679 practice swings in a bunker one handed with your if 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.000 you're a right handed golfer, with your right arm only, 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.480 and that's going to give you the feeling of how 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:48.080 the club head should work. So if you make some 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:51.600 practice swings and do it with just your right arm only, 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:53.680 what you're trying to do with that is you're trying 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:57.280 to feel a lot of the clubhead. You want to 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:01.080 try and feel that club head working back and through impact, 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:03.440 and I think you can start to also with one 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:08.960 handed shots, feel the bount My grandfather was famously on 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:11.960 the cover of Golf digest. I think it's in the 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.360 mid seventies and the title of the article was get 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.680 out of the Bunker with one arm, and my dad 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:20.960 did a little bit of the same thing. He kind 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.520 of did a reboot of that in the nineties. But 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:25.720 I think it's a great way to try and teach 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.679 yourself how to get out of a bunker. Is if 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.760 you're a right handed golfer, use that trail arm your 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:33.640 right arm, your dominant arm, and that's going to give 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.240 you the feeling of being able to use the golf 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:39.960 club properly. If you have too much forward shaft lean 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:42.800 with your with just your right arm or one arm only, 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.040 I think you're going to feel it a lot more 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:48.040 than if you have too So you can choke down 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:50.560 kind of to the maybe choke down just to the 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:52.919 end of the grip right so that right arm is 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:55.120 choked down to the end of the grip, and that's 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:59.160 going to give you some of your grip. The shaft 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.719 that the grip is a hatch to. That's going to 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.800 give that grip some exposure to you. And what you 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:07.480 want to try and do is feel as you're coming 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:12.360 into impact instead of the grip leaning towards the target. 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:14.520 You would want it to feel like as you're coming 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:16.920 in with that just that one arm, only that right 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:18.840 arm only, you would want to feel like that grip 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:22.080 would be pointing back, that that would be backing up, 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:24.159 because that's what we want to try and do in 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:27.720 the bunker is we don't want that shaft to be 0:20:27.840 --> 0:20:30.520 leaning too far forward. But again, going back to this 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:33.560 idea of the domino effect, is if that setup gets off, 0:20:34.080 --> 0:20:36.840 the hands are going to get forward just on their own. 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:40.360 Because at that ball position gets neutral and you've got 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:41.960 it in the middle of your stance or a little 0:20:41.960 --> 0:20:44.320 bit back, and then you try and open the face 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:47.399 and then you try and get the handle back. That 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.359 setup is just got disaster written all over it because 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:52.680 now the club face is going to be pointing miles 0:20:52.720 --> 0:20:55.040 to the right, and it's going to be very hard 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:57.120 for you to get that club back into that really 0:20:57.160 --> 0:21:05.960 good position. I do think that short game is probably 0:21:06.080 --> 0:21:10.440 one of the easiest ways that we can see and 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:14.480 shift these dominoes in a very very short period of time. 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:16.600 And I think a lot of the dominoes that you 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:20.240 can start to shift in short game start with setup. 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:22.800 The way you're set up to hit a golf ball. 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:27.200 So when I'm talking about ball position, right, So if 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:31.520 you think about your ball position, there are three ball positions. 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:34.359 There's one that would be kind of your neutral or 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:37.080 middle of your stance ball position. If you wanted to 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:39.280 hit the golf ball lower, you would move the golf 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:41.560 ball back in your stance. And if you wanted to 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:44.120 hit the golf ball higher, you would move the golf 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:47.400 ball more forward in your stands. So the domino effect 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:52.119