By:
Jessica Marksbury
,
Jeff Smith, High 100 Trainer
December 10, 2022
Hitting a excessive, delicate bunker shot is simpler than you suppose.
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There are just a few photographs on the market that, when executed correctly, make you’re feeling like an actual participant. The excessive, delicate shot from the sand is one.
Turning into a proficient bunker participant pays big dividends in your sport. When you grasp the sand, bunkers go from being potential scorecard disasters to scoring alternatives — and an opportunity to point out of your spectacular expertise to your taking part in companions.
My relationship with bunkers has been a risky one. I’ve gone by means of lengthy intervals the place simply getting out has been tough, not to mention getting it near the outlet. That’s why, once I had the chance to speak to High 100 Trainer Jeff Smith at GOLF’s current High 100 Trainer Summit at Speaking Stick in Scottsdale, Ariz., bunker ideas have been among the many first matters on my thoughts.
hit a excessive, delicate bunker shot
“The very first thing we’d like is knowing that we have now to have a mini explosion of sand proper beneath the golf ball,” Smith started. “So the simplest option to get that’s to maneuver the ball extra ahead — about beneath your entrance hip joint — and also you want the membership to maneuver in a steep style up and down in order that the underside of the arc of your regular, pure golf swing can be proper beneath that golf ball.”
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That’s the most important key proper there, in keeping with Smith. For those who can place your membership accurately at impression, the membership’s loft will do the remaining.
“All of the sudden, all that mass of the membership is useless beneath the middle mass of the ball and launches it straight up into the air,” Smith stated. “You’ve already received loads of loft when you’re utilizing a sand wedge or a lob wedge, so that you don’t have to open it up that a lot. You’ll be able to if the sand is somewhat delicate. But when it’s somewhat agency you don’t have to.”
Smith says you’ll be able to even use a pitching wedge with this system.
“It’ll nonetheless come out delicate and excessive,” he stated. “However it would nonetheless have some roll too.”
I can’t wait to present it a strive in my subsequent spherical. For extra ideas from Smith, click on right here.
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As a four-year member of Columbia’s inaugural class of feminine varsity golfers, Jessica can out-birdie everybody on the masthead. She will out-hustle them within the workplace, too, the place she’s primarily accountable for producing each print and on-line options, and overseeing main particular tasks, similar to GOLF’s inaugural Fashion Issue, which debuted in February 2018. Her original interview collection, “A Spherical With,” debuted in November of 2015, and appeared in each within the journal and in video type on GOLF.com.