The shot you hate essentially the most is what you want when blasting from a bunker.
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Need to get higher from greenside bunkers? Give your self a problem.
Seize an 8-iron and go to work. With the restricted loft of this membership (in comparison with a sand wedge), you’ll have to do issues that create further loft, whatever the membership you’re utilizing. This was a lesson I noticed demonstrated to perfection by Gary Participant — for my part, probably the greatest sand gamers of all time — in a lesson he gave to three-time main winner Vijay Singh.
The key: Open the clubface and maintain it open all over impression — such as you’re hitting a slice on goal. With my college students, I ask them to rotate their forearms to the purpose the place, on the prime, the clubface factors extra towards the sky than the bottom. The trick, then, is to maintain the clubface open all over impression. No launch vital.
The true level is that once you get good at hitting greenside bunker pictures with an 8-iron, think about how simple will probably be with a sand wedge in your arms.
Don Sargent Jr. is a GOLF Prime 100 Trainer and is the director of instruction at Scioto CC in Columbus, Ohio.
