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Golf Fix: Hard bunker shots made easy (2:13)
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Michael Breed, host of 'The Golf Fix', teaches the proper way to play from the bunker when the sand is hard and packed. Watch 'The Golf Fix' Mondays 7 and 10PM ET.
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-I'm Michael Breed host of the Golf Fix. Keep those
e-mails coming to us, come on. Let's go. This is
a Facebook question from Nick in Smyrna, Delaware. It's getting
colder here in the northeast and the bunkers are becoming
very hard packed. Do you have any tips on hitting
out of concrete bunker without bouncing the club into the
ball? You betcha, Nick. Yeah I mean, I know what--
look I wore the sweater for you, it's cold, I'm
hearing you. This is what's going on, so what we
gotta do into a bunker, typically, what I'm telling you
to do is take your sand wedge, open it up,
make a full swing, go through it fully and make
a-- it's a big fast motion. This swing what I
want you to do is I want you to make
a couple of different changes. The first one is I
want you to square up the face. We want that
club to dig a little bit. The second thing is
I want you to grab your most lofted wedge. So
if it's a lob wedge, I want you to use
that we wanna take some loft golf. This club isn't
gonna get that far under the ball. One of the
things that's essential to being successful here is having a
lighter grip pressure. What we wanna do is wanna have
the same full swing but we want the club to
be going slower and the way to get it to
go slower is to just hold it really lightly. So
what we're gonna do is we're gonna get set up
just normally, same thing but I'm gonna take the face.
I'm just gonna open it just a little bit. I
don't want it open like that, I want it open
just a little bit. So we're gonna open it up
just a little bit and then we're gonna have a
really light grip pressure and what that light grip pressure
is gonna do is that, it's gonna allow you to
make a full swing but just slow the speed of
the club. We don't need to lift this-- a lot
of sand coming out of this. This doesn't need to
move very fast but it does need to move full.
And as you do that, what's gonna happen is, is
that that leading edge is gonna dig down into that
sand just a little bit and it'll get that ball
up and you'll have no problems at all, Nick. I
promise you. That bunker game, intact. Now, the other thing
you can do? Stay right here on the GolfChannel.com/TheGolfFix all
the best instruction to help you with your game and
then finally, and you know it, Monday nights. The Golf
Fix 7:00, 10:00 PM Eastern, you wanna be there to
help your game.
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