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Four Musts in Bunkers

Good Bunker Technique Boils Down to Four Keys:

Get Good Footing:
Grip Down an Inch on the Club:
Open Your Stance:
Don't Keep your Eye on the Ball

1. Get Good Footing: By grinding your feet firmly into the sand you'll get a solid, secure base for optimum balance. Maintaining a stable base and balance is a key for becoming a better bunker player. The less lower body movement the better, this allows you to become more consistent with your clubs entry point into the sand.

2. Grip Down an Inch on the Club: Do this to compensate for the fact that you've ground your feet into the bunker, thus bringing your hands closer to the ball. If you don't shorten your grip, you'll tend to dig the club too deeply and hit too far behind the ball, taking too much sand.

3. Open Your Stance: Set up with your feet, knees, hips and shoulders pointing well left of your target. This will facilitate the steeply upward takeaway and downward impact that are vital for 99% of green side bunker shots. You also want to open the face of your club to make use of the club's "bounce". When you open the clubface (for a right handed golfer) the club will be pointing right of your target. Opening your stance also helps compensate for this.

4. Don't Keep Your Eye on the Ball: Instead, focus on a point about an inch or so behind the ball. That is where you want to make impact. A consistent impact point is vital to hitting good bunker shots. To practice getting a consistent entry point into the sand, draw a line the length of a practice bunker and without using any balls, move down the line taking swings as you go and see how often you can get your club to enter the sand exactly on the line. If you have trouble hitting the line then you will certainly have trouble hitting good bunker shots.

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