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In this Golf University "Tip from the Pro" I'm with Lawrie Montague
The former Australian woman's coach
and now the co coach of the Indonesian golf team
we're at the joondalup Golf Resort in beautiful Perth Australia
and Lawrie's going to teach us how to head out of wet packs sand in a bunker
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For a lot of people playing bunker shots one of the scariest bunker shots you can play
is a shot out of wet packs sand
Wet packs and you've got a lot of water that's impacted an area
and it's made it a lot firmer than normal
I've simulated that here for you poured a lot of water into this place and has
actually got quite firm the shot I'm confronted with
is you can see a pin in the distance
but beyond that pin is a drop down to a bunker that's about 15
feet below the surface of the green
and behind that bunker is a big limestone
quarry about 80 feet deep so I don't want to go in there so I've got to make
sure that I hit this shot solidly so let me take you through some of the principles
that are going to help you to get it out of wet packs and more often
Most important thing to understand is when you play the shot you've got to get
down into the firm sand now to do that what we're going to do is we're going to make sure
that instead of playing the ball forward now stance
We're going to play it back towards the middle of the stance that's number one
Number two this is important we're going to lower the handle down a little bit
Now what that's going to look like to you
It's going to look like the toe of the golf club is in the air slightly
the next thing we're going to do is just open the clubface slightly
Now by lowering the golf club down we add loft
By just opening the club face slightly what we're going to do is create a stroke
where so you can see my hands are lower club is open we're going to be able to go up
down and cut into that wet sand a little bit because what happens is a lot of people
that are playing sand shots the way of sand is designed with a thick flange
when they get in firms and the club bounces too much off that firm sand
and they hit the middle of the ball and hit a rocket ball across the green
So we've got to counter that with a couple of special adaptations
So ball back towards the middle you can stand quite square on lower the golf club down
So the shaft is lower than normal until the toe of the golf club is up in the air
Make sure the golf club is turned open about as you look at it about one o'clock
and set it so we're gonna go low hands slightly forward and lower than normal
It's going to look like this the other thing I want you to do
Is just lean a little bit into your front leg now when you play this shot this is important
What you want to do is keep that leg flex
The same to the follow-through position so in other words I'm going to strike the shot
And keep the flex in the knee I don't want to feel like I'm straightening up
or going backwards on that because it's not gonna help so let me play a shot for you
And let's see what we can do here it's all the way down to the pin
So what I want to do here is is probably land the ball right on the edge of the green
So I don't have to make it go very far so I'm going to play that shot for you now
let's see how we go
Middle of the stance lower and forward with the hands slightly open
On the follow-through I'm just going to hold the club like this
You know I've got to be pretty happy with that
By setting up with lower hands
the toe of the club in the air
and the hands slightly forward
I'm able to go up and down more into the sand and get the golf club coming through like this
And you can see that what I'm able to do with that is cut into the sand and get a
softer flighted shot
that lee enables me to stay on the green in this case which is really important
And give myself a chance to hit a couple of putts and have a good score from a tough position
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