Have you been faced with an uphill bunker shot and wondered how you should play it?
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Welcome back, todays question comes from Anthony and Anthony wrote, "Hi Sean, I have been having
a lot of issues with the uphill bunker shot.
Typically I come up short and more often than not I leave them in the bunker.
Do you have any suggestions or techniques that can help me improve?"
Thanks very much for your question, uphill bunker shots can certainly pose a lot of difficulty
for some golfers, but with good fundamentals and good techniques we can definitely get
better and more consistent.
The first thing I would like you to look at is what club you're using to hit this shot.
You mentioned you are coming up short a lot of times.
When we are on an upslope like this typically if you are use to using a lob wedge.
I would like you consider using a sand wedge or a pitching wedge even.
Because we want the ball to carry out onto the green, if we have a lob wedge and we are
back here like this it's literally going to shot the ball right up into the air.
I would suggest playing this shot with a sand wedge or pitching wedge.
Second thing I want you to look at is your setup.
We have to set our body's again with the gradient of the slope.
To get our hips and shoulders parallel to the slope.
I just want you to watch that you're not setting up with too much weight on your left side
because if you do you will dig the club head into the sand.
If you're hanging back too much this way your probably scooping the golf ball and thats
why your having such difficulty with it coming up short.
We are going to set our bodies parallel to the slope.
We are going to play the ball just a little bit up in our stance, but for this particular
shot I want you to aim pretty square to the hole.
There again on our backswing we are going to rotate the face so we can expose the bounce
on the way down.
I want you to watch your hands when you play this shot.
We don't want them getting too high, they are going to feel like they're almost staying
below your belt buckle.
There kind of staying down here and they're not getting up here.
So, lets go ahead and hit one to see what happens.
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