hi my name is paul wilson and the creator of swing machine golf and the
director of the paul wilson golf school at bears best Las Vegas in this tip
i'm going to show you how to hit perfect bunker shots in a matter of seconds
that's right I did say hit perfect bunker shots in a matter of seconds
now I know hey you may have a lot of trouble hitting out of the sand but i'm
telling you if you can just follow a few simple instructions
you really will get perfect bunker shots in a matter of seconds
ok so in my first tip i showed you how to have the golf club in an open
position
we're opening the face to about two o'clock and that's so that the golf club
skims the top layer of the sand instead of if the face was in a square position
it would dig in too deep
ok so we've got the club in a two o'clock position when we do that we need
to aim our body to the left to compensate for the fact that the ball
will go to the right if the faces in an open position
so for a right-handed golfer we're going to aim to the left
now what do we do when we first come in the sand well the first thing we want to
do is we want to align our body to the left as we get that alignment
we're going to dig our feet in a couple of inches into the sand so we're trying
to find the base to the sand you if you stand on the very top surface this is
very unstable so you could potentially a slip or or wiggle around a little bit
too much but we want to dig down so that we're finding the base
well we're also digging down because when we dig down a couple of inches
we are actually lower than the ball now this is very very important because we
need to hit the sand and not the ball
so in the past I'm sure you've heard of hitting a few inches behind the ball
ok I never want you to think like that if you think like that you're gonna be
the worst bunker player in the world
so we're never going to be thinking of hitting about three inches behind the
ball
this is going to occur because we are lower than the ball when we hit this
shot because we dug our feet in
imagine if you were on grass and you dug your feet in a couple of inches lower
than the ball if you did you would hit the ground behind the ball every single
time
ok so you don't even have to think about hitting behind the ball
this will happen because you dug your feet down ok so that's very very
important
you have to remember that don't be looking at a spot three inches behind
the ball and trying to hit that spot
ok so that's the first step so we did our feet in on a line to the left of the
target now as we go to set up to the shot i'll just show you the line to the
left there's our line
our ball position is going to be a little forward of Center
ok relative to the line left of the target
so we've got our ball in the proper position we don't want to play it too
far back
because we're going to hit the ball first too far forward we're going to
take too much sand so just a little forward of Center is going to be fine
ok now from here we need to do two things when we hit this bunker shot
so I've seen it a zillion people hit a bunker shots before
and out of all those people they find it very difficult to get out
well after analyzing a bunch of people
what I've come to the conclusion or what I found was that a lot of people do not
hinge the golf club properly they do either either locked here or they take
this big long swing
because they feel that they're gonna have to get some power to get this ball
out of the sand
well we need a little bit of power but we don't need to be really hitting that
hard
ok so what we need to do in our backswing is we need to be hinging the
golf club
so as i go back
I'm going to be thinking of the butt end of the golf club when I take the golf
club back i'm going to think about pointing the but at the sand
now I don't want it to be right at the sand
I want you to be almost at the top of your swing
but if you think about pointing the butt of the sand it will probably go up a
little bit higher which is the position that I'd like the club to be in
so from right here if i go into my backside I don't want to do this big
long swing
because i'm going to try to hit real hard and that's just not going to work
ok so from right here I'm going to feel like I'm pointing with butter the club
at the sand
so that means that to me feels like it's at the sand I know it's a little higher
than that so that's our first part to our our swing
we're going to hinge the golf club ok once the club is hinged we're just then
going to take our body and we're going to turn it to the left to hit the actual
shot
now I want you to turn the body on a parallel line left of the target so we
want it on this a parallel line to this line right here
so a good way to do that just make a mark off of your toe right here
ok this this forward to just make a mark there and when you finish your belt
buckle is going to be pinpointing at that mark
ok so we're not hitting behind the ball that will occur
what we're thinking of is in the back swing
we're thinking about hinging so we've hinged the club now to hit the shot
we're not thinking hit we're thinking take the belt buckle and we're going to
turn it left of the shot
ok or that left through the shot
ok so if we do that this is what's going to happen from right here
we hinge and then we turn
ok ball will come out every time perfectly
if we do that so let me show you again so right here I take the golf club into
the back are so I have dug my feet in on a line to the left
the face is open I hinge and then I turn
ok in that process what's going to happen is I end up getting off of this
back foot through the shot and yes i know there's people out there that teach
to keep your feet planted
ok I guarantee that this will work a million times better if you just hinge
and turn
ok it really does work and that'll stop you from being back on this back foot
when you hit the ball i'm sure you've had this shot before when you go like
this and you're hitting way back here behind the ball you leave the ball in
the bunker
ok so we're going to get rid of that shot by getting off of this side by
turning through the shot
so we're going to hinge in our backstroker in the back swing
ok and then we're going to turn on the way through
hinge and turn ok if you notice my follow-through there
I went through I didn't go all the way around but I'm pretty close
ok so i'm really getting right through it
ok so hinge turn and if you do that you're going to be able to hit
perfect bunker shots in a matter of seconds make sure you ask your questions
leave your comments below I'll try to get to as many as I can