Bunker Shots for High Handicap Players in Golf

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On behalf of expertvillage.com my name is Ray Boone and I run the Ray Boone Golf Academy at the beautiful Miami Beach Golf Club. Today I'd like to present to you the basics of short game. Here's the bunker shot for the high handicap player, here's the guy that's 30 handicap, 25 handicapper, may not have enough club head speed. A lot of women golfers don't have so much club head speed. What we would like to do with you, instead of opening with club face we want to keep the club face square. Take out your sand wedge, setup more square to the target. Meaning you're going to have your feet and body parallel to the target line, the club face again would be aiming at the target and I would have them make just really their normal golf swing. So you're really going to make a big back swing and a big follow through and you're going to try to hit 1 to 4 inches of sand behind the golf ball. Again, the handicapper does not have such great control over the club head. So if they can hit 1 to 4 inches behind with a big swing, it's going to get them out of the bunker and on the green somewhere. They're not in position yet to where they're going to be able to hit close to the hole. So let's show you that shot. We're setting up square ball pretty much in the middle of the stance for those players and then more of a full swing hitting a couple of inches behind.

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