WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:05.559 Your nose needs to be forward to the golf ball in impact. But when 2 00:00:05.559 --> 00:00:08.720 you try to help something up and you start silking backwards to do it, 3 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:12.960 you're starting to move your low point behind the ball and there we go. 4 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:16.760 Now we got are Chunkin's calling it. I hate using the term cuff do 5 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:19.559 the work, but let the lot and the club get the ball up and 6 00:00:19.600 --> 00:00:22.960 out of the stand. There's some lips that people come to take less you 7 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:26.079 last such a high and rim. I'm like, that lip's not even in 8 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:31.160 my awareness. They're getting scared at something that's not really relevant. Once you 9 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:34.399 understand what the club can actually do, especially if you open the base, 10 00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:37.960 you can get so much high on the golf ball. Hi, this is 11 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:42.719 Peter Blackmore from Melbourne, Australia and I play at the Melbourne Airport Golf Club. 12 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:49.479 And this is Golf Smarter number nine four four mastering bunker play with tips 13 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:54.520 and tricks you can use and myths to avoid with Josh Sander. This is 14 00:00:54.719 --> 00:01:00.679 golf Smarter sharing stories, tips and insights from great golf mines to help you 15 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:04.920 lower your score and raise your golf IQ. Here's your host, Fred Green. 16 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:10.200 Welcome back to the golf Smarter podcast. Josh, thanks for having me 17 00:01:10.200 --> 00:01:15.599 back Brett on all It love having you back, man, Like the amount 18 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:21.719 that I learned from you every time totally justifies why I do this podcast. 19 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:23.719 People are like, really do you How did you start this? I said, 20 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:30.000 I wanted free lessons, and it's like, I figure, I'll just 21 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:34.159 talk to golf instructors. And it's like I could bub golf, that's for 22 00:01:34.200 --> 00:01:38.879 sure. And the way you and I met, I was playing in a 23 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:45.000 golf charity golf tournament and you gave a clinic beforehand on short game and bunker 24 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:49.319 play, and I learned so much from that that I thought, let's do 25 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.599 that again. I wanted to talk to you about bunker play today because you 26 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:56.319 gave me some tips that I remember and then sometimes I'm like, wait, 27 00:01:56.519 --> 00:02:00.799 am I supposed to stand here or put the ball there? So there's so 28 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:07.360 much that we can discuss about bunker play. Where do we start on fairway 29 00:02:07.400 --> 00:02:14.080 bunkers or greenside bunkers. Let's start at green side boxers. They're very different. 30 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:17.800 They're very different shots, Yeah, they really are. And I kind 31 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:22.719 of look at bunkers it's kind of like a little sport, little game within 32 00:02:22.759 --> 00:02:30.439 a game. It almost always there is a big misconception in boker play, 33 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:37.319 and that is that you want to get behind the ball. And I'd like 34 00:02:37.400 --> 00:02:42.080 to clarify that and say, it's not hitting behind the ball. It's entering 35 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:45.599 the sand behind the ball. But the actual low point of the swing has 36 00:02:45.680 --> 00:02:49.800 to be past the ball. So the club should still be descending as it 37 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:53.120 enters the sand behind the ball, continue to go down and under the ball 38 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:58.879 and actually reach its low point half the ball, just like on a normal 39 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:01.520 fairway shot. Well, on a fairway shot, you're going to hit the 40 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:07.199 golf ball first and then here you in the sand at first. But the 41 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:10.639 club should still be descending as it's hitting the sand and going under the ball. 42 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:14.800 So sometimes I'll fall, I'll bury a tea into a ball and say, 43 00:03:14.879 --> 00:03:16.199 let's just get the tea out come under the ball. Oh, that's 44 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:20.319 a good one as a good just little little tip. And that gets people 45 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:23.800 to actually try to go down and under the ball rather than hit behind the 46 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:28.080 ball, because if your low point is behind the ball, you will either 47 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:31.560 spat your bunker shot, hit that'll chunk and run, or even worse, 48 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:36.280 the club has reached its low point and it's now ascending by the time it 49 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:38.560 gets to the ball, and that's the one and it stulps. So when 50 00:03:38.599 --> 00:03:44.319 people come in and say, well, I'm both fatting and sculling my bucker 51 00:03:44.360 --> 00:03:46.800 shots, I'm like, oh, it's simple. Your love point's way too 52 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:49.479 far behind the ball. And they're like, well, aren't I supposed to 53 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:52.520 hit behind the ball? I said, you're supposed to enter the sand behind 54 00:03:52.520 --> 00:03:54.199 the ball, But no, you're not going to You're not trying to hit 55 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:58.400 behind the ball. You're actually trying to hit past. But the club is 56 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:01.960 still descending as it enters the sand, water or two itch is behind the 57 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:05.000 ball, and then it's gonna bottom out pass the ball. Then the question, 58 00:04:05.080 --> 00:04:09.680 because well, how do you bottom out pass the ball? What's the 59 00:04:09.719 --> 00:04:12.960 best way to do that? And I kind of think of my nose as 60 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:15.719 kind of like the stutter line of my body, your nose or your stirrum, 61 00:04:15.160 --> 00:04:17.839 and that's pretty much where you're gonna bottom out. So if you put 62 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:23.079 your head or your nose forward the ball so on the target side of the 63 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:26.360 ball, you're gonna have a good chance of having that below. Now, 64 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:30.560 you'd like to have the club descending into the sand on its way to that. 65 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:34.600 So I just put my pressure forward. I'm a right and a golfer, 66 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:38.959 so I clean my pressure onto my beat, slug my left foot, 67 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:42.959 and then I put my nose forward to the ball and then hit the boxer 68 00:04:43.000 --> 00:04:46.319 shots from there, and you end up pitying closer to the ball, but 69 00:04:46.439 --> 00:04:49.519 you'll never skull it because the club is still going downward. Those are the 70 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:55.199 really fine shots people have their home because like, oh my goodness, that's 71 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:58.560 what I'm supposed to do. They hit that nice high bunker shot that takes 72 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:04.160 one off and then it stops like oh god. So I think that's the 73 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:09.800 biggest misconception that people have is that oh I got to I got to pit 74 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:12.399 behind the balls. They put the ball wait for in their stance. Their 75 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:16.040 nose is now behind the ball, and now they're flirting with chunks and skulls, 76 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:20.480 and you'll never get really good distance control. I see the first step 77 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:25.360 that's get yourself out bunker right, like your weekend golfers like, just get 78 00:05:25.399 --> 00:05:27.600 me out a great r thing too. But if I could make bud, 79 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:32.000 that's a bonus, right. The more advanced looor anticap colleague or even touring 80 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:34.920 pro thinking I want to get this up and down. I'm going to try 81 00:05:34.920 --> 00:05:38.439 to hold this bummer shot so they have a lot of control over it. 82 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:43.199 And on tour, the bunkers are so perfectly manicured in there, so it's 83 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:47.319 almost like they had easier bumper shots than most of us do. Because caddies 84 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:53.040 after after a touring pros hit a bumper shot make that thing like look like 85 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:57.040 the work of art. I remember one time I was doing some work for 86 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:00.040 NBC at the Ryder Cup and totten this top dating myself and Tom Lamy just 87 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:05.000 hit a great side bunker shot, and uh, it is Kennedy break the 88 00:06:05.040 --> 00:06:08.319 things so beautifully. I had to give him a compliment. I'm like, 89 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:11.560 that's like the work of art. If I don't do this, then the 90 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:14.959 guys be hiding me super pissed offs. It's just standard procedure for us that. 91 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:17.399 But you know, the rest of us are playing in you know bunkers 92 00:06:17.399 --> 00:06:21.839 that are sort of Parsley Ray footprint there. They did put an upstanding. 93 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:27.480 It's raty whatever it is. They're not perfectly adding here, so they're so 94 00:06:27.519 --> 00:06:30.600 they're challenging. So the last thing you want is to make a challenging shot, 95 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:35.000 even worse by having or a creage more information out there. That's that's 96 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:38.720 around it. Most people's head to come and take lessons, at least for 97 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:40.720 me, is well, I got to hit behind the ball, so I'm 98 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:45.079 gonna play the ball waight forward. I might have the ball or to my 99 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:53.079 stands, but it's not ordered because I'm so much pressure im onto my needs. 100 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:56.639 So that's the first thing I would say for most people out there is 101 00:06:56.959 --> 00:07:02.399 be careful warrior about yeah, and how you know? That's interesting because that's 102 00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:05.920 different than a fairway shot in the sense that you said you hit the ball 103 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:12.360 first, but you got to bring the low point of your swing even lower 104 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:19.639 right, And so how how do you position your body? So now you 105 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:25.800 want to create that steep rang right okay shot requires a steep rayle or what 106 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:30.639 I call the D shaped bottom of the lid. So so if you think 107 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:34.120 about how to create a steep angle, while you can do it cetaal ways, 108 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:39.160 you can do it by leaning your weight off your leads. Lowering your 109 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:43.120 lead shoulder will make a clup go up more and time down steeper. You 110 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:46.040 can have more or leaning your shaft that creates a steep right in the live 111 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:50.240 of the golf ball. You can injure risks more. You get the clup 112 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:56.000 up and out of the stand delivered quicker, you can narrow your back split. 113 00:07:56.279 --> 00:08:00.639 There's this whole mad menu of steep angles that players you to be effective 114 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:03.639 out of the bunker, and that creates an angle it's going to bottom out 115 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:07.920 more under the gulf. Whereas if I was trying to get something off the 116 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:11.759 top of the sand, like a fairly bumper shot, I might go from 117 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:15.480 some more shallow arrangles ball it was a little bit more forward in the stands. 118 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:20.040 The width of this wing, uh, the width gets where that the 119 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:24.040 width gets wider, as you will, I might have the less risk age 120 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:28.519 going back doing a lot of things that shallow angle approach there versus an the 121 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:33.399 green sanded bunker Oromo games were more of a steep bottom of this. That 122 00:08:33.480 --> 00:08:37.720 means there's a lot of information to process before you step into the bunker. 123 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:41.879 And there's also I call it, I think you've talked about this where I 124 00:08:41.879 --> 00:08:43.639 call I call it doing the map before you get a shot, Like what 125 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:46.559 the first thing you gotta do is you got to assess the lot? Okay, 126 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:50.879 what what what does this light telling you? About what's going on? 127 00:08:50.960 --> 00:08:54.279 What's the story this lifestyle is? Are the bunker's heart that are they are? 128 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:58.120 Is it fluffy standard? They just throw a bunch of new sand in. 129 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:01.080 Uh. What kind of a club do I have that's going to have 130 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:05.919 a proper bounce to get at the bunker of this situation? What effort level 131 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:09.840 do I need to create the proper distance control out of this shot? So, 132 00:09:09.919 --> 00:09:13.679 for example, let's say I get in a bunker that's got very little 133 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:18.679 stamp. It's it's you know, maybe maybe there's been a little bit of 134 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:22.519 moisture, some dew, maybe a lit literate, it's a little harder pack. 135 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:24.440 Well, I know I can't open the face as much because then the 136 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:28.120 bounce will get right in a little the back of the bole skullets. I 137 00:09:28.120 --> 00:09:31.000 didn't have to square the base up a little bit more. But now that 138 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:33.559 effects my distance control. The ball is going to come out faster, so 139 00:09:33.639 --> 00:09:37.440 not the effort level my sling has to change. So this is all part 140 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.840 of what's going on in my head. I look at the lie figure out, 141 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:43.440 you know what, what's the ideal shot I'd like to hit? What 142 00:09:43.679 --> 00:09:48.000 can I get from this slide? And what does this slide tell me about 143 00:09:48.039 --> 00:09:50.240 what I can and can't do well, it's the effort level I need. 144 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:52.960 How much can I open the face or how much do the square up the 145 00:09:54.039 --> 00:09:56.600 base? Do I even have to? Is it varied to close the base 146 00:09:56.679 --> 00:10:01.639 maybe or create a steeper angle. But there's all this mathic goes out, 147 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:05.120 goes on in uh, in my mind before I hit this shot, or 148 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:09.480 even when I'm teaching different disc wives out of the poppers, because you can't 149 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:13.200 go in there with the one size. That's all mentality, because if you 150 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:18.799 do that, you're going to be successful, very very small art. Yeah, 151 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:22.200 yeah, and yeah, there are there are bunkers that you know, 152 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:28.679 I play public courses and so sometimes it'll if we had moisture or the sprinklers 153 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:33.120 were on with something, but it's just like hard pan. It's just you 154 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:35.480 know, and then it's like, well, am I treating this like a 155 00:10:35.480 --> 00:10:37.440 bunker shot? Or am I treating this like a chip shot? I mean, 156 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:41.679 we're we're still on a green side bunker here. Yeah, it's it's 157 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:46.399 it's interesting. I mean, if you're if you're really feel interested in being 158 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:50.279 very successful at ploppers, you need to understand what's under your fault. Right. 159 00:10:50.360 --> 00:10:52.759 When I used to be back in the nineties when I was a tour 160 00:10:52.960 --> 00:10:56.879 last wives playing all over the world. During the practice routes, I literally 161 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:01.320 rapped. I probably start digging, digging board, seeing what's underneath this? 162 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:03.600 What am I playing on this week? How's the ball kept? We come 163 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:07.320 out of the bucker this? Uh? That that was a huge part of 164 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:11.679 uh kind of the you know, the investigation process of being a good A 165 00:11:11.679 --> 00:11:16.320 good player is understanding what the course conditions are the week that you're playing. 166 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:22.360 So that's that's, uh, that's super important. I kind of chuck you 167 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:26.279 a little bit here because I have this this one athletic student who U who? 168 00:11:28.279 --> 00:11:30.720 You know? He plays all over the place. So if he said, 169 00:11:30.759 --> 00:11:33.600 you know when and I'm a titleist guy, I'll put a plug in 170 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:37.240 titleist. They make boke Bop book. He makes great wedges, and so 171 00:11:37.320 --> 00:11:41.080 he said, would you order me a portfolio of places but basically keep winding 172 00:11:41.080 --> 00:11:43.840 them off. He said, just order all for me because I'm going to 173 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:48.200 be playing all different kinds of conditions And there's you know, the ballance, 174 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:52.759 the grinds that that that Bock puts in his clubs. Some of them fit 175 00:11:52.440 --> 00:11:58.200 certain courses better than others certain you know, turf conditions, certain bunker conditions. 176 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:01.799 So there's there's they called the Kate Ryan, which is a fantastic buppet 177 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:05.600 club for slufty buckers. But if you're playing hardback buckers, I mean, 178 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:09.639 if you remember the old alien wife at the Huge Bottom, it's the closest 179 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:13.759 pot bok. He comes to Namly Wedge and it's like it's like cheating. 180 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:16.759 You get out of a bomper with why this is with one of his cake 181 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:20.480 ryans. If the bompers are fluffy, but it's if they're not, then 182 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:22.879 you're gonna have a tough time, you know, not staring with all that 183 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:28.639 glove. So uh. And then there's the Tea Grind that's like it's only 184 00:12:28.639 --> 00:12:31.080 got four degrees of ballots. It's great out of tight wives and buckers and 185 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:35.600 pipelines around green. So I mean, if I'd a competitive player, I've 186 00:12:35.639 --> 00:12:41.840 got I've got portfolio wedges that I'm going to look into to figure out which 187 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:45.480 ones are making the traveling team, so to speak, for this week. 188 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:52.360 You can't expect. You can't expect one club to fit all situations, just 189 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:56.759 like you can't expect to you know, set the club up the same for 190 00:12:56.799 --> 00:13:03.639 different situations, or have the same effort low. There's a fantastic player flash 191 00:13:03.639 --> 00:13:09.159 teacher the past away if he was gonna Phil Rogers and I was first getting 192 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:13.440 into the teaching business. I I was looking into, you know, just 193 00:13:13.559 --> 00:13:18.720 learning back then the pja Quichy and teaching. Some that they used to put 194 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:22.960 out VHS tapes of the recordings of all the great teachers talking about bunkers and 195 00:13:24.000 --> 00:13:28.320 Phil Rogers talking about about about teaching. Phil Rogers was doing a bunker one 196 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:31.360 and he said something interesting. He said, a bucker shot will go about 197 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:35.759 one third of the distance that the same swing would produce from brets. So 198 00:13:35.879 --> 00:13:41.639 a stock basic bunker shot, if you want to hit, for example, 199 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:45.759 a ten yard green side bopper shot, it would require the same effort level 200 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:48.720 that it would to hit a thirty yard shot. And I always thought that 201 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:54.200 was a great starting point to help you know the week helper understand like how 202 00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:56.919 much effort level do you really need to get this ball? But that's also 203 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:03.399 based on making good content. So I've always said, you know that that 204 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:09.720 distance control comes from good contact and paying attention. Right, So if you 205 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:13.159 if you want to chip it really well. You first have the happy contact, 206 00:14:13.159 --> 00:14:13.960 but then you also have to pay attention to out part of the ole 207 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:18.039 is you know where to land it now? I just roll up, builds 208 00:14:18.039 --> 00:14:20.679 down. All that information is a matter of paying attention, and a lot 209 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:24.080 of times I get frustrated when people like practice things without looking at the ole 210 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:26.600 eye. You look at the old see where you're going to land this ball? 211 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:30.080 How's it going to roll out? Part? You know, there's this 212 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:35.519 intuition that we have as human beings at alses understand you know, I'm gonna 213 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:37.360 throw all the three feet awaight, I don't three feet away. I don't 214 00:14:37.399 --> 00:14:41.799 wind up and shift my weight. I just tossed it to the really softly 215 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:45.600 right. So it's the same thing when you do at short game shots is 216 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:50.080 understanding what effort level it takes. But you need to have I go back 217 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:52.320 to the first thing we talked about, which is you need to know how 218 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:56.159 to make proper contact in the bunk because about that, you don't really know 219 00:14:56.240 --> 00:15:01.159 what after a level put in there. Because if you you're chunking and spelling 220 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:03.039 your brands like you spalling hit that with art. No, you didn't hit 221 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:07.639 it to art. You bellied it. You just alled it over the grate 222 00:15:07.039 --> 00:15:11.240 that you really have an effort level to really get that shell. You just 223 00:15:11.399 --> 00:15:13.840 bottomed out behind the bull, caught it up in the EPs. All right, 224 00:15:15.440 --> 00:15:16.759 well, let's take a break, and when we come back, we're 225 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:24.720 going to talk about amateur players and their game and the myth that they have 226 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:30.159 in their head that that ruin every bunker shot they take. And we'll be 227 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:39.320 back right after this. So yeah, a lot of time you'll be talking 228 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:45.200 about these professionals who did this and this, you know kid who's on your 229 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:50.200 you know, your team, and you're getting them ready for high level competitive 230 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:56.559 play. I think that when I watch the people that I play with, 231 00:15:56.960 --> 00:16:03.360 amateurs and recreational players that are you know, mid handicap, it seems like 232 00:16:03.399 --> 00:16:08.000 everyone's trying to lift the ball out of the bunker with their clubs. And 233 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:11.679 we've been talking a lot about that lately, about lifting the ball as opposed 234 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:18.120 to making that contact go ahead. There's this instinct that you want to lift 235 00:16:18.159 --> 00:16:22.639 the ball out the boxer and sure that the tendency if you do that is 236 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:29.039 to tilt backwards. Throw something up you tilt backwards. I remember, we 237 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:30.600 go back to the first part of our conversation, where should your nose. 238 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:34.240 Your nose needs to be forward to the golf ball. In it fact that 239 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:37.679 we try to help something up and you start tilting backwards to do it, 240 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:42.440 you're starting to move your low point behind the ball, and there we go. 241 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:48.600 Now we know are Chunkin's calling it. So yeah, let the I 242 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:51.799 hate using the term do the work, but let the lot and the club 243 00:16:51.840 --> 00:16:55.120 get the ball up and out of the stand and you will be amazed. 244 00:16:55.519 --> 00:16:57.840 There's some lips that people you know, come take less. You're like, 245 00:16:57.879 --> 00:17:02.120 well, that's such a hide it. I'm like, that lip's not even 246 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:06.319 in my awareness, it's not even close. And then I'll take a video 247 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:10.440 of them hitting it shot and the balls their the lip by like three or 248 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:12.960 four feet. It's like, you know, they're they're getting scared. It's 249 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:17.799 something that's not really relevant once you understand what the club can actually do, 250 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:19.640 especially if you open the face. You can get so much high on the 251 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:25.599 golf ball if you got the proper the proper content. Another thing, if 252 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:30.119 you don't mind me going on with what's a different thought here about bunker playlet, 253 00:17:30.680 --> 00:17:33.799 I'm real good on going in different directions go for it. This is 254 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:38.799 something that's that's that I would say one of my another one of my pet 255 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:44.599 fieves and bunker play. It's people think they need to cut across the golf 256 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:48.279 and have an open stains. So they take, well, I've opened my 257 00:17:48.359 --> 00:17:52.640 club base, so I now have to open my stands. Right, if 258 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:56.039 I'm a right hitded player, well, I open the club base is pointing 259 00:17:56.079 --> 00:17:57.359 to the right, so now I need to aim my feet to let and 260 00:17:57.400 --> 00:18:03.799 then we have this able to try to hit the golf ball so out across 261 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:07.319 the golf ball. And when I was a rookie teacher back in the early 262 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:12.000 nineties, I hated teaching bucker because I could not help people with the traditional 263 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:18.440 open your club face, open the dance swing across swing out. And at 264 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:22.759 one point I said, this is so bad both my little bucker game, 265 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:26.599 trying to do this and teaching it. So I did to do the oposit 266 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:32.200 I'm going to close my stands and I still open the face, but I'm 267 00:18:32.200 --> 00:18:36.519 going to close my stands and I started hit these beautiful high stop bunker shots 268 00:18:36.559 --> 00:18:40.279 with square spin, no sides. I hate the ball kicking out on the 269 00:18:40.279 --> 00:18:45.640 grid and kicking off to the right things they came across. So God, 270 00:18:45.680 --> 00:18:48.880 I can't remember how many years ago spoke the golf chair. I was at 271 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:52.759 a teaching at vent and the Golf channel asked me to do a bunker the 272 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:57.480 bunker baby, and so I set up and then I set up alide from 273 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:02.480 my feet, which was dead square. I opened my clock face but then 274 00:19:02.519 --> 00:19:04.720 lowered my candle. For those who understand, and you lower the handle, 275 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:08.960 the face closes so that offsets the open face. So and I had a 276 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:11.400 nice, nice line the boxers. I said, here's what I'm gonna do. 277 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:15.480 I'm gonna have a square stance with my feet flared out, but no, 278 00:19:15.480 --> 00:19:22.920 no open stands. I'm going to lower the handle. I'm going to 279 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:26.599 lead to my lead side so my nose is more to the golf and I'm 280 00:19:26.599 --> 00:19:33.599 gonna swing into it on plane, not outside it. And they entitled it 281 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:38.640 Unconventional Bunker Advice was the name of the video. Wow, basically it was. 282 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:41.359 I want to say it was ahead of its time, but I think 283 00:19:41.400 --> 00:19:45.319 it's time had caught that so many people were struggling with this open the face 284 00:19:45.359 --> 00:19:51.279 come outside it. And then I'm watching golf on TV a day and Johnny 285 00:19:51.319 --> 00:19:53.039 Miller says, you notice the tournet pros these days, they'd open, they'd 286 00:19:53.079 --> 00:19:56.279 open their stances. Didny want bucker shops? And I started to laughing to 287 00:19:56.319 --> 00:20:00.680 myself, of course, not because that old way of teaching to open the 288 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:04.559 face outside didn't sleep was poor. I don't know started it, but like 289 00:20:06.160 --> 00:20:08.480 shaking them and saying, what didn't you do you set balker play back? 290 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:12.200 You know, God no, God knows how many years. So I'd say 291 00:20:12.240 --> 00:20:17.519 another piece of advice I have to people is try squaring yourself up with your 292 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:22.559 stance in the bunker and not aiming way open. I would say, experiment 293 00:20:22.599 --> 00:20:27.519 but lowering handle to get the left face back to square rather than trying to 294 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:30.880 hope your stance to do that. Let me stop you for just a second. 295 00:20:30.880 --> 00:20:34.079 When you say I want to clarify lower the handle, so for right 296 00:20:34.079 --> 00:20:40.640 handed golfer, does that mean going forward or lower lower the handle like you 297 00:20:40.640 --> 00:20:41.880 were going to take. If you set up in your normal stance and you 298 00:20:41.920 --> 00:20:45.920 said our family to left the club ball to the ground, the handle ball 299 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:49.079 toward the sayd I want to lowering forward to see so if you open a 300 00:20:49.119 --> 00:20:53.839 club face down, a face to the right, whenever you lower a handle, 301 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:56.680 the face points to love, so they upset each other. And I'll 302 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:03.279 show people with one of those oh, I say, those li angle magnets, 303 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:06.839 and I'll show Okay, you lower the handle the face. It's kind 304 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:08.480 of like what happens when you're the balls of up your feet right, the 305 00:21:08.480 --> 00:21:12.400 ball big bluff face points to his right hand because the handle has been lower 306 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:17.759 right face points to the right, and handles fire on a on a y 307 00:21:17.880 --> 00:21:22.279 with the ball's lawyer right. So whenever you lower a handle points to face 308 00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:25.200 that left, so that will offset the fact that your face is open. 309 00:21:25.279 --> 00:21:27.720 Now all you have is a loft. So if I start with my sixty 310 00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:33.119 and I open it up to eighty degrees, I can lower the handle and 311 00:21:33.119 --> 00:21:34.640 make my bluff based to pine at the target. Now I have an eighty 312 00:21:34.640 --> 00:21:40.480 degree locked up in debt square. Highball comes out straight and rolls straight, 313 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:44.519 and it doesn't have that quirky little kick to the right that you see a 314 00:21:44.519 --> 00:21:48.400 lot of people who swing out. Take it right out. That helps so 315 00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:53.200 much on a distance control. The only redeeming value of having it outside of 316 00:21:53.240 --> 00:21:56.480 the sway of the bunker is the fact that an outside of his swing is 317 00:21:56.480 --> 00:22:00.480 a steep angle, and that helps you get down into the sand. Other 318 00:22:00.519 --> 00:22:04.559 than everything else about it is awful. So I can create so many different 319 00:22:04.640 --> 00:22:10.240 ways of getting a steep angle and sing it without being outside it. Like 320 00:22:10.279 --> 00:22:11.880 I said earlier, I could lean more weight to my left side, I 321 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:15.599 could pop my wrists up sooner, I could lower my leech older more. 322 00:22:15.599 --> 00:22:18.400 I got a ton of tricks to do that, and I don't, and 323 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:22.640 I can still have that ball coming out with what I call square backs. 324 00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:30.119 So one of my coaches when I was a Tory professionals wrote used to be 325 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:33.119 at the Sanrcisco Golf Club and great, great, great guy, great teacher, 326 00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:37.079 and who was playing in the era of Lee Trevino, And he said, 327 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:41.480 I'd like to sit at Le Trevito's bag watch him practice because he hit 328 00:22:41.480 --> 00:22:45.119 his wedges and square stin And I never forgot that. Because when you have 329 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:48.920 square spin other vers true backspin, where there's not any kick to to the 330 00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:55.319 right on your ball, that's a really easy shot to control, especially what 331 00:22:55.440 --> 00:22:59.519 happens after the ball lands on the green. Because I'm trying to hold my 332 00:22:59.559 --> 00:23:04.079 bumper shot right. Why would I want to app to try to get my 333 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:07.799 ball to start left, so get kicked to the right, carram into the 334 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:10.920 whole out way. It's like, just get it to roll straight. So 335 00:23:11.000 --> 00:23:14.240 in order to view that, we need to be square back. So I 336 00:23:14.359 --> 00:23:18.880 swing on a good plane inside to inside rather than the outside, and I 337 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:23.119 have loft on my face because I've lowered the handle and o face. I 338 00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:27.400 bet a lofted square face and an on plane and swing. It produces beautiful 339 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:34.680 square stin bunker shots. So does it make any difference on your swing? 340 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:42.759 Sure, there's so many different variables involved here, like being close to the 341 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:48.319 front edge of the of the bunker bunker where you're on an upslope, or 342 00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:52.039 being in the back of the bunker where there's a down slope. We're just 343 00:23:52.079 --> 00:23:56.960 talking about a nice fluffy lie here. But then you know, we've all 344 00:23:56.880 --> 00:24:00.160 the number one piece of advice would be don't go on the bunker. But 345 00:24:00.599 --> 00:24:03.599 this is golf and it's going to end up there, sooner or later. 346 00:24:03.839 --> 00:24:07.039 I tell people this all thought. If you get in the bunker, you're 347 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:08.640 pretty close to the greedy. You could have been that out of a shot 348 00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:12.759 right around the greed. So don't try to avoid the bunkers. Become a 349 00:24:12.759 --> 00:24:17.319 good bunker player. I get the bucker. I'm like, cool, that's 350 00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:22.200 just too logical, Josh, come on, brockers, you're going to start 351 00:24:22.359 --> 00:24:26.920 avoiding greens. It's hard, it's really hard to good players hit it in 352 00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:30.160 the boxers. That's what they do because balkers are right next to the right, 353 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:33.680 next to the three, which is where the flag is. So I 354 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:37.359 don't ever tell people try to avoid it. I've never I don't think I've 355 00:24:37.359 --> 00:24:41.480 ever uttered those where's try to avoid the bump. I can go back and 356 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:45.880 erase that if you want me to. You just got to. You got 357 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:49.559 to face the challenge is part it's part of the game. And that's you 358 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:53.160 know, make it, make it a strict Just understand. It's not like 359 00:24:53.319 --> 00:24:57.160 it's it takes an amazing athlete to hit a bunker shot. It's just you 360 00:24:57.279 --> 00:25:00.960 just have to have the right informations, like just building skills. Here as 361 00:25:02.319 --> 00:25:04.559 golf instructord we build the skill of being a bucker play. But it is 362 00:25:04.599 --> 00:25:10.279 a different skill than almost any other shot at golf. Yeah. Yeah, 363 00:25:10.279 --> 00:25:11.960 that's why I wanted to focus on it. And you know, it's not 364 00:25:12.160 --> 00:25:18.680 just the right information, it's the right attitude because if you if your ball 365 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:21.039 goes in the bunker and you're like, oh god, I hate playing the 366 00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:22.119 bunker. Oh this is going to be too right. If you do that, 367 00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:26.359 you're doomed. But if you go into it going this is going to 368 00:25:26.440 --> 00:25:27.920 be fun. I love these shots. This is going to be great. 369 00:25:29.400 --> 00:25:32.759 You know, it's going to help. May not, you may not have 370 00:25:32.839 --> 00:25:34.599 success, but it's going to help. I think a lot of times when 371 00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:37.960 people hit in the bunker, they think, Okay, well now my score 372 00:25:37.000 --> 00:25:40.240 is going to go up, and so they have a bad attitude. Right 373 00:25:40.599 --> 00:25:41.519 right, I could have been on the green, but not. I'm a 374 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:45.799 bucker, so I have to figure out how to save how to save myself 375 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:48.599 from the situation. It's like if you think of and this sport go down 376 00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:52.079 and totally different having me about how to you know, mentally play the game. 377 00:25:52.440 --> 00:25:56.799 Yeah, I like what you just said about, Hey, I've got 378 00:25:56.799 --> 00:26:04.480 this cool opportunity or I could hold this or I can't wait to see what 379 00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:10.359 kind of challenge I have here. And it's an individual event in this day 380 00:26:10.359 --> 00:26:15.000 of golf, you're playing that you get to get this cool shot. I 381 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:18.720 was playing. I was doing a plane lesson yesterday and I'd hit a bunker 382 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:22.880 shot, which I fought was really good, and it just kept rolling and 383 00:26:22.920 --> 00:26:26.240 there went down this embankment and then I had I had a lob shot with 384 00:26:26.240 --> 00:26:29.200 no greedy to work with that. I hit it a little short, right 385 00:26:29.200 --> 00:26:33.559 back to my feet and my shot to the green which is purely out, 386 00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:36.720 and it topped the top of the bucker went in. I hit this beautiful 387 00:26:36.759 --> 00:26:41.079 bunker shot exactly how I want to do, but I misjudged it when green 388 00:26:41.240 --> 00:26:44.319 was going away from me and I didn't maybe I didn't take that A new 389 00:26:44.319 --> 00:26:48.359 acout kept quickly. I mean I hit the bunker shire by my group's ah, 390 00:26:48.480 --> 00:26:52.519 great shot, and I'm like, oh, oh, pleasy, lob 391 00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:57.240 shot to about ten feet and I hit a beautiful pot and I missed the 392 00:26:57.240 --> 00:27:03.839 butt and I looked at the plane like one of my idt to play Lessondell, 393 00:27:03.920 --> 00:27:07.680 like I think I just hit. I had really good shots on that 394 00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:11.079 bar three and I just laughed. I'm like, man, this game, 395 00:27:11.279 --> 00:27:15.200 this game, really, this really something. Hit a batch out on the 396 00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:21.000 hole. I'd made a double on a one hundred and fifty side yard par 397 00:27:21.079 --> 00:27:23.160 three, which you never should be should be a great birdy hour or three 398 00:27:23.160 --> 00:27:26.240 where you get to hit all with one hundred and fifty five, which is 399 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:30.000 is a cop eight hour. Yeah, you got my first at fifteen feet 400 00:27:30.119 --> 00:27:33.920 and boom in the fucker. But you know what, like if you got 401 00:27:34.039 --> 00:27:37.359 to, you gotta take it. You got just like that. That's coff, 402 00:27:37.440 --> 00:27:40.319 you know. Now the time hit the edge of that boxer kick right 403 00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:41.240 next to the hall, I make it too, you know. It's like 404 00:27:41.400 --> 00:27:45.480 that. So all I can say is, Josh, welcome to our world. 405 00:27:45.759 --> 00:27:57.359 We'll be back right after this. Okay, we've talked about ball being 406 00:27:59.079 --> 00:28:02.839 back of the bunker, ball being in front of the bunker. We haven't 407 00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:06.119 actually talked about that. We mentioned, we mentioned, Yeah, well I 408 00:28:06.160 --> 00:28:08.200 do. I do want to, you know, figure that out because you've 409 00:28:08.200 --> 00:28:15.519 got different attacks going on here, correct. So I use this. I 410 00:28:15.640 --> 00:28:22.160 use this visual where I just hold up the club between my thumb and my 411 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:23.440 exs finger and I just let it splay back and forth, and I show 412 00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:27.359 people this is a club swing. There's a point where the club is sleep 413 00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:32.680 that word, and there's a point where the club is sleep upward. Well 414 00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:37.519 point lowest point is directly underneath the top end of the club. So if 415 00:28:37.519 --> 00:28:41.400 you can visualize club swinging back and forth like a pension. Right. Okay, 416 00:28:41.359 --> 00:28:47.319 so it's we're on a on an uphill lot. Right, you're on 417 00:28:47.319 --> 00:28:49.559 the up slope. Well, where do you where do you want it? 418 00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:52.440 How do you want to set the club so you can splain them up the 419 00:28:52.440 --> 00:28:56.039 slope? The hand little should be behind the club. The other words, 420 00:28:56.039 --> 00:29:00.119 you need to have a shaft this leading as a right and ended player to 421 00:29:00.119 --> 00:29:02.519 the right. We're away from the target, so the club can swing up 422 00:29:02.519 --> 00:29:06.160 the hill on your setup on the swing, yeah, on the set, 423 00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:11.960 yeah yeah, so it can swing it up along the slope. If I'm 424 00:29:11.000 --> 00:29:15.559 on a down lie, then I wanted to have a forward the chat because 425 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:19.319 that being the club is swinging downward at the moment straight right, and then 426 00:29:19.440 --> 00:29:25.680 you can It's a little tricky when you're doing an uphill lie. I had 427 00:29:25.680 --> 00:29:30.839 a great discussion with James Seepman about this is a fabulous Shorking teacher. We 428 00:29:30.880 --> 00:29:33.359 were doing a school together and it was we were trying to upbilized out a 429 00:29:33.400 --> 00:29:38.000 bunker and he said, I don't really like my students to add their shoulders 430 00:29:38.039 --> 00:29:41.799 a laminus slope, you know, with parallels and the slope on bunker shots, 431 00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:47.680 because if they happen to fit one. You know. That's that's dot 432 00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:52.599 trip each teaching toys. You're mirissing cuts if you do that kind of stuff. 433 00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:56.720 So and I said, I agree, because the other thing is when 434 00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:00.519 you tilt your shoulders with the slope on an upfill, lie all going back 435 00:30:00.359 --> 00:30:03.680 away from the target pitch. Now, if it's the loop, like way 436 00:30:03.720 --> 00:30:06.319 too far behind the ball that you talked about it earlier in there, you 437 00:30:06.319 --> 00:30:11.319 know, So what I do is I set my shoulders not with the slope, 438 00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:15.680 but slightly into the slope, so the club has a chance to get 439 00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:19.680 into the ground, but the handle's back enough so it doesn't dig into the 440 00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:25.119 ground too much. So set up for rupt hill lives. Write this down 441 00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:30.359 for you folks, or stuff shoulders not parallel to this, Slightly into the 442 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:37.759 slope and the handle back. Okay, Now, when you're doing it downhill, 443 00:30:37.839 --> 00:30:41.400 lie usually in the back of the bunker. On a down slope, 444 00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:45.720 you need to get your shoulder big type of the slope or even more because 445 00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:49.079 you try to dig down into it and you want the handle for them. 446 00:30:49.200 --> 00:30:52.440 The ball will come out low. That's just part of the deal. So 447 00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.480 if it's goat come out low. You need to understand how it's going to 448 00:30:56.519 --> 00:31:00.920 react once it gets the greed and the pin is not always not easy an 449 00:31:00.920 --> 00:31:03.359 option as far as where you're eating. So when you hit, I mean, 450 00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:07.400 I think those uphill lies and in front of the bunk of those are 451 00:31:07.400 --> 00:31:11.000 easy you can spot. With those the downhill lies, I'm thinking, I 452 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:15.359 can get it three out of here. I'm doing a great job. Get 453 00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:22.039 it somewhere where I could get down into from wherever it is, because that's 454 00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:25.680 where cripple doubles and triples out from on those downhill lies out in the bunker, 455 00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:33.599 right, yeah, right, But then you have the issue of the 456 00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:37.279 flag being close to the bunker and then the flag being on the opposite side 457 00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:41.279 of the green from the bunker. When something the opposite side of green, 458 00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:44.680 the downhill bunker shots actually out of bet because it ball comes out low and 459 00:31:44.720 --> 00:31:48.440 the release and just keeps going. Yeah. That when the pin's tight to 460 00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:51.680 the bunker and you're on an up though slope, that's actually super easy. 461 00:31:51.720 --> 00:31:53.799 Just pops up really high and lantly softly. So those are those are kind 462 00:31:53.799 --> 00:32:00.160 of green light situations. But the opposite, if the pin is tight the 463 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:04.039 bucker and you're on downhill slow. Yeah, I agree to work with some 464 00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:07.720 help figure out how to get it in a position where you can get down 465 00:32:07.759 --> 00:32:14.240 two strokes out that. Yeah, just take your boat and get out of 466 00:32:14.279 --> 00:32:16.200 there. Have live to fight another day. Don't try to get cute with 467 00:32:16.240 --> 00:32:20.640 that one. To leave it to the bucker right, slid over green the 468 00:32:20.680 --> 00:32:22.920 other one carrier and then now you're just making a huge humber. Yeah. 469 00:32:23.079 --> 00:32:27.440 Yeah, So just accept the fact that you're probably not going to par this 470 00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:30.960 hole unless it's pure luck. And that happens in golf, and that's why 471 00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:37.079 we keep going back. But yeah, because if you try to get too 472 00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:42.000 cute with something, especially that's real close to it, you're gonna not even 473 00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:45.799 get out of the bunker, and then you'll really be frustrated and angry, 474 00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:47.960 and then you'll it'll just show up in the next shot. And then what 475 00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:53.160 happens, which I've I've not only seen multiple times, I've done many times, 476 00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:57.599 is you hit you try to hit the ball out of the bunker, 477 00:32:57.720 --> 00:33:00.799 it stays in the bunker, and you don't take your full set up again. 478 00:33:00.839 --> 00:33:04.519 You just walk up to it and swing and swing and swing and swing. 479 00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:07.359 Right then your frustration gets in the way right. You know one of 480 00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:09.920 the things that we we you know, we talk about a lot in this 481 00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:16.880 is just having the proper information is a huge first step. Yeah, I 482 00:33:16.920 --> 00:33:22.240 think it's a I think it's it's it's it's a bumber when you go in 483 00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:27.279 there trying to do one thing and expecting that that one thing's gonna work. 484 00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:30.039 You need to be able to adjust to all these different situations, and a 485 00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:34.640 lot of that comes from just going and doing you know that work that didn't 486 00:33:34.680 --> 00:33:37.039 work, I could do, I do this. This is the effort level 487 00:33:37.039 --> 00:33:39.640 I hear. It's you see that that the people who sport a bunkers, 488 00:33:39.640 --> 00:33:44.519 they spend a lot of time praxiing bumpers. And when when Tiger was at 489 00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:47.880 stamp Or he and Noda Bagay used to give themselves the worst lies in the 490 00:33:47.880 --> 00:33:53.279 bunkers and and have competitions. Now, that's how you really learn. If 491 00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:58.440 you keep giving yourself that perfect line to bunker to make yourself feel good. 492 00:33:58.599 --> 00:34:02.880 How often does that happen on the call? Not very often now, so 493 00:34:02.920 --> 00:34:07.400 you're really not practicing for the test. You're practicing make yourself ill that you 494 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:10.840 can do it. It's like nat set, it's harder if you could make 495 00:34:10.920 --> 00:34:16.039 your practice harder than the game, that's what great coaches doing. He hates 496 00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:21.199 sports. They make practices harder than the gay. If you're making your gate 497 00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:24.840 your practice easier than the game, you're not really preparing. So don't be 498 00:34:24.920 --> 00:34:30.920 surprised when you fail. But if you do what Noda and Tiger would do, 499 00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:37.400 I yeah, had a little bit of success. Well, yeah, 500 00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:39.000 you might have had a little bit of success. Well, first of all, 501 00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:46.199 they were both plankets Stanford. Yeah, so all right, so now 502 00:34:46.440 --> 00:34:52.000 we've got ourselves. There's there's one hole in particular that I play that the 503 00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:58.599 bunker is in front of the green, but it's about fifteen yards in front 504 00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:02.800 of the green. So it creates this illusion because it's got this elevantor you 505 00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:07.800 know that the back of the bunker, which is closer to you when you're 506 00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:12.480 in the fairway, is higher up, so it kind of blocks where the 507 00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:15.159 green is, and you're thinking, I just need to get it over the 508 00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:17.679 green. And yet you know, well, when you're when you're in the 509 00:35:17.679 --> 00:35:22.639 bunker, you just it's it's a longer shot, but it's not a fair 510 00:35:22.719 --> 00:35:24.800 way bunker shot. Right. That's one of the artist shots at golf. 511 00:35:24.800 --> 00:35:32.880 It's like that super long creates it. Yeah, it that's yeah, it's 512 00:35:32.880 --> 00:35:39.639 an interesting that's a that's an interesting shot because I'd think back to like this 513 00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:44.480 the strokes gain that Mark Brody talks about, and that's one of the one 514 00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:46.679 of the shots that's like when somebody gets in a like a forty yard bocker 515 00:35:46.760 --> 00:35:51.760 shot. It even the Tory pros they're not they're not getting those up and 516 00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:53.800 down very well. It's shit. Is just a tough shot, but one 517 00:35:53.840 --> 00:35:57.400 of the one of the best pieces about ice I can give you. On 518 00:35:57.440 --> 00:36:01.400 those you can still play them explosions, But think about the ratio I gave 519 00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:06.480 you earlier, the Bill Rodgers ratio of three to one. So if you 520 00:36:06.480 --> 00:36:08.239 have a forty yard bucker shop, it's gonna take one hundred and twenty yards 521 00:36:08.239 --> 00:36:12.679 wick gets you there. Is that your sandwich. I don't know a lot 522 00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:15.159 of amateur players who get their standwich one hundred and twenty yards. I don't. 523 00:36:16.280 --> 00:36:19.360 I mean, I've got some pretty good let speed. I had my 524 00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:22.440 sandwich one hundred yards. I'm not going to get it there with a full 525 00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:27.639 blast bucker shot. I'm gonna have to take my gap ledge or my pitching 526 00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:30.599 ge. Sometimes I take a nine iron, I'll play it explosion shot with 527 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:35.480 the lass lotted club to give me some of the distance. Again, if 528 00:36:35.480 --> 00:36:37.039 I can make a three from there, right, I can make it two. 529 00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:39.880 That's a huge boutance. But I don't want to make a four from 530 00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:44.280 forty yards in the in the in that bocker. But those those are some 531 00:36:44.320 --> 00:36:49.280 of the artner shots. So maybe I'll take one thing back when I was 532 00:36:49.320 --> 00:36:52.760 saying, when you talk about aiding buckers, avoiding those bockers, not the 533 00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:55.920 green side buckers, but the ones that are thirty forty yards from the green, 534 00:36:57.639 --> 00:37:02.079 Yes, because you're gonna do much better through seventy yards from the fairway 535 00:37:02.119 --> 00:37:07.000 then you are forty yards from the fairy balker. Yeah, that kind of 536 00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:10.239 inside slash fairry bunker you're talking those are those are just traps that are just 537 00:37:12.079 --> 00:37:15.599 those are Yeah, they're they're they're there to mess with you. And and 538 00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:20.599 this one is on a long part five right, Yeah, so it's hard 539 00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:23.719 to get to that green and you know, so you you're going forward, 540 00:37:23.719 --> 00:37:25.679 it's like, oh, I just put it on the side of the bunker. 541 00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:30.559 Oh you're gonna flirt with it. Yeah, bad idea. Bad idea, 542 00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:37.559 just come up short of you when you're already greedy. That's uh, 543 00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:39.880 yeah, that takes, that's that's yeah. That's part of playing golfers to 544 00:37:39.920 --> 00:37:45.880 be able to check your ego and play the smart what like like Tiger and 545 00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:50.920 Nicholas, the two best ever say, make it, make an aggressives sling 546 00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:54.599 to a conservative target and that's out of conservative target, be at one of 547 00:37:54.639 --> 00:38:00.320 those thirty to forty yard buckers. You know what we say, golf smarter, 548 00:38:00.880 --> 00:38:04.800 all smarter. There you go. All right, we're gonna take another 549 00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:14.800 break. We'll be back right after this. All right, Well, what 550 00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:17.360 we haven't talked about now, and let's do that since we've kind of inched 551 00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:22.960 our way back from the green a little bit with those close ones that are 552 00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:28.880 really annoying, but fairway bunkers. Now, is that the same type of 553 00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:34.119 shot? Are you just you know, just trying to get it out or 554 00:38:34.159 --> 00:38:36.880 if you feed or you're trying to get some distance on the ball and maybe 555 00:38:36.920 --> 00:38:40.559 even if it's a par four you could possibly get to the green. Yeah. 556 00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:44.440 A lot of it devans on assessing the lie. What's the lie about 557 00:38:44.480 --> 00:38:46.599 you to do? What's the biggest let you have? To get over all 558 00:38:46.639 --> 00:38:52.280 those fans of day so. In general, fair way bunkers don't tend to 559 00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:54.960 have as much sand as green side boers. They tend to make them a 560 00:38:55.039 --> 00:38:59.960 little bit. You rarely get into a bond crid that's a fairway bond gerd. 561 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:04.000 It's got fluffy, soft sand. That's usually not the case they want 562 00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:07.639 to give you. I think they want to give you a chance. In 563 00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:12.159 general, what I do is is kind of the opposite of what I do 564 00:39:12.199 --> 00:39:14.599 on a green soap box. It's in a green side bumpker. You want 565 00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:17.719 your nose forward the ball, I would say a fairry buker. I like 566 00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:22.480 to at my nose behind the ball, so more forward in my stance that 567 00:39:22.679 --> 00:39:28.400 shaft ever so slightly backward leaning, so the club will be a sanity by 568 00:39:28.519 --> 00:39:31.079 the time it hits a ball. Now, if it's a setting, it 569 00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:34.880 means that you're going to catch it a little bit on the thin side, 570 00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:38.599 which is not necessarily a bad thing. So you clip the ball pretty clearly. 571 00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:43.360 You might catch rub or two lower on the base there the sweet spot, 572 00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:45.559 but you're getting the ball up and out of the bucker with some nice 573 00:39:45.599 --> 00:39:52.679 distance on it. I was taught originally to play the ball more back in 574 00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:55.559 my standings out of the bumper. I'm sairy dockers and I would hit these 575 00:39:55.719 --> 00:40:00.639 lying dry missiles out of the bucker that could never hold a even if it 576 00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:07.159 got so I've reserved those kinds of shots where if the line's not breaked and 577 00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:12.400 I have to hit down eye to kind of hit more up like a punch 578 00:40:12.480 --> 00:40:15.280 type shot a little back and stands. I'll do that, but it's always 579 00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:19.960 the second choice. The first choice is if I could play a little forward 580 00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:22.639 my stance and access to the back of the ball and I can kind of 581 00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:25.639 flip it out on the top of the sand like that. That's what I'll 582 00:40:25.679 --> 00:40:29.320 do, and I can get some beautiful height on because we put the ball 583 00:40:29.400 --> 00:40:31.000 or forward your stance, you can get some nice trajectory on. I get 584 00:40:31.000 --> 00:40:37.880 opened lip, and so that's how I'll do it. I also like to 585 00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:43.519 play the club based a touch open, which is a shallow animal and he 586 00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:45.559 ti close the club basic. You think about one thing we didn't talk about, 587 00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:50.000 the green side bunkers. When it's super bary, one of the one 588 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:52.639 of the opts just can really shut the face, which digs a lot well. 589 00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:57.079 The opposite. Opening the face a little bit is anti dging, so 590 00:40:57.480 --> 00:41:00.920 it's easier to shallow out your impact. If you have the face touch open. 591 00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:04.719 It also can see a little bit. So what I do is I 592 00:41:04.760 --> 00:41:08.159 open the club base a touch. I'll grip down probably quarter inch, just 593 00:41:08.199 --> 00:41:12.599 so I don't reach reach ground. I'm not a big fan of digging my 594 00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:16.280 feet into the bucker in Eric ukers, so I don't. I just set 595 00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:21.280 up normal. But the ball ford s tends to open the club base a 596 00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:23.360 little bit and I catch the ball on the upsot. It's kind of like 597 00:41:23.400 --> 00:41:27.599 what I do out of a fairway line when I'm trying to hit a super 598 00:41:27.679 --> 00:41:30.920 high shot. You look at like Rory matt Roy hitting towering two irons and 599 00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:36.039 to agree he's actually hitting up. He's not. He does not have a 600 00:41:36.119 --> 00:41:40.199 downward attacking. So what I do is I have like a very shallow one 601 00:41:40.199 --> 00:41:44.880 to two degree upward attacking. My trapman the boxer would show that I was 602 00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:47.400 that I was catching the ball on the upslore. So the endal is the 603 00:41:47.519 --> 00:41:52.760 I lick up ball. The club ped will be traveling up through impact, 604 00:41:53.039 --> 00:42:00.159 so shallower higher ball flight ball and landstoftly. I agree that's how play my 605 00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:05.760 favorite bunker shots. Mm hm. And you said they have the ball more 606 00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:09.320 forward in your stands. Are you talking about like driver forward in your stance 607 00:42:09.599 --> 00:42:15.199 or forward where you normally lay your redulate shots? Just be different for everybody 608 00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:19.840 to hang out where you're where you're lows. So I would say, whatever 609 00:42:19.880 --> 00:42:22.760 you do in the fairwight and move the ball a ball a few more forward 610 00:42:22.800 --> 00:42:28.480 than that in your stands, keep that handle, FID. Remember handle forward 611 00:42:28.519 --> 00:42:32.320 is a steep bank. Handle back is a shallowing. You're trying to hit 612 00:42:32.440 --> 00:42:37.440 something really low, put the handle forward and delopping it down into the ground 613 00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:39.440 and just hit a little bullet like under a tree. We're trying to the 614 00:42:39.440 --> 00:42:46.800 opposite of that. Your fairy buck mm hmmm. Is the I have to 615 00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:51.239 assume this, but I'm going to ask anyway, because whenever I assume anything 616 00:42:51.280 --> 00:42:57.800 on the on golfight, I'm way off. Yeah. Right. Is the 617 00:42:57.840 --> 00:43:02.159 sand generally the same sand in fairway bunkers as it is in green side bunkers? 618 00:43:04.119 --> 00:43:07.480 I think do they maintain it the same way? Is it the fluffiness 619 00:43:07.480 --> 00:43:09.360 and switch sand in the green and the fairy bumpers as they do with the 620 00:43:09.360 --> 00:43:14.639 green side bumpers not as much. Not as much. I've found that, 621 00:43:14.760 --> 00:43:19.599 like most arry bumpers are they but it's always a case. I mean, 622 00:43:19.639 --> 00:43:22.480 if if you end up with the with kind of this soft loose sand in 623 00:43:22.599 --> 00:43:27.000 a fairy bumper, it's a tough shot. It's a really tough shot. 624 00:43:27.039 --> 00:43:30.519 But if you have wise the buckers, it's paneling being in a waste area 625 00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:32.480 or something. It's just it's almost like if I was going to hit a 626 00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:36.599 ball off a cart, you know, I wouldn't want to be hitting down 627 00:43:36.599 --> 00:43:42.239 into the car. I catch that they at worst at the bottom hopefully is 628 00:43:42.239 --> 00:43:47.440 out a scent. So what is the the most common myths that you come 629 00:43:47.480 --> 00:43:53.199 across from amateur golfers on how they approach bunker play. I think I think 630 00:43:53.239 --> 00:43:55.559 we've kind of covered them. I think the big thing is they think they 631 00:43:55.639 --> 00:43:59.880 got to get way behind all I'm talking about green side buckers. They think 632 00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:04.159 behind the ball. It's like, yeah, the two points behind the ball, 633 00:44:04.239 --> 00:44:06.239 that's howth the look. That would be the first one. The other 634 00:44:06.280 --> 00:44:09.400 one is said you have to cut across your bombers. Those things just make 635 00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:15.440 the horrible book. I mean it's like the other thing is I think I 636 00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:17.960 don't know if it's a myth, but I see this a lot just in 637 00:44:19.039 --> 00:44:23.480 teaching bunker where people think they have to go down and get Now if you 638 00:44:23.519 --> 00:44:27.440 actually think about it, like they feel like their body has to go down 639 00:44:27.440 --> 00:44:30.840 and get the ball or dig it out, and what ends up happening when 640 00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:35.760 you do that if you think about it and say you exaggerate, like you 641 00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:37.800 take it up to the top and then you start lowering your by well the 642 00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:42.719 sand, You're going to hit the sand way early because get you close to 643 00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:46.320 the ground. And I see that as a big I would say fifty percent 644 00:44:46.360 --> 00:44:50.639 of the people that I teach bumker shots are lowering it the tip eight. 645 00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:53.719 The people who are struggling at the book and the people who are really good 646 00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:58.880 at the bunker, they're actually pushing up out of the ground as their arms 647 00:44:58.920 --> 00:45:02.519 are swinging down. You're looking at me like like you just had an epiphany. 648 00:45:04.159 --> 00:45:07.320 Yeah, that was that was huge. So so if you if you 649 00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:09.679 did this exercise, if you took a ball in your trail ant so it's 650 00:45:09.800 --> 00:45:14.679 right handecop, you're just gett your right hand and you felt like you were 651 00:45:14.679 --> 00:45:20.159 going to throw the ball at the ball that's in the bucker as hard as 652 00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:22.960 you could, like you were trying to bounce it off the up the bunker. 653 00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:27.599 You would notice that your body would actually be pushing up as your arm 654 00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:30.480 was throwing the ball down. It's like you're spiking the put you know which, 655 00:45:30.599 --> 00:45:34.960 up out of the ground as you're throwing a ball down. And if 656 00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:38.119 you have that, you have that kind of feel of downward arm action, 657 00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:45.280 upward body action. It's a custom bunker. M Now, I've seen people 658 00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:52.159 take their putters into green side bunkers. Oh yeah, is that? Oh 659 00:45:52.239 --> 00:45:53.360 yeah? Is that a good? I mean, what is that called the 660 00:45:53.440 --> 00:45:59.559 Texas wedge? Well, it's it unless there's no lip on the bunker's terrible. 661 00:45:59.599 --> 00:46:05.320 Like yeah, But my dad used to play his awesome on Saturdays. 662 00:46:05.360 --> 00:46:07.559 The guy could not did a bucker shot go out of the bucker. He 663 00:46:07.559 --> 00:46:09.760 just grabbed his putter whack it as far as he could, hope for the 664 00:46:09.760 --> 00:46:13.599 best. And so you know, one out of every fifty. I used 665 00:46:13.599 --> 00:46:15.320 to caddy for my dad. So I watched this guy's name was Rudy. 666 00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:20.840 He did every side and begin the bucker. My dad was going to win 667 00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:24.800 the all pretty guarantee, unless the some some lucky thing if anybody could get 668 00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:29.519 a good putter out of us out of a bucker, it was it was 669 00:46:29.599 --> 00:46:34.280 Rudy. But there was one time I think I saw Sevy get out a 670 00:46:34.320 --> 00:46:37.039 really weird situation the bucker with the putter, But I don't even think he 671 00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:39.079 used the face of the fire. I think he used to pull out the 672 00:46:39.079 --> 00:46:42.719 putter. I can't remember. I wish I had a video of that. 673 00:46:42.840 --> 00:46:47.000 But that's just an use of some major creativity, which was he was from 674 00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:52.559 his pores as everybody that was sticking by Asteros's easy amazing ability to hit short 675 00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:57.840 game shots. So I think there was no way he could hit a regular 676 00:46:57.880 --> 00:47:00.039 bucker shot in the situation, so he somehow able to fighter app there. 677 00:47:00.119 --> 00:47:05.400 But I would say in general, it's a bad idea. What was the 678 00:47:05.440 --> 00:47:09.559 last time he so touring pros putter out of the fun It seems you don't 679 00:47:09.559 --> 00:47:12.920 know how to do it. So again it goes back to just you know, 680 00:47:13.039 --> 00:47:17.159 having the knowledge. But I'd say that if if you can have proper 681 00:47:17.159 --> 00:47:21.119 information, you know, that's what we're trying to do as coaches. It's 682 00:47:21.159 --> 00:47:23.639 like we need to arm you with the proper information and then coach you through 683 00:47:23.679 --> 00:47:28.800 this. So bumker is not going to be something that you know keeps you 684 00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:30.000 up at that. It's like, Oh, it's an opportunity for me to 685 00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:37.159 have some fun in and I understand how to do it, and whenever somebody 686 00:47:37.159 --> 00:47:39.159 cust me for bucker lesson, I'm like, I'm about to make this person 687 00:47:39.199 --> 00:47:44.480 the happiest person of the world. Because they usually come in trauma the amount 688 00:47:44.480 --> 00:47:46.159 of failure that they are. I'm like, I'm going to be a hero 689 00:47:46.760 --> 00:47:51.760 in about three minutes here. It's so I mean, I guess it's selfish 690 00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:53.280 on my part, but it's like I feel this gratification, like, oh, 691 00:47:53.280 --> 00:47:57.719 you want to do budcker cool where I when I was a rookie teacher, 692 00:47:57.719 --> 00:48:00.000 I'm like, the bucker up. I don't know if I can. 693 00:48:00.760 --> 00:48:05.039 That's what I'm thinking. I was thinking in my head because because the information 694 00:48:05.119 --> 00:48:08.159 of how to do it was so wrong, Uh, and now we know 695 00:48:08.320 --> 00:48:10.639 we don't how to do it. You're not going to see I'm not going 696 00:48:10.679 --> 00:48:15.800 to see that all style bunker shot. Very very few players at the highest 697 00:48:15.840 --> 00:48:17.599 level are doing a deal. I'll do it the new one. You can 698 00:48:17.639 --> 00:48:23.599 create Steve Bangles into the golf bar clash much simpler, more effective ways to 699 00:48:23.639 --> 00:48:30.280 help create the proper impact and at the proper distance, so the trauma goes 700 00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:31.719 away really quickly everyly, you know, at the end of the lesson, 701 00:48:31.840 --> 00:48:37.000 like we're two minutes in the less like, well, wow, that's so 702 00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:40.320 much easier than what I was doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Well 703 00:48:40.360 --> 00:48:46.760 it's just one more instance of you know, everybody wants consistency, but wait 704 00:48:46.800 --> 00:48:52.159 a minute, there's no two golf shots alike. So can you be consistent? 705 00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:57.280 Think you're going to be consistent if you treat every shot the same and 706 00:48:57.400 --> 00:49:01.960 you have different situations. It's gat ring that information before you step into the 707 00:49:01.960 --> 00:49:08.039 bunker and assessing all the different variables that are there before you try to have 708 00:49:08.079 --> 00:49:13.199 your normal swing. It's it's not going to get you anywhere. So I 709 00:49:13.239 --> 00:49:16.280 know you you probably talked to the THEGIT fifty four ladies piet Lane. They're 710 00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:20.599 fantastic, right, and so they're amazing. It's been a long time and 711 00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:22.960 I've been trying for years to get them back on and there. They travel 712 00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:28.239 a lot and they're they're very busy. Yeah right, good. But one 713 00:49:28.280 --> 00:49:30.719 of the things they always like to say is like, you don't want to 714 00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:34.159 become a master of consistency. You want to become a master of variability, 715 00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:38.000 right, because every situation is variable. Right, So so I agree with 716 00:49:38.039 --> 00:49:43.519 that. And the thing is, it's interesting they were they were out here 717 00:49:43.559 --> 00:49:47.440 one time and they asked a little lot player on the men's team, you 718 00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:54.360 know what what what gives you confidence? And his answer was preparation And I 719 00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:58.000 thought that was a great answer. And there's a lot of things to give 720 00:49:58.000 --> 00:50:01.920 me confidence. Preparation is definitely. So we go back to what we talked 721 00:50:01.960 --> 00:50:07.079 about earlier. How are you preparing for being a master of variability? Are 722 00:50:07.119 --> 00:50:08.679 you giving yourself the same shot over and over and over again and you're practicing 723 00:50:08.719 --> 00:50:13.480 your bunker shots? Or are you throwing your balls in random places? To 724 00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:17.239 say? How am I going to figure out this puzzle? So when I 725 00:50:17.280 --> 00:50:21.960 give a bunker lesson, obviously do the analysis of what's what's going on? 726 00:50:22.119 --> 00:50:23.760 Help, you know, give them the diagnosis if you will, help them 727 00:50:23.920 --> 00:50:28.760 understand what they should be doing. And then the second part of the bunker 728 00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:30.719 lesson, after they figured out how they did a bunker shot, is okay, 729 00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:34.880 Well, now let's let's do different lives. Let's talk about different lives. 730 00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:37.760 So usually I'll give a bunker lesson. The'll be like half hour and 731 00:50:37.880 --> 00:50:40.920 the first part we'll get them out of there, you know, out of 732 00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:45.079 the bottom of the well where they feel like there's no oh, and then 733 00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:46.920 they're like, okay, there's hope. Now let's talk about the variability, 734 00:50:46.960 --> 00:50:51.039 because yeah, you've just had five good bunker shots. You think you got 735 00:50:51.039 --> 00:50:54.400 it. Okay, let's let's let's make it harder, right, just like 736 00:50:54.440 --> 00:51:00.039 I was saying earlier, to make your practice harder than a gain. Yeah. 737 00:51:00.360 --> 00:51:04.519 Yeah, that's what I always loved about talking with Rick Sessenhaus about his 738 00:51:04.599 --> 00:51:07.119 work with Colin Moricow as a kid. It would be situational golf. It's 739 00:51:07.159 --> 00:51:09.239 like, Okay, I'm going to put a ball. I'm gonna put three 740 00:51:09.239 --> 00:51:13.840 balls here. You give me three different shots to do to get you know 741 00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:15.639 where you want to be. Don't just hit the same shot three times. 742 00:51:15.679 --> 00:51:20.239 I want to see three different shots. Yeah. I love it, love 743 00:51:20.320 --> 00:51:22.760 that stuff and love talking to you too. Man. This has been great. 744 00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:27.559 Thank you so much. Pleasured. Look forward to the next lot. 745 00:51:27.719 --> 00:51:34.039 All right, we'll do it absolutely. I need to give you an update 746 00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:39.079 to our Royal adventure to Northern Ireland, and the deadline to register is just 747 00:51:39.320 --> 00:51:44.880 days away on May first, and we still have space available. And we 748 00:51:44.960 --> 00:51:49.239 knew all along that we were giving you very short notice when we announced this, 749 00:51:49.719 --> 00:51:52.800 and if we couldn't fill the spaces, this trip would be postponed either 750 00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:58.960 twenty twenty five or twenty twenty six. So if you are at all thinking 751 00:51:59.000 --> 00:52:02.039 about it and I need to discuss, just write to me directly. I 752 00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:07.079 really want the opportunity to travel and play with you, So here's some additional 753 00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:13.840 time to fit us into your travel schedule and discuss our post summer opportunity, 754 00:52:14.360 --> 00:52:20.039 because in September of this year, we're scheduling a different golf trip that includes 755 00:52:20.440 --> 00:52:24.920 a tour adventure to Portugal, definitely a place that's been on Joanne's in my 756 00:52:25.000 --> 00:52:30.559 bucket list for a long time. This trip will be nine days with three 757 00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:36.199 rounds of golf and a lot more sightseeing since Johanne doesn't play those three days. 758 00:52:36.320 --> 00:52:39.519 While we'll be on the course, the non golfers will be taking advantage 759 00:52:39.559 --> 00:52:45.639 of spas, shopping and additional sightseeing. I'll be discussing this more in the 760 00:52:45.639 --> 00:52:50.519 coming episodes, but remember this isn't the last of our travels together, as 761 00:52:50.559 --> 00:52:55.360 we've got goals for incredible golf adventures for the next few years. And as 762 00:52:55.400 --> 00:53:00.039 we discuss the golf bucket lists, how about Australia. Well, that's where 763 00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:06.639 this week's Golf Smarter Ambassador, Peter Blackmore, plays at the Melbourne Airport Golf 764 00:53:06.679 --> 00:53:09.599 Club. What made it so easy for Peter to join our list of ambassadors 765 00:53:09.880 --> 00:53:15.159 to open an episode of where he's from and where he plays is that, 766 00:53:15.280 --> 00:53:20.519 instead of calling our toll free line, Peter recorded the intro directly on his 767 00:53:20.639 --> 00:53:24.440 phone and send us the file easy squeezy. If you'd like to choose from 768 00:53:24.480 --> 00:53:30.519 three great gifts and introduce an upcoming episode, just write to me golf Smarter 769 00:53:30.639 --> 00:53:35.400 Podcast at gmail dot com and I'll write back with some simple instructions of what 770 00:53:35.559 --> 00:53:38.519 to do and what to say. 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