Fried eggs are a great way to start your day – especially when paired with toast – but it’s a different story in the golf course. These complicated bunker shots have a way to remove the wind from your cruises before trying to hit them, and with the wrong approach, they can break the hole and stare at any moment you have built throughout your round.
Fortunately, with some bases, you can learn to get rid of the stretches connected at a single pace. Use the five keys below from Parker McLachlin, a Golf teacher to seeTo easily navigate these Greenside bunker shots-and even give yourself a chance to make a up and down.
Open the club
within The first part of the three -piece series of McLachlin In the bunker -bound stretches, he explains that most amateurs settled for disappointment from the beginning because they turn to the ball with a closed club. The reason this makes you in trouble is that the lie is already promoting a lower ball flight.
“This ball wants to come out low and fast because it’s sitting an inch under the surface,” he says.
Instead, you want to open the Clubface to oppose the lie. Opening the face, McLachlin says, will allow us to create more height and softness through purpose.
Stay closer to the ball
In a typical bunker stroke, McLachlin says he likes to put his feet away from the ball because it encourages it to make a rounded and shallow plane. However, for a bunker hook connected, you need a more vertical swinging plane to get under the ball. To encourage a rapid angle of attack, McLachlin says to stay closer to the ball.
“I want to get very close to this. Almost unpleasant nearby,” he says.
Compared to his standard configuration of the Greenside bunker, McLachlin says he prefers to move four to five inch closer to the ball.
“I want to be able to offer an angle of attack that is very steep in this ball so they can sink under this ball which is sitting under the surface of the sand,” he says.
Narrow your attitude
Amateurs often take a wider stay in the bunker to create a sustainable base for their swinging, but McLachlin says that for bunker plug stretches, you will actually want a narrower attitude.
“This ball is an inch under the surface of the sand, so I have to build a steep angle of the attack to be able to pick under it and almost create my sand under the ball,” he says.
Putting your legs closer is a great way to encourage a faster angle of attack without changing your mechanics.
Remember: hang and hands
within Part 3 of the McLachlin’s Bunker Bunker CourseHe explains that taking a narrow attitude not only encourages a faster angle of attack, but even less body movements throughout the shake, which is exactly what you need to execute this blow successfully.
“This will be a very hingey and useful pace,” he says. “Not a lot of torsion of the cake at all.”
In the clip, McLachlin demonstrates what your back should look like. Note that when he turns the club again, it depends quickly on the wrists and stops slightly above the hip height. This shortened spine prevents it from making any unnecessary body movement and create a narrower spine, which encourages a faster angle of the attack on the ball.
Minimal follows through
The last keyelle you need to know to hit a fried egg lie is to shorten your finish.
“I never want to see, out of a locking lie, this move here,” McLachlin says as he demonstrates a standard omission and ends with sand.
Instead, he says to use the most vertical angle of attack you have created to your advantage and allow the club to stop naturally immediately after the impact – almost like a piece and run.
“Use the slope and club open to help get this ball up and out,” he says, “you don’t have to muscle it from here.”
Which brings another critical key McLachlin briefly touches: Do not try to beat the sand.
McLachlin says you check your club axis to turn into a neutral impact position. Maintaining a neutral club axis through influence ensures that all the configuration adjustments you have just made are working with you, not against you.
If you are doing it properly, the result should be a low blow, the run that releases almost like a collision and jogging. And, with a little practice, you can master this intricate stroke.
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