A buried bunker trick to escape the sand

Fried eggs… good for breakfast but bad for your score card. You know the deal: your ball is buried in bunker, surrounded by a sand ridge. Your first thought may be to add as much attic as you can to raise the ball. Trust me and millions of others – it rarely works.

In this situation, you need more a sharp action, and to get that spoon you really need to close the club to the address. I mean to really close it (as shown in the middle photo below). Turn your toe into many. It may sound counterintors for what you are trying to accomplish, but when your club enters the sand, the club will open naturally (photograph an ice cream) and gives you the attic you need to get the ball up and out.

Returning to the toe should tell you that this is everything, but the purpose of your high garden sand. With a fried egg, you need to dig – and dig deep. In fact, you have to think about hitting sand so much that you are barely able to make a complete and complete conclusion. The more you feel the main edge of your wedge looking for sand, the better.

Again, the club will open as a natural reaction to enter the sand. The elevator will be there. Shake tightly, with a lot of push. Think I don’t skim. Anything else can mean hitting another blow from the same bunker.

Derek Swoboda is the Director of Instruction at John’s Island Club in Vero Beach, Fla.