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Bunker shots can be complicated in the best conditions – and this is also true for the best players in the world. In PGA Tour last season, the sand leader saves percentage (Carl Yuan) rose from the bunker only 69 percent of the time, and the average tour was just below 55 percent. If the best players in the world are saving money in such a rare clip, you can only Imagine how many difficulties Weekend fighters have.
Pour a lucrative lie in the mix and you have a disaster recipe. You can forget to hope to save PAR. Simply taking OUTSIDE of the bunker should be considered a victory.
When it comes to difficult lies in the sand, nothing is harder than a ball that is locked. But while fried lie It can be staggering, there are strategies you can use to make things a little easier.
Instructor Kelan McDonagh explains such a technique in the video below.
A unique method for bunker shots fried with eggs
Typically when you find yourself with a fried egg lie, you are instructed to catch the club and hit the ball down as much as you can. However, McDonagh describes a different technique – and involves trying to hit the ball with socks.
McDonagh says that for your configuration, you need to get your normal attitude and open the club like you for a normal bunker stroke. But instead of trying to hit the ball a few inches, he says you should try to hit the sand just behind the ball with the bottom of the sock.
“One way I have learned as a child and this is stuck with me since then is what is called ‘hammer and nail technique’,” says McDonagh. “We try to hit the sand, where Hosel meets the club.”
When you place, hang the bottom of the sock directly above the ball. Then, when you make your swing, imagine by hitting a nail in the sand directly behind the ball.
“It has to make the ball to pop straight,” says McDonagh.
You may want to avoid the sock at all costs in other cases on the course, but when you find yourself with a fried egg, it’s not a bad strategy.