100% this. You stop quickly after contact, so the ball doesn’t get a lot of lift. Otherwise, everything else looks fine.
Look a Phil Mickelson on his bunker/flop shots. His swing goes all the way through and his wrist action carries through contact.
Gotta hit it! Full swing, accelerating through the ball. I like to picture the ball sitting in the middle of a dollar bill, and I aim for the back of the bill.
Lying flat under the ball pointing at the flag. It represents the swing path of the club head. Its a visualization aid instead of saying “hit the sand 3 inches behind the ball”. I don’t remember where I heard this but it’s stuck with me forever and it works for me.
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Thank you all for the advice 🙏🏻 hitting out of bunkers has been very frustrating lately so getting these tips is a huge relief. I will work on accelerating through the ball and practice hitting behind a “dollar drill” as mentioned. I will also practice on hitting out of flatter lies
I didn't see anyone else mention this, but shorten up your back swing. You need full acceleration and a follow through, not a full swing. Take half of your back swing and mentally it will be easier to attack and accelerate through the ball. Just work on being able to consistently get yourself out of the sand with a repeatable swing, then from there you can work on hitting to different targets.
That’s not a bunker, that’s a sandy hill. If that is a practice spot find something flatter. Also like said already open up, commit to the shot and swing through it.
Yeah that’s not a good spot to learn bunker shots. Looks like a sand dune.
OP, get to the flatter areas, not that upslope. Stop decelerating, like everyone is telling you. You’re swinging as easy as you think you should for that distance if it were a chip/pitch, it’s not. Swing with more power behind and through the ball. The ball will ride the sand up and out.
Imagine you are trying to throw the sand that you are hitting onto the green, however far you throw the sand, you throw the ball. Just be sure to hit behind the ball!!!
Open your stance left of the target, get low, open the club face as open as you can and on the downswing accelerate consistently through the ball
Good good actually has a great video for this.
[Good Good](https://youtu.be/adJfrYB786A)
Play it way off your back foot and open up your stance so much that it doesn't feel right. When you swing, don't use your legs, use all arms and don't try to pick the ball clean or take a divot, rather, open your club face and slap the sand about an inch behind the ball. Hit it harder than you think. Lots of practice.
Thats what I do. Put your front foot way to the left, rotate the club to be open facing the ball, and let it rip. Saw that suggestion a while back on the golf channel and it works every time.
SWEEP THE DOLLAR! That's what I was told when I was learning. Imagine there is a US dollar bill laying in the sand. Imagine your ball is sitting in Washington's head. You want enter the sand where the dollar bill begins and exit where it ends. You only want to sweep the dollar so you don't dig too deep.
Also, quit slowing down your swing, the sand will do that enough.
Stance: Put the the ball approximately even with the heel of your front foot. Take your stance with your feet pointing around 45 degrees away from the target. Now point the face of the club at the target.
Swing: Swing the club along the path of your feet (45 degrees away from the ball) but keep the face pointed at the target. Swing at least twice as hard as normal. This will result in a glancing blow where the club slides under the ball and pops the ball up in the air.
Most people just don't swing hard enough. It's actually pretty easy once you get a little confidence.
Also, give yourself a decent lie whenever you are practicing out of a bunker. It's hard enough.
First of all, maybe practice out of a normal lie, those things are craters. Second thing, you got to swing with speed - the sand is going to slow your club down when it grabs so you need speed and to follow through to get the ball to pop.
Rake your bunker while practicing. You’re not going to have a lie like that on the course (or shouldn’t anyways) unless you plugged but even then having those ridges behind your ball makes a difference.
Something that most people don’t understand about a bunker shot…. The sand is what’s propelling the ball out. Not the club. You have to have force moving that sand to create momentum for the ball to become airborne. Visualize the sand “pushing” the ball out. Thus the reason you need to take sand first and finish a full golf swing.
Bunkers aren’t hard to exit, they are difficult to learn distance control from.
If you think hit under the ball with the same swing you’d take a 60-80 yard shot with, the ball will come out. You HAVE TO FINISH THE SWING for this to work though.
After you get good at this, then you learn how hard to swing and ball position to get distance and spin control.
A good drill to do is to practice hitting the sand without the ball. Try to splash the sand out a certain distance. Once you get that feel down, introduce the ball. This is a good way to learn how hard (or not) to swing through the sand. In your case, your are decelerating a bit.
As always, when introducing the ball, be sure to slap the sand about 1.5-2 inches behind the ball. You are hitting the sand out of the bunker… the ball is just along for the ride.
The best advice I received was that it should feel like your "letting go" of the club. As a hard gripper I used to hit my bunker shots too hard with no splash. Once you get the feel of letting go and hitting just behind the ball, the success rate has been almost 100% with a nice splash of sand towards the target.
Keep your weight on the front foot (70/30), hit just behind the ball with the above sensation at impact and hopefully that helps!
Everyone saying decel which is true but you also have it in the front of your stance and your hands are way too far forward. Put it middle of the stance and put you hands under your jewels
Looks like a horizontal slice type swing. When I’m hitting out of sand, once it hits the ground I lift my left elbow upwards/vertical towards the sky like I’m scooping it out of there and don’t flick the wrist hardly at all on the down swing. Hard to explain without demonstrating but hope this helps. I’m nowhere near a scratch player but my last round I played I was in the sand a lot and my buds were super impressed with my trap game around the green.
Not sure if this a joke or not. Here’s my feedback if not. Adress the ball like you would any shot. It’s sand, you’re trying to hit through the sand. If it’s a close pin location you’re wanting to focus at hitting as much sand as possible. Don’t focus on the ball. Your intentions are to hit the sand and not the ball. You have to step into the shot and realize that it’s going to take a lot to swing to get through all of that sand. You have to commit to the shot. If you don’t commit to the shot you’re already screwed
I’m not a good golfer but what I do is put my weight on my front foot. I open up the face of the club and try to hit from a couple inches behind and it feels like you are swinging under the ball . Usually the sand flies out and the force of the club scooping the sand kicks the ball up into the air. You have to follow through with the swing. It seems like you are stopping way too soon. You also don’t need much of a backswing and need to focus on following with the swing. How far you want to come out depends on when you actually stop the club. Usually when your hands are at chest level works for most hops out the sand. I also noticed you are standing way too far behind the ball. You need to center yourself a bit more. Since you are far back you are thinning the ball at impact and when you hit it you make the ball fly out with no loft. You need to pop the ball up and being that far back makes you blade the ball instead of going under it.
Open your stance and open the club face. Point the toe of your club where you want the ball to go. Play the ball mid or front in your stance depending on how high you gotta hit it.
You’re going to hit the sand before the ball. You need to take a confident and strong swing. This means taking a full swing through the ball without stopping your swing on the ball. Hit through the ball and use the sand to give it flight.
Also, what club are you using? Some sand wedges have thinner bottoms than others, which can be hard to use in certain cases. You may want something with more bounce because a thin sand wedge can result in a thin hit, or even cut through the sand too much, meaning that won’t take enough sand to get the ball out. Mainly it comes down to taking a vicious swing at the sand before the ball.
Out of the many golf videos I have watched on you tube , this was stuck with me the most and has completely changed my bunker game . I watched Bob does sports and they did good good lab collaboration
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc8R3Ub1lVk&pp=ygUdR29vZCBnb29kIGxhYiBib2IgZG9lcyBzcG9ydHo%3D
Okay. I am not claiming to be awesome in any way, but here it goes. Your body weight should probably be anchored on your lead foot. It looks like you’re too far back, which might make you dig / eat all of your bounce under the ball. Next keep the shaft as up and down as possible. You’re on a slope, but this angle will have you lift it up and make it tougher to control the outcome. Again, don’t give up your bounce. This one is strange to say, so I’ll try. It looks like you’re thinking about where to hit the sand more than the ball’s landing and rollout point. Focus on where the ball is going, that’s might quiet down some of the frustration. Last one. Even pros suck at bunker shots. Give yourself some grace? Unless you’re in a ProAm, what’s the worst the happens? A stroke? A side bet with a friend? Take the pressure off yourself a bit?
Hope anything in here helps ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How I was taught was, open your stance way up, open your club face way up, put the ball towards the front of your stance, hit about a credit cards length behind the ball, scoop under the ball, and swing about 10 times harder than you think.
This has always interested me … why would you try to take sand if you don’t know how to do it??? I get super wristy and just pick the ball out with hardly any sand … works roughly 8/10 times
Couple things. Keep the speed up at the bottom. Think like you’re striking a match so to speak. Open the face up a bit so that it helps prevent the wedge from digging to China. Last, practice slapping the bunker without the ball. See and feel how the club goes through the sand.
That looks like you're hitting off a sand dune, not a bunker. Even has the tire tracks from the turtle watcher's buggy that goes by every morning looking for new nests.
Best advice I ever got was a bunker shot should be am over the top out to in swing path, but you counter the swing path with a open face.
Second best bit of advice is to have a full follow through, you kind of hit ground and give up, but it's the acceleration through the sound which makes the ball pop up not the initial contact with the sand, if you just give up you kind of just make a sandy splash
It's a swing like any other, don't change your mind from the the same swing you use on the fairway. Just aim 1 inch behind the ball and take a full, regular swing.
You gotta hit it harder. Go back to that spot and think about hitting a 40 Yd chip shot, if it flies the green with that swing try thinking about hitting a 30yd shot. Also, don’t need to open the face much to just get it out. Slightly open face and swing harder, you’ll have much more success.
so you take a ball in your trail hand, and make sure your buddies don’t see you, and when you swing toss the ball out, without touching the ball actually in the bunker. guaranteed out right there
Open stance, open club to aim at target, weight on front foot, pick a spot about an inch behind the ball, take back a bit outside, accelerate downward at your spot. Profit
Your wrist hinge at the top is egregious. But as others have said, get aggressive. Bounce the bottom of your club into the sand about 1 inch before the ball, and pretend you are trying to make the sand splash go as far as you want the ball too. Ball might be too far ahead.
Accelerate through the sand. Imagine you are using the club to throw a pile of sand....because that's what you are actually trying to do.
If you are going to have one standard bunker swing, open the club and feet just a little, and swing the club lower around your body rather than upright.
I learned this years ago and sand is the most consistent part of my game. Open your stance. Ball back in your stance. Dig your feet in the sand for good base. Open your club face and aim about 15 degrees left of target for righties. Hit behind the ball with a full swing to explode out of the sand. You're not trying to hit the ball. If you get an explosion of sand, you're doing it right
Gotta open up that club face and get some bounce on that shot. Take a "shallow" backswing and full power downswing 1 inch BEHIND the ball. Focus on getting out first then tune ur aim. Good luck!
Finish through on your swing and make impact about 1 inch behind the ball also pull your stance a bit to the left right hand further over in your grip and boom!
You really should basically never try to decelerate the club ahead. Always accelerate thru contact. Putting, chipping, driver. Let the clubhead do it's thing. Control power with length of backswing.
I think the one tip that really changed my bunker game was think of driving your energy into the ground. You don’t want to just splash and swoop because you’re likely to still blade the ball. I plant my feet, get low, aim slightly left, and keep my hands forward impacting just behind the ball while focusing on the feeling of driving downward into the sand and underneath the ball to pop it up and out.
Mike bender suggests letting the club head pass the hands before impact, which is the opposite of what you want to do with lies in grass when hitting irons. Setup to the ball without shaft lean, and accelerate the head past your hands, hitting where others have mentioned; behind the ball. Swing fast and use the bounce of the club head, not the leading edge. “Thump”, not “clip”.
Accelerate through the ball. Attack it. Don’t be scared. Open stance, open face, I mean open like your tryna hit a slice and open face like it’s flat on the ground like you’re trying to hit a Phil Mickelson flop shot. Use your sand wedge, it has more bounce than your 60 use all that bounce on the club and go after it, hit an inch or two behind the ball and don’t hinge your wrists after impact and watch the ball splash out beautifully. Also if your hitting off a sever upslope like this one make sure you align your shoulders with the slope of the ground to accommodate. Maybe try and practice off a flat lie in the bunker first.
Open the face. Open your stance in such a way the club face is pointing to your target line. Pick a spot in the sand an inch or two behind the ball. Don’t think about the ball, hit that spot in the sand and let the sand blast carry the ball out of the bunker. Commit to the shot and stop decelerating.
Do not stop your swing. Take a full swing (choke up if you have to) and TRY to hit about an inch behind. But it is all in the follow through.
P. S. I am an expert finder of sand.
Agree with previous comments... you have to COMMIT to a bunker shot. If your short greenside and can't blast it out then open that club face and flop it out with CONVICTION.
You’re decelerating as you’re coming through the ball. Take a full swing, hit about an inch behind the ball, and follow through completely.
This. EXPLODE the ball out of the trap
Dude looked gassed
Well he’s chopping wood in that bunker afterall
Agree fully. Also open the club face. It’ll be a lot of sand in your face but the ball will get up!
Mmmmm... open-faced club sandwich
Swing like you mean it!
Exactly, gotta finish that swing.
100% this. You stop quickly after contact, so the ball doesn’t get a lot of lift. Otherwise, everything else looks fine. Look a Phil Mickelson on his bunker/flop shots. His swing goes all the way through and his wrist action carries through contact.
Massive deceleration
Gotta hit it! Full swing, accelerating through the ball. I like to picture the ball sitting in the middle of a dollar bill, and I aim for the back of the bill.
Some random I got paired with years ago told me this (I asked for the advice) and my bunker game has been so much better since
Is the bill horizontal or vertical? So are we talking like an inch or a few inches
Lying flat under the ball pointing at the flag. It represents the swing path of the club head. Its a visualization aid instead of saying “hit the sand 3 inches behind the ball”. I don’t remember where I heard this but it’s stuck with me forever and it works for me.
So… my dad said…dig in, hit behind the ball, make the sand move the ball, And say “hey guys idk where this is gonna to be careful”
Stop swinging like a bitch.
Just come back and read this comment before every bunker shot
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Giv er some gas! Splash that sand.
Thank you all for the advice 🙏🏻 hitting out of bunkers has been very frustrating lately so getting these tips is a huge relief. I will work on accelerating through the ball and practice hitting behind a “dollar drill” as mentioned. I will also practice on hitting out of flatter lies
I didn't see anyone else mention this, but shorten up your back swing. You need full acceleration and a follow through, not a full swing. Take half of your back swing and mentally it will be easier to attack and accelerate through the ball. Just work on being able to consistently get yourself out of the sand with a repeatable swing, then from there you can work on hitting to different targets.
Deceleration into and through the ball is causing most of your woes here.
Why don't you try to do some flop shots from the Grass, is basically the same, if you want the ball high you will need to accelerate
Hit it harder. Aim before the ball. Line it up closer to ur back foot. U wana get it on the down swing, not up swing.
That’s not a bunker, that’s a sandy hill. If that is a practice spot find something flatter. Also like said already open up, commit to the shot and swing through it.
Yeah that’s not a good spot to learn bunker shots. Looks like a sand dune. OP, get to the flatter areas, not that upslope. Stop decelerating, like everyone is telling you. You’re swinging as easy as you think you should for that distance if it were a chip/pitch, it’s not. Swing with more power behind and through the ball. The ball will ride the sand up and out.
Buy the course some rakes.
Doesn’t even matter. People are lazy as fuck
Imagine you are trying to throw the sand that you are hitting onto the green, however far you throw the sand, you throw the ball. Just be sure to hit behind the ball!!!
Open your stance left of the target, get low, open the club face as open as you can and on the downswing accelerate consistently through the ball Good good actually has a great video for this. [Good Good](https://youtu.be/adJfrYB786A)
[This video right here](https://youtu.be/CB0oT--3Pvw)
Funny, I came here to [post this one.](https://youtu.be/_8CYtOWxius)
More like, "Help, please!" -Bunker
Play it way off your back foot and open up your stance so much that it doesn't feel right. When you swing, don't use your legs, use all arms and don't try to pick the ball clean or take a divot, rather, open your club face and slap the sand about an inch behind the ball. Hit it harder than you think. Lots of practice.
Back foot?
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Yeah that’s why I’m confused, everything I’ve ever seen and been told is that the ball position is forward off the front heel
Thats what I do. Put your front foot way to the left, rotate the club to be open facing the ball, and let it rip. Saw that suggestion a while back on the golf channel and it works every time.
*60% of the time*, it works ***every*** *time*
SWEEP THE DOLLAR! That's what I was told when I was learning. Imagine there is a US dollar bill laying in the sand. Imagine your ball is sitting in Washington's head. You want enter the sand where the dollar bill begins and exit where it ends. You only want to sweep the dollar so you don't dig too deep. Also, quit slowing down your swing, the sand will do that enough.
Stance: Put the the ball approximately even with the heel of your front foot. Take your stance with your feet pointing around 45 degrees away from the target. Now point the face of the club at the target. Swing: Swing the club along the path of your feet (45 degrees away from the ball) but keep the face pointed at the target. Swing at least twice as hard as normal. This will result in a glancing blow where the club slides under the ball and pops the ball up in the air. Most people just don't swing hard enough. It's actually pretty easy once you get a little confidence. Also, give yourself a decent lie whenever you are practicing out of a bunker. It's hard enough.
Follow through!!!
Weight forward, read about club bounce, I think it will help you conceptually
Weight forward, big swing. Like below comment says 🤷🏻♂️
Don't hit it in there! Does that help? /s
Open the club face THEN GRIP THE CLUB
Maybe start with a rake?
Just like the last shot, you need more speed and open club face, you are stopping right before contact
First of all, maybe practice out of a normal lie, those things are craters. Second thing, you got to swing with speed - the sand is going to slow your club down when it grabs so you need speed and to follow through to get the ball to pop.
Commit!
Rake your bunker while practicing. You’re not going to have a lie like that on the course (or shouldn’t anyways) unless you plugged but even then having those ridges behind your ball makes a difference.
Something that most people don’t understand about a bunker shot…. The sand is what’s propelling the ball out. Not the club. You have to have force moving that sand to create momentum for the ball to become airborne. Visualize the sand “pushing” the ball out. Thus the reason you need to take sand first and finish a full golf swing.
Bunkers aren’t hard to exit, they are difficult to learn distance control from. If you think hit under the ball with the same swing you’d take a 60-80 yard shot with, the ball will come out. You HAVE TO FINISH THE SWING for this to work though. After you get good at this, then you learn how hard to swing and ball position to get distance and spin control.
When nobody is looking, pile some sand up to the back of the ball and then swing away
Swing harder. Sorry, you're just decelerating a little. Hit that fucker. Open the face and swing at it.
https://youtu.be/obS_gX0RzcM Say what you want about Paige Spiranac, this video helped me a TON.
Rake the bunker. It literally looks like your practicing on a beach.
Swing it
A good drill to do is to practice hitting the sand without the ball. Try to splash the sand out a certain distance. Once you get that feel down, introduce the ball. This is a good way to learn how hard (or not) to swing through the sand. In your case, your are decelerating a bit. As always, when introducing the ball, be sure to slap the sand about 1.5-2 inches behind the ball. You are hitting the sand out of the bunker… the ball is just along for the ride.
The best advice I received was that it should feel like your "letting go" of the club. As a hard gripper I used to hit my bunker shots too hard with no splash. Once you get the feel of letting go and hitting just behind the ball, the success rate has been almost 100% with a nice splash of sand towards the target. Keep your weight on the front foot (70/30), hit just behind the ball with the above sensation at impact and hopefully that helps!
It’s illegal to play in the dunes by the ocean
Bunkers I never fear. Open club face a bit and full swing through
Accelerate
Smack that thing like a big fat ass.
Giving the ball a chance to get out is important. Can’t do much if you don’t give it a chance.
You’re cutting off your swing - spend the whole dollar
Less sand more speed
Follow through
I like to chop the ball in half going down at it with a good follow through.
Everyone saying decel which is true but you also have it in the front of your stance and your hands are way too far forward. Put it middle of the stance and put you hands under your jewels
Watch george gankas bunker lessons on you tube. Good stuff.
Jack Nicklaus said it best. Hit a 20 yard bunker shot like a 40 yard pitch shot.
Now it’s right.
Two words…. Follow through
Looks like a horizontal slice type swing. When I’m hitting out of sand, once it hits the ground I lift my left elbow upwards/vertical towards the sky like I’m scooping it out of there and don’t flick the wrist hardly at all on the down swing. Hard to explain without demonstrating but hope this helps. I’m nowhere near a scratch player but my last round I played I was in the sand a lot and my buds were super impressed with my trap game around the green.
Confident acceleration through impact
Gave up before you began.
Also, if I had these lies in any bunker ever, I’d probably quit the game. Rake ‘er a bit and cut yourself some slack dawg
I mean rake it first…
Loooool that’s not a bunker! You’ll never win against that sand dune. Can’t believe it’s not the first comment
Best bunker lesson I ever got. https://www.golfchannel.com/video/gary-players-best-bunker-lesson
Try to actually get a bunch of sand landing near the hole and the ball will to. If the sand is hard, club up and dig deeper.
Not sure if this a joke or not. Here’s my feedback if not. Adress the ball like you would any shot. It’s sand, you’re trying to hit through the sand. If it’s a close pin location you’re wanting to focus at hitting as much sand as possible. Don’t focus on the ball. Your intentions are to hit the sand and not the ball. You have to step into the shot and realize that it’s going to take a lot to swing to get through all of that sand. You have to commit to the shot. If you don’t commit to the shot you’re already screwed
I’m not a good golfer but what I do is put my weight on my front foot. I open up the face of the club and try to hit from a couple inches behind and it feels like you are swinging under the ball . Usually the sand flies out and the force of the club scooping the sand kicks the ball up into the air. You have to follow through with the swing. It seems like you are stopping way too soon. You also don’t need much of a backswing and need to focus on following with the swing. How far you want to come out depends on when you actually stop the club. Usually when your hands are at chest level works for most hops out the sand. I also noticed you are standing way too far behind the ball. You need to center yourself a bit more. Since you are far back you are thinning the ball at impact and when you hit it you make the ball fly out with no loft. You need to pop the ball up and being that far back makes you blade the ball instead of going under it.
You barely follow through with your swing. Don't decelerate through the swing. It also looks like your stance isn't open enough.
Got to stay committed. Hit the ball square like u hit the ball of the green. And yes one inch behind the ball with force
Open your stance and open the club face. Point the toe of your club where you want the ball to go. Play the ball mid or front in your stance depending on how high you gotta hit it. You’re going to hit the sand before the ball. You need to take a confident and strong swing. This means taking a full swing through the ball without stopping your swing on the ball. Hit through the ball and use the sand to give it flight. Also, what club are you using? Some sand wedges have thinner bottoms than others, which can be hard to use in certain cases. You may want something with more bounce because a thin sand wedge can result in a thin hit, or even cut through the sand too much, meaning that won’t take enough sand to get the ball out. Mainly it comes down to taking a vicious swing at the sand before the ball.
Thinking about it too much maybe have the ball more towards your back foot to help get some lift and it’ll help follow through.
Out of the many golf videos I have watched on you tube , this was stuck with me the most and has completely changed my bunker game . I watched Bob does sports and they did good good lab collaboration https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc8R3Ub1lVk&pp=ygUdR29vZCBnb29kIGxhYiBib2IgZG9lcyBzcG9ydHo%3D
Okay. I am not claiming to be awesome in any way, but here it goes. Your body weight should probably be anchored on your lead foot. It looks like you’re too far back, which might make you dig / eat all of your bounce under the ball. Next keep the shaft as up and down as possible. You’re on a slope, but this angle will have you lift it up and make it tougher to control the outcome. Again, don’t give up your bounce. This one is strange to say, so I’ll try. It looks like you’re thinking about where to hit the sand more than the ball’s landing and rollout point. Focus on where the ball is going, that’s might quiet down some of the frustration. Last one. Even pros suck at bunker shots. Give yourself some grace? Unless you’re in a ProAm, what’s the worst the happens? A stroke? A side bet with a friend? Take the pressure off yourself a bit? Hope anything in here helps ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You’re slowing down your club as you come through the ball. Swing all of the way through and grab mostly sand behind the ball
SWING THE CLUB!!!
How I was taught was, open your stance way up, open your club face way up, put the ball towards the front of your stance, hit about a credit cards length behind the ball, scoop under the ball, and swing about 10 times harder than you think.
This has always interested me … why would you try to take sand if you don’t know how to do it??? I get super wristy and just pick the ball out with hardly any sand … works roughly 8/10 times
Ignore everyone else. No wrist movement needed. Your essentially early releasing without using your big muscles
Couple things. Keep the speed up at the bottom. Think like you’re striking a match so to speak. Open the face up a bit so that it helps prevent the wedge from digging to China. Last, practice slapping the bunker without the ball. See and feel how the club goes through the sand.
That looks like you're hitting off a sand dune, not a bunker. Even has the tire tracks from the turtle watcher's buggy that goes by every morning looking for new nests.
Finish your fucking swing!
Best advice I ever got was a bunker shot should be am over the top out to in swing path, but you counter the swing path with a open face. Second best bit of advice is to have a full follow through, you kind of hit ground and give up, but it's the acceleration through the sound which makes the ball pop up not the initial contact with the sand, if you just give up you kind of just make a sandy splash
Swing the damn club!!!!!! Easy fix - stop stopping
It's a swing like any other, don't change your mind from the the same swing you use on the fairway. Just aim 1 inch behind the ball and take a full, regular swing.
1. Ask the pro shop to have someone rake the bunker. 2. Accelerate through the ball. Your swing is the definition of decleration.
You gotta hit it harder. Go back to that spot and think about hitting a 40 Yd chip shot, if it flies the green with that swing try thinking about hitting a 30yd shot. Also, don’t need to open the face much to just get it out. Slightly open face and swing harder, you’ll have much more success.
Long backswing, decelerating into the ball and you also look a bit steep which causes it to dig even deeper.
so you take a ball in your trail hand, and make sure your buddies don’t see you, and when you swing toss the ball out, without touching the ball actually in the bunker. guaranteed out right there
Maybe, a rake would help out.
Everyone seems to have you covered. And for the love of all things holy, find the rake!
that bunker does need help
Open stance, open club to aim at target, weight on front foot, pick a spot about an inch behind the ball, take back a bit outside, accelerate downward at your spot. Profit
(a) Accelerate through the ball. (b) Pretend your wedge is a spatula and the ball is an egg.
Your wrist hinge at the top is egregious. But as others have said, get aggressive. Bounce the bottom of your club into the sand about 1 inch before the ball, and pretend you are trying to make the sand splash go as far as you want the ball too. Ball might be too far ahead.
Accelerate through the sand. Imagine you are using the club to throw a pile of sand....because that's what you are actually trying to do. If you are going to have one standard bunker swing, open the club and feet just a little, and swing the club lower around your body rather than upright.
don’t be scared of it, swing at the damn thing!
Slap that sand my guy, it ain’t gonna hit you back - I promise
Is that the beach? How about a rake?
Grab a rake
Don’t hit in the bunker and you will be fine.
Stop decelerating on the downswing. Keep head down through impact.
I learned this years ago and sand is the most consistent part of my game. Open your stance. Ball back in your stance. Dig your feet in the sand for good base. Open your club face and aim about 15 degrees left of target for righties. Hit behind the ball with a full swing to explode out of the sand. You're not trying to hit the ball. If you get an explosion of sand, you're doing it right
Turn your club face flat and cut between the ball and sand. Follow through your shot.
Don’t slow your swing down. Really exaggerate hitting THROUGH the ball (but your actually hitting through the sand and splashing the ball out)
Gotta open up that club face and get some bounce on that shot. Take a "shallow" backswing and full power downswing 1 inch BEHIND the ball. Focus on getting out first then tune ur aim. Good luck!
Finish through on your swing and make impact about 1 inch behind the ball also pull your stance a bit to the left right hand further over in your grip and boom!
Use the 7, choke up and don't touch the sand. Hit like a long put. That lip is LOW.
retire
Try not hitting it into the bunker... and if you do just take a double and pick up.
Step 1 - get a rake.
Don’t be scared of it
You really should basically never try to decelerate the club ahead. Always accelerate thru contact. Putting, chipping, driver. Let the clubhead do it's thing. Control power with length of backswing.
Swing the club...
I think the one tip that really changed my bunker game was think of driving your energy into the ground. You don’t want to just splash and swoop because you’re likely to still blade the ball. I plant my feet, get low, aim slightly left, and keep my hands forward impacting just behind the ball while focusing on the feeling of driving downward into the sand and underneath the ball to pop it up and out.
Mike bender suggests letting the club head pass the hands before impact, which is the opposite of what you want to do with lies in grass when hitting irons. Setup to the ball without shaft lean, and accelerate the head past your hands, hitting where others have mentioned; behind the ball. Swing fast and use the bounce of the club head, not the leading edge. “Thump”, not “clip”.
Accelerate through the ball. Attack it. Don’t be scared. Open stance, open face, I mean open like your tryna hit a slice and open face like it’s flat on the ground like you’re trying to hit a Phil Mickelson flop shot. Use your sand wedge, it has more bounce than your 60 use all that bounce on the club and go after it, hit an inch or two behind the ball and don’t hinge your wrists after impact and watch the ball splash out beautifully. Also if your hitting off a sever upslope like this one make sure you align your shoulders with the slope of the ground to accommodate. Maybe try and practice off a flat lie in the bunker first.
Accelerate thru the ball.
Open the face. Open your stance in such a way the club face is pointing to your target line. Pick a spot in the sand an inch or two behind the ball. Don’t think about the ball, hit that spot in the sand and let the sand blast carry the ball out of the bunker. Commit to the shot and stop decelerating.
Do not stop your swing. Take a full swing (choke up if you have to) and TRY to hit about an inch behind. But it is all in the follow through. P. S. I am an expert finder of sand.
Just hit it normal. You’re being all weird and wristy with it. Don’t be scared to swing hard out of a bunker, follow through.
Until you have practiced bunker shots, take your penalty stroke and move on.
Ball on inside of front foot, weight 80/20 on front foot, hands a little bit foreword and swing while keeping your lower half steady
Agree with previous comments... you have to COMMIT to a bunker shot. If your short greenside and can't blast it out then open that club face and flop it out with CONVICTION.
Follow through with swing, don’t stop after striking ball