As I had mention before the best thing you can do is get yourself fitted for the right Lob and Sand wedge. This article is going to cover the different bunker shot you have experienced or do not know how to play. Your playing and your ball comes to rest on the up slope of the bunker and the pin is tight??

Try this and I learned this one from Ken Venturi the past CBS Golf analyst. Take your lead foot and point it toward the green, you should feel like a duck, then take a sandwedge not a LOB with a square club face grip down an inch from the top swing normal by taking some sand, the ball should come out high and soft. Since you are on the up slope the ball will come out high.

Next ball buried in slope of the bunker, follow the first step know you are going to use a pitching wedge to hit this shot the reason being there is less bounce on this club compared to a sand wedge or LOB. All you have to do is grip down on the club about 2 inches swing hard and kill the face of the club into the sand. In other words hit it fat!!!!. Hitting the ball from a buried lie in the bottom of a bunker. You want to use your sand wedge for this one, remember in a normal bunker shot we play the play forward in our stance with the wedge open.

Here we what to do some different things, one play the golf ball in the middle of your stance. Now we want to turn the clubface inward a bit or at least square as though you are going to hit a full shot from the fairway. Again make a full swing and kill the clubface in the sand, also remember the ball will come out low and fast.

What to do on long bunker shots?? Do not hit your Lob or sand wedge for these shots, like most you skull it or hit the ball over the green. Try using a pitching wedge or 9 iron, just like a regular bunker shot aim left, play the ball forward a bit and open the club face. After that splash the sand and the ball should go the distance you want.

Again take a shag bag with you on the golf course or to the practice area and have some fun with it. It will only help you when you play golf.

All the good bunker players on both the PGA and LPGA Tours get out of the “Bunker” 60 percent of the time. Are you having the following problems getting out?? Hitting the lip of the bunker, leaving the ball in the bunker, and skulling it over the green.

Here are some of your answers, not splashing the sand, trying to help the ball up by scooping, not placing the golf ball in the right position and not making a complete back swing. The bunker should be a “easy” shot to achieve when playing golf. Like most I had trouble hitting this shot until I made the following changes. First, I got my feet shoulder width apart like I was going to hit a driver off the tee.

That made me play the ball inside my left instep or heel. Third, you want to make a big backswing as though you are ready to hit a full an complete iron shot. Finally, you want to open your club face so it is pointing toward the sky or you can support a wine glass on the face of your sand wedge or lob wedge. This brings the “bounce” of the golf club into play, this is how the ball comes out.

After you practice the following, now get in the bunker and build a pile of sand with a ball on top and try to “splash the sand”. Remember if anything the sand should come out of the bunker onto the putting green. “Build a sand castle”. Thank you for reviewing this and the other articles. Happy golfing and good luck in improving you golf game.