| tart --> | | | | be hit out of fairway bunkers. The reason is, if you |
| If you had to rate golf shots on degree of difficulty, | | | | take a normal golf swing and if you catch a little sand |
| personally, I would think fairway bunkers is a top five. | | | | you won't go far, or you'll top it. That's what your |
| There's no question about it. I'm going to share with | | | | golf swing is designed to do is to run level with the |
| you a golf swing technique to help you with this shot. | | | | ground. |
| One of the main reasons some of you struggle with | | | | Let me share with you a great golf swing technique |
| fairway bunkers is when you have a long fairway | | | | that will help you in the future when you're in the |
| shot, a Par 5, you've hit the fairway bunker in 1 shot | | | | fairway bunker. |
| and now you want to reach the green in 2, so, you | | | | Using an 8 iron, if you play this golf ball in the middle |
| pull out your trusty fairway wood. | | | | of your stance and put a little weight on your left leg |
| There's a problem with that. The sole on the bottom | | | | and put the handle of the golf club over towards |
| of a fairway wood, a metal wood, is a lot wider than | | | | your left side and swing your arms up and down, the |
| that of an iron; let's say the 8 iron. The sole on the 8 | | | | ball will go near 125 yards. |
| iron is about, maybe a fifth or a fourth as wide as a | | | | The next time you're in the fairway bunker, if you're |
| 3 wood. This is what happens if you try to hit a | | | | looking for 125 yards, try this golf swing technique |
| fairway wood from a fairway bunker shot. | | | | and use a lofted club, a 7, 8, 6 iron. Put the ball in the |
| What you do is, as you start to swing down, the | | | | middle of your stance, put a little weight to your left |
| sole of the golf club catches the ground and makes | | | | leg, swing your arms up and down, and feel the chop |
| the wood skid. A lot of times you'll take a little too | | | | down on it for a 125-yard golf shot out of the |
| much sand and hit it 10 feet, or you'll top it. | | | | bunker. |
| Fairway woods, metal woods, were not designed to | | | | Try that tip. |