This common mistake kills your bunker game. Here’s the solution to it

Welcome to Shaving Stroke, a Golf.com series, game’s smartest minds to share their tips to help you, well, shave! Today, 100 golf teachers Mark Durland explains common swing mistakes in bunkers and how to fix them.

For many casual golfers, bunker shooting is a huge struggle. Although professionals make shooting look easy, the weekend Warriors make them look impossible.

Part of this struggle happened due to lack of practice. At other times, this is because casual golfers have fundamental misunderstandings about the techniques needed to hit the right bunker shooting. Today, we will have both.

In the text and video below, the top 100 teachers, Mark Durland, explains a common mistake he sees kill Casual players’ ability to escape the sand – and some tips on how to practice Correct technology.

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Ordinary bunker defects

What are you doing that is killing your bunker game? You’re too far behind golf!

The reason why this error is so difficult to determine is that it leads to two completely different lapses. When the ball is two to three feet in front of you, a miss is easily spotted and happens. This obviously happens because you’re spending too much sand.

The opposite miss is when you send a golf ball into the water on the other side of the tree or green. This is usually the result of the same swing failure – but the golfer can’t diagnose it correctly because the results are so different. They convinced themselves that this had to come from a completely different swing error.

The reality is that you still hit the golf ball too far, but the club bounces onto the golf ball instead of digging. Below, I have three great ways to practice correcting this error.

1. Using a line

A great way to improve bunker game is to draw a six-inch line on the outside of a golf ball. This will help you determine the entrance to the sand after the club’s head shot. You will soon find yourself hitting behind the ball farther than you think!

Another benefit of using this line is that you will hit the proper bunker shot and find the right distance behind the ball that should hit, whether it is two, three or even four inches behind the ball. Once you understand a successful bunker shot, you should hit the golf ball, just draw a six to eight-foot line in the bunker and then on the efficiency of hitting the proper hit rate.

Touching sand in bunkers on a golf course is a punishment, but it’s not a fine in the practice area, so swing! Understand the feeling of interacting with the sand correctly and bring that knowledge out in the course.

2. Splash some sand

Creating a proper weight transfer is another way to stop hitting too far after golfing in bunker. Many golfers stay on trails in bunkers or create reverse weight transfers to stuff golf balls into the air.

A great way to stay aggressive and transfer weight in bunkers is to splash some sand onto the green. This helps you complete the toes of the trail on the ground and buckle the belt toward the target. Many golfers made excellent defenders and then hit the sand and stopped. The reason they do this is because they see the ball go too far.

To be a great bunker player, you have to swing for a long time. So, stay positive and enterprising!

3. Erase point

Another way you can stop hitting too far behind a golf ball in the bunker is to draw a small dot on the sand in front of the ball at the end of the butt of the club. Of course, you will only do this in practice bunkers and not on the golf course. This helps draw your attention to the front of the golf ball to prevent hitting too far behind it.

The traditional bunker wisdom is to focus on a grain of sand behind a golf ball, but unfortunately this leads to some golfers hitting it Way Too far away. So the next time you enter the practice bunker, place a point in front of the golf ball and focus on erasing it on your follow-up. This will help you hit the golf ball and make some hoarse bunker shots.