A Shortcut for Closer Greenside Bunker Shots

I love little guidelines like this! I name them "rules of thumb" -- they might not necessarily come up with a really perfect end result, however they are close enough which you get a result you may use.

This video at golf.Com is by using Golf Magazine Top100 Teacher Fred Griffin. It's a shortcut that will help you get your ball closer to the hollow from greenside bunkers:

It's super simple: A typical greenside bunker shot travels roughly 1/3 of the distance that a shot with the same length swing would travel from the grass. In other words, as Fred demonstrates here, for a 20-yard greenside bunker shot you want to swing like you're hitting a normal 60-yard wedge shot.

Since Fred says this particular bunker "feels" like 3:1 sand -- and it seems to be of pretty common intensity -- I'm guessing that a shot from softer sand does not travel as a ways. Likewise, if the bunker does not have tons sand, I'm guessing the ball goes farther. You'll want to practice a piece to peer what type of consequences you get from the bunkers wherein you usually play.

Is this going to be accurate all of the time? No, it might not. But it is going to be correct a number of the time, or even whilst it's no longer it ought to nevertheless get you pretty close to the pin.

Did I point out how lots I love little pointers like those? ;-)

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