Bunker Sand Shots Made Easy! TOP TEN Most Popular Golf Teacher on You Tube Shawn Clement
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- www.shawnclementgolf.com Shawn Clement, #1 MOST POPULAR INSTRUCTOR-TEACHER ON YOU TUBE and Director of the Richmond Hill Golf Learning Centre, CLASS A CANADIAN PGA MEMBER, shows you how to use your sand wedge like a snow plow to skip a divot of sand onto the green where you want the ball to land; easy peazy lemon squeezy!
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As ever: perfectly done and really easy to understand! Keep going Shawn! Thank you so much ;)
Super lesson! I tried this at the range today and it truly worked. Best thing about it was I wasn't focused on getting the ball onto the green from the bunker but imagining how much momentum it would take to get the divot of sand out. I also had a huge smile after I easily got a plugged ball out using the closed face position. Thanks! You truly are the #1 most popular golf teacher on youtube. Ian, Philippines.
@tomwmartin Go have a look at my "Buried Bunker Shot; Shawn Clement" video; you will get a bird's eye view of the set up; also, in my Rhythm Training Series, I use the new Hero Cam to show all kinds of angles; including bunker shots. There is a hero cam video on course as well in my library; Shawn
I really like your snow plow analogy. It really makes sense on how the sand wedge is suppose works.
Hey Shawn, yesterday I hit the bunkers after work.. I hit short to long shots using a sand wedge and my 60degree. I used tempo and rhythm to avoid bladed and shank, 22 out of 24 balls landed on the dance floor..with out the tempo and rhythm I hit a blade and a shank.
. The size of my swing gives me my distance!
This swing is simple, and it becomes very controllable. Talk about confidence!
Again ,thanks for your insight (wisdom).
Wow it works... played 9 holes, and had two actual sand shots...popped out next to the flag; but I placed a ball in every sand trap I came up on... every one of them came out as instructed...great information.
Shaun,
I just want to say thank you so much for sharing all of your videos. I have genuinely improved my game leaps and bounds. I love your explanations and analogies.
You have helped me shoot in the low 80s when I was in the high 90s, just from watching your videos.
I really appreciate all your hard work.
Thanks, from the UK
Luke
Right on Luke! Thanks for letting us know!
wow, what a great video!!!! I get it & now can't wait to practice it. Again Shawn you explain it so easily that it makes sense. Great shots by the way. Love you calling then shots then executing perfectly.
Good teacher. Good ball striker. So much easier to apply your instruction now!
Thank you Mark!
Very nice...worked brilliantly for me yesterday! Thanks!
Shawn thank you for the video. You really improved my game out of the sand. Best explanation around!
first class...helped my bunker play bigtime!
Absolutely brilliant
@DFPFTW How good does that one feel?? Yeah Man!!
Nothing will deflate an opponent more that a great short game; and when you do stuff like that, the look on their faces is the cherry on the sunday! Thanks for sharing that!
Shawn
@cmterpsnskins That works very well; I have used this for several of my students; great question! Shawn
You are undoubtedly the best instructor I have ever come across. I do get to Toronto (from Arizona) from time to time, and I look forward to meeting you. Thanks again for sharing your in-depth understanding of the game of golf.
You bet Elliott!
Thank you and looking forward to meeting you!
hey there Shawn.. I just wanted to say thank you for taking your time and making these video's for us CZcamsrs.. I have been watching for a atleast a couple years now.. your lessons are simple to easy to understand.. out of all the vids I have seen.. yours have helped me out the most.. I really wish I could take lessons from you and thank you in person.. Cheers and THANK YOU!! :) oh also I got you featured on my CZcams homepage :)
@screamingeagletim You got it Tim!
Congrats on the wins and have fun keeping those up!
Thanks for the kind words and comment;
Shawn
Shawn, thanks for the encouragements. Since I last report. I have not had anymore birdies from the sand but I had saved pars on 1/2 of my sand shots. I am feeling a lot more confident now. My buddies are starting to make comments like "where did you learn your sand shots?"
Shawn, thanks for the video. I have tried your thought of imagining the momentum required to toss the sand to the hole. I have since had 3 sand shots in 2 games. 2 shots bounced in the hole for birdies (no lie). One went by the hole and stopped within "gimmie" range. I did open a 60 degree wedge with a cut swing. I surprised myself as I don't usually get my sand shots close to the hole. I hope I see more of it. Thanks again!
This guy is incredible at teaching, top tier best of the best
@bluejfk I will try to get one of those after the next rain fall; it is very easy to do with this technique; Shawn
@plopp1231
It is especially easy with this method to send that wet divot of sand onto the green where you want the ball to land; Shawn
This is a great video! Thanks so much!
Hi Shawn, glad to see the remake of the original video. I've used your technique for sand shots ever since I saw the first video. So simple, so easy to repeat, and effortless. I have so much confidence when I step in bunker. My mini-tour season is going well. 2 wins the last 3 weeks! Keep up the good work and I hope you get the GC gig. One request. Could you remake the chipping and pitch shot vids. Maybe a down the line, chipping toward the camera view. Thanks Tim
I'll bet his students have a blast with him.....excellent teacher.
Thanks Gee gee!! I would like to hope so and strive everyday to make their time with me a blast! Shawn
good video, i like the analogies you use easy to remember. just need to practice after ruining my card yesterday trying to get out of the bunker.
Great Work Shawn for us mortals
Hi Shawn! Voted for you in the golf channel. You're leading! Good Luck!
@caloyjp Thank very much! I will need you again if I make the finals so stay tuned!
Shawn
@clemshaw Looking better than ever Shawn. Thanks again for your effort.
Great video, will help me a lot
This is another great video, thank you! I have squared my club in the sand for ever, and have had the expected results. Quick question- what do you do , if you have to clear a sever lip (like in some pot bunkers)? I am heading to Orlando to play next week, the New Course at Grand Cypress is day 1. They have over 150 pot bunkers, some deep. I plan to get to that course early and play with the hours of video of yours I have watched in the past 3 weeks!
This is the weakest part of my game so will definitely be giving this a try. You make it look so easy Shawn
Bunkers are such a blast, pardon the pun!! :)
Awesome tip works well for how I think about playing bunker shots! Never been a bad bunker player but this throwing sand to the spot really helped my game! Thanks!
+Jim Hoffman
You bet Jim! Thanks for the comment!
Jim Hoffman a
Excellent video
@gregrutz Nope! The question is the same; how much momentum do you need to send that heavy beach sand to the area where you want the ball to land? Feel it with your feet and feel how much resistance the sand will provide when you skip through or across it; then adjust the mo! Shawn
Great tips/lesson Shawn. I'll tell you this game is tough....today I had THREE bunker shots--after good approaches (two on par 5s), wet sand and downhill lie....I've come to the conclusion it's better to not get into these bunkers in the morning. Some things asked of us normal humans are a bit much. Thanks for the great tip on the normal sand shots...I need help on those too.
@bluejfk yes; always follow the slope and visualize the arc of the sand going from the lie to the inside of the hole just like seeing a basket ball arc into the hoop! Then skip the sand onto that arc! Shawn
@myownstarbucks You will! :) Sounds like you got the feel and that lead to more confidence and that led to great performance! Just the kind of snow ball effect one would want!! :) Great comment! Thank you! Shawn
im a highschool golfer in south florida, I chipped in birdie from the bunker ( 25 yards ) during a match from the use of your video. thanks man!
@dancemonkey1313 Rarely will you ever need to modify the swing as this will be more than adequate for 99% of your bunker shots; uphill, downhill, sidehill, use the same techniques I talk about in the "golf pro lesson uphill downhill sidehill" video; except you are skipping across sand instead of grass and ground. Think high fade for the highest pot bunker lips with the same technique; Shawn
@mondeoclub Well if you can't blast it that far, then you need to make it a pitch where you catch the ball first and feel how much momentum you need for that! Same as the web tip on the golf channel video I submitted! Shawn
OMG! I just practiced this on the course and yet again Shawn blows up another myth. This works amazingly well. My only issue is that sometimes you need to hit with less of an open club face with wetter firmer sand.
Good plan for confirming what I already do on the slopes; please see "ball below the feet shawn clement" and "ball above the feet shawn clement" and then "downhill shot shawn..." and "Uphill shot shawn" and simply apply those techniques to skipping across the sand and moving the sand up, down and across the slopes! Shawn
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Changed my bunker play from atrocious to excellent.
@Michael10659 Well; remember that the sand and lob shots are fade shots through and through; so let's see you take the fade around the course Bruce Litzke style!
Power fade baby! :) Shawn
Great video again. For the 50 yards long shot to the tree, can we do a pitch shot instead?
@manvesh97 LOL! Yes of course! But not in practice!! I want my wedges to last!! :) Shawn
@clemshaw
Also the thinly topped waste bunker, and the powdered feldspar uber fluffy sand...
Thanks for this great vid. How much "bounce" number on the wedge would you suggest for a sand shot in average sand?
8 degrees!! Bounce is so overrated because of the way people focus; shawn
I find the open faced bunker shot so hard to do consistently. The dig is easy, the open club face freaks me out. Good video.
Shawn when will you be doing videos for executing bunker shots when the ball is below and when the ball is above your feet ?
shawn... is the backswing steeeper on high bunker shots that you want it to land soft?
Hi Shawn
What about the other details like "brace","spine angle", "spine tilt","weight" etc. for the bunker shot. The arm club unit will need to be in front of the chest like other shots of course, right. Could you elaborate a little on those aspects also.Thanks
@clemshaw when the sand is hard pan do you just pick it?
exactly the same technique! You will feel the texture of the sand through the feet and if you keep the focus on using momentum to move the sand forward using the sole of the club, you will feel exactly how much momentum you will need to use! Just try it with sand only and then when you put the ball there, DO NOT LET YOUR FOCUS GO TO THE BALL!! It is just a grain of sand amongst the rest of them and continue to use the same focus as when you were simply skipping sand onto the green w/momentum
This drill helped me make a birdie today. I went for a drivable par four with a waste bunker down the left side. I clipped a tree branch and was 50 yards out. I used this method and was pin high ten feet to the right( I forgot to tallow for the own club face) normally I would have tried to pick it.
The closed club face method works great when your ball is nestled in the green side cabbage. You do have to compensate where you swing to a lot for the closed club face though...
This reminds me of when I was golfing with a guy that was hitting sand out of the bunkers during his practice swings.
never realized if i opened it too much, it also negates the bounce and render it ineffective. intersting.
I used to be able to hit great greenside bunker shots. I would get my club nicely under the ball, get some loft, and some check, and generally be within a four-foot radius of the pin.
All of a sudden, my club is skidding through the sand, and I am continually blading sand shots. I cannot any longer seem to hit underneath the ball as I used to. Oddly, it is the same sand wedge I have been hitting with for ages.
My ball position is usually back of center (ball towards my back foot, just past center), open stance, and relatively open club face. Thank goodness for the lip, as that has saved me several times in recent rounds, with my ball just popping out of the sand instead of 30 feet over the green. Heeeeellllppppp!!!!
You missed a lot of stuff in this video bman!
When you open the face, THIS IS A FADE SHOT!! The fade has the ball forward of centre and THERE IS NO UNDER THE BALL!!! There is only spraying sand onto the green by skipping the sole of the club ALONG THE SAND; the ball is just another grain of sand so do not ever focus onnthe ball, focus on where you want the sand to land! Skip a few pennies onto the green and then place a ball over the penny and skip the penny on the green again!
Shawn, thanks for the comment, I actually watched the whole vid carefully. Was just relaying what had worked for years, and then what all of a sudden hasn't. Will try the penny drill.
Can you make a video of chipping from the bunker and the flag is about 10 yards away? I am hitting nice bunker shots at this one course but the flags are really close to the bunkers.
@myownstarbucks Make sure you are playing for sandies with your buddies next time; more gravy for you! :)
Shawn
@shinji0843 It is exactly the same technique! This just means that you are focused on the ball because you are wondering what to do with that lie! If you are not sure how the ball will come out, your focus is no longer on the spot you want to land the sand!! PICK A SPOT WHERE YOU WANT THE WET SAND TO LAND AND USE THE MOMENTUM NEEDED TO GET THE SAND THERE; when you do that without a ball a few times then put a ball there and repeat the SAME FOCUS!!
Shawn: I live in Sedona and our green side bunkers are very compacted do to nightly irrigation... therefore it's very difficult to keep the club from bouncing off the hard pan. Any tips for a compacted bunker? The 60 degree has lots of bounce and just skip's off the sand and thin's the ball.
You never want more than 8 degrees of bounce on any sand wedge when in it to perform the task properly. And there is a big difference between compacted sand (very easy to move with the sole of the club) and clay hardpan where there is no sand (much more difficult)
David LaFrance 4
Shawn; I am really confused about all these different wedges. Can you please make a video about all the wedges? Meaning, explaining the different purposes and what each wedge is made for? thanks.
Good idea for video; will put it on the list...
@clemshaw You can count on me Shawn! Good Luck!
@manvesh97 Sounds to me like you are opening the club up too much and or are shoving the club into the ball; it has to feel like a nice whipping skip across the sand and you cannot exert any kind of strain in the swing; how are your flop shots?? See my video on those because it is exactly the same technique! Shawn
Two questions if you don't mind: What degree club and bounce angle do you recommend? Do you use your legs like in any other shot? Thanks Shawn!
8 degree bounce with dual sole; and yes; don't think about the legs and allow them to be used!
Nike Dual Sole?
Yes, nice wedge! I got my daughter that one and waiting for mine!
Last question...I promise: I only show that Nike wedge to be available in 60 degrees and 13 degrees bounce. If I want an 8 degree sand wedge with a "dual sole," as per your suggestion, then can you give me a recommendation? Thanks again for the information....Your videos have me inspired to work on my game again!
13 is a bit much; go with the Vokey; they are still my wedges and are simply fantastic!
I would be very interested in seeing how to handle hard sand - like after it had rained (the ball is sitting on concrete almost you know?). The bounce of the club basically skips on the hard surface and directly hitting the ball, causing all sorts of mis-shots... HELP!
Was on board till that swing around 3:40 😂 good stuff though
Dude; the ball keeps going where I want it to go; would you change? Could not care less of what you think or how it looks; it will shoot par on any 7500 yard track. So hopefully you got passed it and learned something to improve your sand play.
It will also improve all other aspects of your play as well; have you seen Matt Wolff on the PGA lately?
Shawn Clement lol settle down it’s a joke you if it works it works like I said good stuff.
So, you always hit inch behind the ball regardless of the pin location? I was thought the closer the pin the more behind (inch and half) and further the less you hit.
That would put your focus on where you hit the sand; WHICH IS NOT YOUR TARGET. The target is the spot on the green where you want the sand to land!
Your eyes are on the spot of sand an inch behind the ball but the VIEW BECOMES GLAZED OVER AS YOUR MIND FOCUSES ON THE PICTURE OF A SAND DIVOT LANDING ON THE GREEN WHERE YOU WANT THE BALL TO LAND.
You are using the momentum of the arm-club unit to spray the sand divot onto that spot; The ball is a big grain of sand that goes with it.
The snow plow analogy confuses me. It seems like you are saying the part of the club below the leading edge (aka, the bounce) is used to shoot sand onto the green. That sounds like you are trying to throw sand and the ball with the plow-like action of the bottom of the club, without the club actually going under the ball. Maybe it is the case that the plowing action moves sand and ball up and toward the green before the club actually gets to the ball position and, thus, the club glides underneath the ball? I always thought it was the club face that shot the sand and ball.
All of the above!
this must not be a revised edition of the same video because i'd think you'd have done more closeup shots in a revised one right shawn??
Open club face? This doesn't mean the face is pointing to the right does it? You mean more open to the sky correct?
Why is the club called a "sand wedge" if it needs to be oriented "open" and not straight? Is a sand wedge designed for another shot?
6:59 through 7:13 SUPER DOOPER!
an important stroke in golf ...
One last thing. When you have an uphill lie, don't you have to hit that green side bunker shot off the back foot with q flat footed followthrough just like a normal uphill ie
How about what to do when the quality of the bunker is pretty, or absolutely, awful? The bunkers at my local barely deserver the name of 'bunker'. They're not raked (no rakes supplied because they get stolen), the sand is clumpy, full of leaves, twigs and even stones. It's more like hitting off loose concrete than sand.
Your swing is very vertical on the way back. Is that just your style?
You could say the same for Bubba and Jack but the fact is that the backswing is wide, and wide is up; see "arms and body timing shawn clement" part 1-2
If the club is tilted froward like you do with your Irons.....then all this info is no good....check your shaft first then follow the rules about hitting through the sand just behind the ball....also make sure it is a full shot.....
FIRST
please remake your driver videos.
You need to get subscribed to the Premium Channel on my website! Remade the driver videos in spades and with the Flightscope unit and split screen!