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| THREE STAGES OF SAND PLAY (Dan Pasquariello) | |||
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I’m certain that we’ve all heard how simple getting out of the sand is since you don’t even have to hit the ball to be successful. But, in reality, the sand shot can be a disaster waiting to happen if we don’t have a plan to escape from the trap. The old golf adage…”get it out, get it on, and get it in” when pertaining to shots out of the sand is right on the money if we read between the lines. Stage One: Get it out…Forget the sand wedge, lob wedge and gap wedge for this shot! Take the pitching wedge-with a good lie in the bunker-keep the clubface square to the target and make your normal golf swing (a circular, horizontal, tilted Ferris-wheel like motion) and the ball will come out very easily. Hit a few inches behind the ball (it really doesn’t matter how far or behind since there is a margin of error from two to six inches behind). Forget outside-in, early wrist-hinge, open stance, weak grip, etc., etc., etc. Keep a square stance and make a golf swing. Your goal is to get it out! For a bad lie, close the face of the pitching wedge and repeat the above procedure. The ball will come out lower and run a little more, but it will come out. Stage Two: Get it on…For this category of golfer, you already feel comfortable with getting the ball out, and you need to get it on the green. Use your lob wedge, sand wedge and pitching wedge and divide the green into three sections. The front third of the green, use your lob wedge with a square clubface, and take a normal golf swing as described above. The middle third of the green should accept your sand wedge, and for the back third of the green the club of choice is the pitching wedge. You have used the same swing motion with three different clubs and have hit the ball three different distances…short, medium and long…how simple is that? Become familiar with those distances. Stage
Three:
Get
it
in…You
are
now
ready
for
graduate
school
in
sand
education!
(Lawrence
of
Arabia’s
foolproof
technique
for
sand
success).
Use
the
above
three
clubs
(lob,
sand
and
pitching
wedges)
for
a
variety
of
sand
shots.
Each
wedge
will
go
different
distances
if
you
adjust
the
angle
of
the
clubface
(open,
square
and
closed).
Find
out
how
far
each
shot
goes,
with
each
club,
from
different
textures
of
sand,
and
soon
your
fear
of
the
sand
will
disappear
as
fast
as
those
unwanted
strokes
on
your
scorecard. |
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