Closed Golf Stance

Video Transcript

"Okay, the closed stance which is going to be, I'm going to be lined up parallel to the intended line of flight. So if you draw this line, I'm parallel to that. I'm going to have a neutral or a closed face on the club for this particular demonstration. Now I'm usually going to do this if the club, if the ball is somewhat submerged in the sand, or it's wet sand, or I'm in a footprint because really what I want to do now is I want to drive the club down, and I'm not even going to really hit the ball I'm going to scoop out a lot of sand and the ball is going to be in that sand. So if you can visualize that in your mind, that what I'm trying to do here is just almost power shovel through the sand and the ball was in the sand that I'm shoveling, because I don't have a very good lie, so if I try to use an open stance and come under it and get the nice spin it's going to be very tough with this lie. So I'm going to do a closed stance which is, I'm parallel to the line of flight of the ball, and I'm just going to take a nice big swing here. I'm going to need more work here. So that's what you do when you got a bad lie like that, is it's tough to get out of these big sand traps because it's really hard to get enough club on the ball. So I'm going to give it another try and I got that one out. Now when it comes out of the sand, because I'm not able to get the grooves of the club on the ball there's not going to be much spin on it. So you got to practice this shot a lot because it does come up."