Closing the Golf Club Face

Video Transcript

"Okay, in this example. This is quite common actually. I'm in the sand trap and my ball has rolled into somebody's footprint that didn't rake the sand after they were done. This happens a lot, or it's bad weather, you just get a bad lie, but this is very common. So I can't get underneath this ball to open the club face and to get the nice under spin. So I've got to get the ball out of the trap and the only way to do that is to come down hard. So I'm coming at a very steep angle with a closed club face, shoveling the ball out of here. So let's see what I can do on this one. One of my least favorite lies for the ball. Okay I got it out and it stayed on the green. This is a big green, it's a big sand trap. So these are the kind of shots, when you get the ball a little bit like that, there's nothing you can do so you've got to just work on getting the ball out. Now another thing, when you're in a green side bunker you can't touch the sand with the club. So I want you to be aware of that. So instead of grounding it like that, like we do on the grass, keep it above it. So just focus on swinging down behind the ball. That was a pretty good effort. So sometimes you get these bad lies and you've got to just deal with them properly."