Golf Fairway Bunkers

Video Transcript

"This is a bunker in the fairway so whatever, generally this would be on a par four or a par five, where you drive or your, on the par five, your second shot has gone into a bunker along the fairway. So you still have a long way to get to the hole so you're going to have to take a full swing out of sand. Now the swinging fully out of the sand is a little different than swinging fully off of the nice fairway grass or even the thin rough or the thick rough. So because the club, since the soil is loose, since it's sand you really have to make sure you hit the ball cleanly because if you take too much sand you're shot won't go very far. So the fairway sand is a little different than around the green side bunker. So for example, if your shot in the fairway bunker ends up against a lip like this, you're not in good shape because you've got to clear this lip to hit your long iron let's say. So I might have to pop out of here just with a sand wedge or a nine iron. Which means I've kind of lost a stroke at this point, but if you're anywhere else in this fairway bunker you're going to have a nice opportunity to take a full swing and hit the ball almost as far as you could. But, you have to focus a little more because the tendency in a fairway bunker is to fade or slice the ball because the sand slows your club down enough to where it opens it up and you generally will fade the ball. So you have to learn to play that and we'll go over that in the next segments."