Sand Golf: Pitching Wedge Full Swing

Video Transcript

"We're in the sand trap fairway bunker so we've got let's say 80 to 110 yards to the green. So, we might want to try to play our pitching wedge and this is pretty nice dry sand so there's nothing, it's not wet or the lies are pretty good here. So, I'm going to play that the ball's going to fade a little bit because all fairway sand trap shots tend to fade a little bit which means go to your right if you're a right hander. So, you want to get lined up. So I'm going to line up toward my target which either can be the green or if I'm just trying to advance the ball on a long hole toward my target. So, I'm going to line up and then I'm going to aim just a little bit to the left to compensate for the potential fade. And I'm just going to think about picking the ball cleanly off the sand. So that wasn't terrible, it wasn't great but I advanced it reasonably good. So let's try one more. Now that was really good. So if I was within the range of hitting the green that would have been a pretty acceptable shot. I got underneath the ball just enough, popped it up, had some spin on it. So, I hopefully could make lemonade out of this lemon of a lie here. So work on your fairway and iron play out of the sand traps and you'll be amazed at how quickly your total swing improves."