Nick Faldo Bunker Tip from Faldo Golf Institute

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• Instructor: Nick Faldo
• Category: Lessons
• Topic: Bunker Play

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Hi there, I'm Nick Faldo, and I'm in one of my bunkers at the Faldo Golf Institute by Marriott in Orlando, and I want to give you one of my best tips to help you get out of the bunker and cure that fear of getting out of one of these things. And you will need a rake, and that's before you hit it. So I want to show you what you do. Very simply, we need a line. So I give myself a nice straight line, and then you don't need it. Because the reason why is that I want to help you to find your point of contact with the sand. And the easiest way to do this is you put your left heel on the line, right? Stand a little bit open to that line, put the club ahead of the line, but keep the grip of the club— well, the whole shaft— I'm pointing back at your stomach, yeah? And then take your grip. Now what we're trying to now do is find the sand, find the impact point, and simply you've got to marry up your chest and arm action. That's what we call being in sync, yeah? You're trying to get there. So simply turning back, the club points up to the sky, but the most important thing is how do I time my chest and arms down to land exactly on the line. That's what I'm trying to create. So what happens with a lot of amateurs is, you know, this is pretty good, you have a strong grip and you're trying to get the ball out of the sand and you help it up and you hit way behind it. Or the other one is you're so anxious to see where the…