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00:00 Introduction
00:44 Shot Scope Stats
02:40 What Should You Do?
05:56 The Results
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For anyone struggling out of bunkers, check this video out too to make sure you get out every time 🤙
https://youtu.be/aQQwBwMDaNA
If I was good enough to miss the bunkers I”d already be 10 shots lower on my handicap! 😊
Rather be short on the fairway 👍
Neither one bothers Me.
Saw those Sasquatch Foot Prints on the target Zone Pick ,Posing as Bunkers!😳
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Your mate says stay away from bunkers at all costs! I have always taken his advice so I’d rather be on the fairway every time.
Devil is in the detail here though, right? First hole at my course is 260yd Par 4, guarded by two greenside bunkers and 2 more bunkers about 60yds out – so you either try and drive the green or lay back to ~70yds. Unless you're horrific out of bunkers, if you've got 260 in the tank surely the play is to go for the green? You might average the same from the bunker as from 70yds, but you then have to factor in all of those eagle putts / tap in birdies you might have as well? Maybe I'm missing something?
This makes me wonder what the percentages are for landing in a green side bunker from 70 yards away for the various handicaps. I would hate to be 70 yards away, thinking this is better than being in the bunker, only to then hit my next shot into said bunker! Yikes!
Definitely would prefer being in the green side bunker. 70yd is a weird distance for me
Bunker. All day long.
The stats are comparison stats are great, but being misapplied. The percentage play has to look at all the possible outcomes. At 150 out, consider what is the % chance of hitting the green, % chance of missing the green with a chip on and % missing and going in the bunker. A good player might be 50% green. 15% bunker, 35% chip for a centre green aim. From there, avg 2 putts from green, 3 shots from bunker, 2.5 shots from chip. Total = 2.475 average shots. lay up might be 100% chip = 2.5 average shots. It's not avoid bunkers at ALL costs, but it is to know how costly they are when playing percentages. Don't just aim for the flag and hope!
I guess I'm an outlier as a high hc with a decent bunker game. I'd be picking the bunker every time and be confident of getting closer to the pin than from 70 yards in the fw.
However if my 2nd shot is greenside rough vs bunker I'd be picking rough every time.. Def food for thought there coach 👍
Coach, great advice!
Bunker all day
greenside bunker all day. the only part of my short game that's actually good
Love these insights video coach! One of the reason why swing felt better but my scores haven’t gotten better
Interesting stats but not exactly how it plays out. Aim short of bunker, hit it short, then chip into bunker and take two more to get out! Or aim short of bunker miss hit it 80 yards short of green, take 3 or 4 more to finish hole.
It would be great if you could do this video with a 25 handicapper so you can demonstrate the results and have to deal with the issues than come from having to pitch over bunkers etc. You described the up and down as 'easy'. No such thing for a 25 handicapper.
Obviously it's a lot to do with skill but I know that the quality of bunkers has to play a part. Hitting out of a bunker in winter is like hitting off concrete 😂
The key is knowing yardage each club flies too many people don’t have a clue what clubs carry and judge everything based on how far they think it goes.
The problem here is….. I'm awful at chipping, I'd often fat one, thin one, then chip on. Walk off with a 6.
I'm better out of sand, more often than not I'll make 5 from there, with a few 4s thrown in.
Fairway up to 130m out rather than the bunker every time. There´s no shot more terrifying than out of a wet, hard packed greenside bunker! I used to just go for the green and lost so many shots along with my temper in there, now I just try to avoid them, and my handicap came down in leaps and bounds. great tips here Coach!
Bunkers kill scores. Regardless how you wish to see it, It does. If your local practice facilities got bunkers on range practice from them. If not – use a course bunker when no groups are behind you drop 2 or 3 balls and have a quick practice. It helps. Better to miss them but if you do find one best to know how to get out.
I will take the bunker!
Depends on the bunker. The one you showed I’d rather be in. A deep pot bunker with a 3ft wall of stacked sods, I’d rather be on the fairway.
But then, I’m not good at golf.