High Splash Golf Shot Bunker Lesson

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High Splash Golf Shot Bunker Lesson with Mark Crossfield PGA professional and Steve Buzza, Talking bunker shots and how to hit a high bunker shot which should stop by the hole. Play your best golf with simple and easy to understand golf tips and drills from Mark Crossfield.

25 thoughts on “High Splash Golf Shot Bunker Lesson

  1. last summer I decided to focus more on rotating my upper body like Buzza
    recommended and I found I was getting out a lot more often. Probably
    because I was moving way too many body parts before… Something to try…

  2. Ironiclly I never worried about bunkers much as I missed right by so much I
    missed them! Then just had to lob it over! Since my lesson and improved GIR
    my misses are less and I’m in so many more!! The basic bunker tip from a
    while back helps but high lip or short sided I needed this, time to
    practice & get up and down from the sand!

  3. Of course we play it like that, we have all seen your videos, why do you
    think I bought a toe sweep lob wedge, my favourite club in the bag he he

  4. There was a top U.S. comp a year or two ago where all the pro’s had a
    practice round , got together for a group whinge to the course managers
    because the sand was TOO HARD !!
    Result , all bunkers were re-sanded before the 1st round .
    I remember one of the European players having a moan about a bunker he was
    in , to the head referee (Mr. Paramor I think) . The answer he got was to
    the effect of “It’s a hazard , if you don’t like them , don’t go in them .”
    End of discussion .

  5. My bunker play improved a lot by watching the luke Donald master class
    videos. Interesting was having a slight backward shaft lean. Worth checking
    out. I starting spinning out of the bunker and felt very confident about
    doing it too.

  6. Couldn’t agree more about the bunkers being not something to be afraid of.
    When I started out playing golf 3 years ago my playing partners would
    always say “ohhhhh in the bunker again, why do you bother going for the
    green in 2?” after some practice they now say “yeah well you can only go
    for the green in 2 because you are great out of bunkers!”. Mark is right.
    Get good in bunkers and watch the handicap tumble.

  7. Personally I don’t mind being in the bunker at all. I’ve practices a lot on
    my bunker shots and can get up and down probably 60% of the time which for
    a 10 hdc I think is pretty good. I’m not quite as comfortable from a
    fairway bunker but I lose a lot of strokes from 150 yards and out most days
    so I generally need to work on my distance control/ consistency from
    150-200. I think after I’m more comfortable with those shots my fairway
    bunker play will improve as well

  8. Interesting video but that sand looks lovely. Please can we get a video
    like this showing the correct approach for the wet, hard, tightly packed,
    slightly frozen stuff we face at this time of the year.

  9. hey +Mark Crossfield
    i now most of the people enjoy your drivers review like i do, but it would
    be great if you could do more wedges review. test them on chipping and on
    bunker shots.
    this would be really great.
    thanks

  10. Such a good insight to bunker play. In telly they “Nick” usually should
    prefer players to use more loft and run it there when there is a green to
    “work” with. And of course what they tend to do is the opposite. Surely if
    the sand would be “hazard soft and not possible to lip under with secure
    feeling from the bounce” they would have to use different approach and
    chunck it there which I’d say would make the ball go in the hole more
    often. In longerr bunker shots anyway.

  11. I practice a lot of bunker shots (100 to 200 each session). Keeping in
    mind an idea from an interview with Michelson about going from 100th+ in
    bunker play to 4th in one year concentrating on 10 yard bunker shots…that
    is what I practice.

  12. Hi mark, great videos. Long time subscriber. Could you explain what exactly
    you are trying to do when you wiggle the club before you take a swing? Do
    you wiggle with your wrists? Finally, Wiggle is a great word.

  13. Sand: Like it thick and fluffy, can get out usually. Thin and hard packed,
    hates it, skull or dig mostly. Any advice? (“Don’t go in ’em” i kno)

  14. Some of my local courses some bunkers are way too hard, and then some are
    way too soft. And it’s stupid, because on the same hole one bunker could be
    rock hard, and the other could be way too soft.

    Let me elaborate some more: one nice private golf course where I had a
    membership had bunkers getting a little on the hard side (which I didn’t
    mind at all), and so many members complained about them being too hard.
    Then they literally raked the shit out of them so much that they were the
    softest bunkers ever. So much so that my ball could plug as much as 8
    inches (I even once LOST a ball in the bunker, and I was 100% sure it
    landed in it)! Even short chips plugged every single time! Suffice to say,
    my handicap went way up in the week that the bunkers were like that.

    On the opposite end of the spectrum, I have played bunkers so hard that you
    have to pretend you are hitting off of cart path. Just absolute
    stupidity…

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