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When A Good Divot Is Not The Right Divot

The Problem

You’re presented with a buried lie in the bunker and continually skull the shot over the green or leave it in the bunker.

The Cause

The divot that you are taking in the sand is probably too “good.” In our Scoring Zone schools we teach people that a “good” divot has three elements: It is shallow, consistent in depth, and it is as much through the ball as it is behind. The first of these three concepts (shallow) creates the problem in a buried situation.

The Solution

In one of our Scoring Zone programs we teach students to create a steeper angle of attach to deal with buried lies in the bunker. We do this by adding wrist hinge in addition to setting the face more square. With a steeper angle of attack and a square face the player will have a deeper divot, in effect 'digging' the ball out of the bunker.

The result is that the club will dig into the sand more with a very short follow-through and the golf ball jumps out of the sand with very little spin.