I'm wondering if anyone can describe some of the drills Ben Doyle has his students do out of the sand, if that's not breaking any copyright material? At cmartin's recommendation, I recently started hitting half shots out of a "fairway bunker" (actually the long-jump pit at the track across the street). It's helped a lot with ball first contact, but I'm thinking there must be other things to do. Thanks.
Ben Doyle's sand drills
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rbaumgolf
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Basically all Ben asks you to do is draw a long line in the sand; the line represent ball position. Take out the back wall created by the line with your backswing and then take out the front side of the wall created by the line with the downswing. The front wall represents the ball. You shoud avoid hitting the line itself.
Erik_K
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This is correct. You are working on your aim with this drill. Each swing should bottom out just in front of that line you drew in the sand. Start with the wedges and work up to the long irons.
You don't need to make overly aggressive swings here - focus on precision and the feel of striking the sand just in front of the line.
The other famous sand drill is the Great Wall of China.
You don't need to make overly aggressive swings here - focus on precision and the feel of striking the sand just in front of the line.
The other famous sand drill is the Great Wall of China.
Erik_K
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That one helps you 'power' or swing through the shot.
It's akin to swinging in tall grass. I want to say Clampett talks about this drill or a similar one in his book.
So what you do is build up a little wall of sand about 3-4 inches tall and about around an inch thick. Maybe make the length about 3 ft so you can make plenty of swings. The idea is to blast through the sand. Once you do this enough, swinging through a golf ball is going to feel all too easy.
Erik
It's akin to swinging in tall grass. I want to say Clampett talks about this drill or a similar one in his book.
So what you do is build up a little wall of sand about 3-4 inches tall and about around an inch thick. Maybe make the length about 3 ft so you can make plenty of swings. The idea is to blast through the sand. Once you do this enough, swinging through a golf ball is going to feel all too easy.
Erik
Steve Khatib
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The key is to look, look, look and monitor your hands.
Steve Khatib
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Look at the precision in taking out the impac line and at the geometry of the visual equivalants drawn in the sand so the illusions disapear.
sonofflipper
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Hip turn drags the wet mop...Hip Action snaps it! Aim the snap. Core muscles.
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