Short Game · Technique

Use the chunk-and-run for safer long bunker shots

The chunk-and-run is a safer variant of the long greenside bunker shot, especially if you tend to thin it. Instead of taking about one inch of sand to spin it, take two to three inches; to come in earlier, look at a 'ghost ball' set behind the real ball rather than at the ball itself. Nothing else changes and you still apply some chest speed; taking more sand makes the sand pass over the ball, imparting topspin so it runs out to the pin.