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Short Game · Technique

Set up for a greenside bunker shot

A setup checklist: take a wide stance with the left foot flared open about 45 degrees, play the ball one ball inside your left heel with the shaft neutral, and set nice low hands. Add plenty of cup in the wrists, stay down with the knees, then hinge, release and keep turning through.

Channel: Dan Grieve

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Try it

  1. Wide stance
  2. Left foot out of 45
  3. Ball just one ball inside the left heel
  4. Shaft neutral
  5. Nice low hands
  6. Lots of cupping in the wrist
  7. Really stay down with the knees
  8. Hinge it, release and keep turning

Why this context matters

'Release to a two or three' is the speaker's own clockface shorthand for release amount.