How To Play A Plugged Bunker Shot

Sometimes our game doesn’t go to plan and we can end up in a situation that we haven’t practised too often; a golf ball that’s half plugged down into the ground on a flat surface.

1. In the address position, get the shoulders leaning as far down to the ground as comfortable. You’re probably going to feel like you’re tilted way over to the left like this but do it as much as you can within comfort.
2. This will ensure that you get a little bit of a steeper delivery, helping you get the ball out so you’ve got your lead shoulder a lot lower now in regards to the clubface depending on the shot you need to hit.
3. What is required out of this shot here is that if we can get it onto the green that would be considered a good shot so the address position ‘lead shoulder low’ for this one.
4. Then, you need to have the clubface slightly less open than you would normally. The most important aspect in the downswing is a lot more of a down hinging motion with our wrists. You need to get a steeper delivery combined with the tilt of your shoulders to ensure that the golf club is going down and into the sand.
5. Once again, the golf ball is not gonna pop out like a normal shot. It will instead probably launch a little bit lower and release out.
6. Try and get this ball on the green left shoulder low. Keep practicing from the down-the-line view as you take the golf club out.

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