Don’t Let Fairway Bunker Shots Intimidate You

Josh Zander

Josh Zander

NorCal's #1 Golf Teacher, Golf Magazine Top-100

Fairway bunker shots can be intimidating, but if you understand the proper technique, it’s actually quite simple. Think of this concept – there’s a point where a golf swing is swinging downward, that’s when the handle is ahead of the club head, then it reaches a slow point right underneath the butt end of the club and then it ascends, and this is the key to this shot. We want to catch the ball with an ascending hit so we can pick it out of the bunker and get it over that lip.