Hey guys, Josh Jackson, teaching professional at Shaftesbury Glen here with a pro tip for you for today.
Through teaching, I get a lot of questions about trouble lies, especially in the sand. A lot of folks don’t know what to do. So I would say the first thing you want to do is get a stance, get some good footing. So you can see my balls come to rest here up against the lip. Many of you maybe see this every now and then on the golf course. Some of you may be back here or anything. But I think, again, the biggest thing is to get a stance. So you want to get some good solid footing, twist your foot into the sand there. We’re going to brace one leg up here, put some weight on that front foot.
And as far as the swing, as you can see, the lip is in my way. So we’re obviously going to have a pretty short finish here, but we’re going to hinge the club up a little sharper maybe than normal. So a little more hinge than, let’s say, maybe normal. And we’re just going to hit the sand slightly behind the ball. And then we’re going to have a short finish. So it would look something like this. So we’ve got a little bit of weight up here, a little bit more than normal, maybe 60-70% of weight here on this leg, 30-40% here on this leg. Ball position kind of still in the front. And then we’re just going to hinge it up and kind of hold it into the lip. I think if you do those things in the setup and try that swing, it will help you with your trouble shots out of the sand.
