Clear the Lip of Fairway Bunkers with this Club Selection Trick
Erika Larkin has a great tip to help you with your fairway bunker club selection. Play it safe in the sand and don’t cost yourself extra shots.
Erika Larkin is PGA Director of Instruction at The Club at Creighton Farms in Aldie, Virginia. She is the owner of Larkin Golf LLC and author of A True Swing. Erika was named Middle Atlantic PGA Teacher of the Year 2012, has been ranked the number 1 teacher in Virginia by her peers and Golf Digest since 2014. She is also has been recognized as one of America’s Best Young Teachers by Golf Digest since 2012. She has been featured many times and magazine and appeared on The Golf Channel. Erika is a certified SwingAI Coach where she gives online lessons through the “Play with the Pros” App.
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Erika Larkin has a great tip to help you with your fairway bunker club selection. Play it safe in the sand and don’t cost yourself extra shots.
Erika Larkin shows why your trail hand is essentially your clubface. Learn how a “side-on” grip allows your palm and the face to match at impact, delivering a square clubface.
Are you restricting your power? Erika Larkin demonstrates the crucial move for a full, centered backswing: allowing the lead side leg and foot to release. This move is key to turning deeply without hurting your back!
A strong grip, especially in the bottom hand, causes a chain reaction of swing faults. Erika Larkin shows how it shuts the clubface, ruins body balance, and forces awkward compensations like blocking and slicing.
Stop swaying! Erika Larkin shows how your trail foot’s big toe is the key to bracing your turn, preventing over-rotation, and building a powerful backswing.
Want to simplify your short game? In this lesson, Erika Larkin teaches you how to use a hybrid club for a simple chip shot. This technique is perfect when you have plenty of green to work with and need a shot that flies low and rolls out.
Stop mishitting your chip shots! In this quick tip, Erika Larkin shows an alternative to the common mistake of spinning the clubface open to the target. Learn a better technique for hitting a high, soft-landing shot more consistently.
Erika Larkin from True Swing Golf shows why balance is the most underrated fundamental in golf. Learn what happens when balance breaks down, how to identify issues in your own swing, and simple ways to improve your balance.
Erika Larkin demonstrates a simple and effective hybrid chipping technique. Erika walks you through how to get “cozy” to the ball and make a clean, putting-style stroke that gets the ball rolling and closer to the pin.
Erika Larkin shares her top tips to build golf confidence. Learn to pick smart targets and clubs, trust your alignment, and swing without indecision for more consistent, enjoyable rounds.
Struggling with a narrow or flat backswing? Erika Larkin has the perfect drill to help! Improve your turn and gain consistency with this easy-to-follow exercise.
Tired of that frustrating slice? Join Erika Larkin as she breaks down the crucial geometric principles of a proper golf swing. Learn why trying to keep the clubface straight actually makes it worse and discover how to let the club naturally rotate for a consistently straight ball flight.
