How to Play Downhill Bunker Shots
LPGA Teaching Professional Christina Ricci shows how the key when your ball has a downhill lie in the sand is trust (and your shoulders).
Christina Ricci took up the game in 2000 and dropped to a 5 handicap in five short years. She published her first book A Girl’s On-Course Survival Guide to Golf in 2008 and her most three recent More Pars books can be found on Amazon or MissPar.com. She has a loyal social media following with her Tip of the Week (to subscribe visit morepars.com) sent directly to your inbox every Saturday morning and featured on morepars.tv. She also posts weekly on her More Pars YT Channel and on Instagram @getmorepars.
Christina also hosts the very popular More Pars Camps across the country for men and women of all skill levels. Information about all of her very popular camps can be found on www.morepars.com.
Wherever in the world you live you can now get personal coaching from Christina online ranging from one time swing reviews to structured programs that will help every part of your game.
Christina has partnered with the PGA to offer a very special monthly rate for the BETA remote coaching program (currently US only) all through the myPGA app.
LPGA Teaching Professional Christina Ricci shows how the key when your ball has a downhill lie in the sand is trust (and your shoulders).
Christina Ricci demonstrates her easy to remember 3 step process to make sure that you are aligned to your target at setup.
LPGA Class A Instructor Christina Ricci demonstrates the key difference between the way professionals and amateurs use their lead shoulder in their backswing.
If you struggle with long greenside bunker shots, then let’s begin with a smart club choice. Join LPGA Instructor Christina Ricci as she shows how to have success with longer shots from the sand.
Grab three tees and practice your bunker shots with Christina Ricci. With this fun drill your brain will focus on the tees and you’ll make much better contact with the sand.
Christina Ricci takes you through club selection, alignment, set-up and execution to get your ball off that side hill down slope and back into play.
Christina Ricci focuses on your takeaway to create width, square the clubface and get your backswing on plane. Most importantly, the takeaway helps you to achieve leverage with the ground. Nail it right out of the gate for more pars.
Christina Ricci sees a lot players going crazy fast when they’re trying to learn a new move because they’re anxious. When you go too fast you don’t give your brain time to learn the move properly. Slow down – it really works!
Christina Ricci’s complete uneven lies chipping technique for getting it close to the pin when playing a chip shot above and below your feet on downhill and uphill lies.
Many players struggle inside 100 yards. If you’re one of them, watch Christina Ricci’s video lesson to make sure that you are rotating correctly and have enough forward shaft lean.
How’s your weight transfer…back…and through? Christina Ricci shows the importance of getting your weight shifting on to your back foot and then forward and how she initiates this move for good distance and ball flight.
LPGA Class A Member Christina Ricci says if your head’s getting ahead in the downswing you’re dead, but look out … often the true culprit is not the head, it’s something else.
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