Titleist Golf Tips: Controlling Distance on Your Bunker Shots

When we first start playing golf, how to get out of bunkers can be a difficult skill to acquire. The technique feels foreign at first and the idea of intentionally hitting behind the ball is strange. In the early going, it's an accomplishment to just get the ball out of the bunker. But as our games improve, our expectations get higher. Now we want to get out of the sand AND leave ourselves a reasonable chance of making a one-putt. Taking our bunker game to this new level requires an ability to control the distances of our bunker shots, which is no easy task. Do we swing harder? Take more club? Hit closer to the ball? Ask ten golfers and you might get ten different answers, but for a proven recipe for success, we reached out to Titleist Staff Member James Sieckmann, and he shares his three tried-and-true methods in this latest Titleist Golf Tip.