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The Situation: Your Bail is hung up on the left side of a fairway bunker, forcing you to stand on the grass and play a shot with the ball several inches below your feet.

Why It’s Difficult: Almost anything can happen-a shank, a heavy miss etc.

The Solution: Spread your feet wider than shoulder width and position the ball just inside your left foot. The steeper the slope, the more the ball will go right, so aim well left of your target. Then bend your knees and drop your rear end to get your club down to the ball-don’t just bend your torso forward. When you swing hinge your wrists quickly and keep your lower body quiet to maintain balance.

Top 100 Teacher Paul  Trittler

The Situation: Your ball is under or near a tree or other obstruction that prevents you from making a full back-swing.

Why It’s Difficult: Without space to make a full swing, you’re tempted to lung at the ball.

The Solution: Keep it smooth from start to finish-all you’re looking to do is get the club-head cleanly on the ball. Plus you’ll be surprised how far you can hit it with an abbreviated swing. Since you’ll be steep going back, play the ball back so that your club-head bottoms out underneath it.

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The Situation: Your tee shot stops just inches short of rolling into the side of a fairway bunker, but now you have to stand in the bunker to play the ball , which is about even with your belt buckle.

Why It’s Difficult: From this position you need a baseball swing, not a golf swing, and how often do you have to play this shot, let alone practice it?

The Solution: Be practical. Advance the ball the best you can and rely on your next swing to help you save par. Regardless of your distance to the green , grab your 7-iron and choke down so that you can set the club behind the ball at address. Dig your feet into the sand for support , and make a few practice swings above the ball to get a feel for the motion. Move the club back and through with your shoulders and chest in a simple baseball-swing motion. It helps if you increase your grip pressure a little so you don’t rotate the face open or closed through impact, and bend your left elbow a little in your back-swing so your motion isn’t so stiff.

PGA Tour Player Chris DiMarco

The Situation: You want to bend the ball to the right around a dogleg.

Why It’s Difficult: Murphy’s law of Golf: When you don’t want to fade it, you fade it. When you do want to curve it slightly right, you hit it dead left.

The Solution: I like to think of this as a cut shot rather than a fade. At address, aim your line parallel left of your target and open the club-face a few degrees. Make a compact swing with a small amount of hip turn. That way when you clear your hips. Your swing automatically moves from outside-to-in, giving you the left-to-right side-spin you need.

Author Golf Magazine

The Situation: Your ball is in the sand 40 yards from the green.

Why It’s Difficult: you’re used to blasting the ball short distances.

The Solution: The secret is to keep your sand wedge in your bag and use a stronger iron, then treat the shot like you would any other  bunker escape. For a 40-yard blast, use your 9-iron. Drop to an 8-iron for a 50-yard-er and use your pitching wedge from 30 yards.

Top 100 Teacher DR. Gary Wiren

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The Situation: Your ball has come to rest in a divot.

Why It’s difficult: The ball sits below the bottom of your natural swing arc, inviting a hand-numbing skull.

The Solution: The following adjustments allow you to make a steep angle of attack and get the club-face fully on the ball.

Play the ball off your right heel and set your hands even with your zipper. Notice how this angles the shaft toward the target.

Hinge your wrists quickly on your back-swing to set the club-head higher than your hands (keep your weight on your left leg)

Pull your arms down and let the club-head lag behind your hands (like i did in address). Your goal is to collide with the ball rather than pick it clean.

Top 100 Teacher Brady Riggs

The Situation: you’re on the tee of a short par 4, and a controlled long-iron puts you in position A.

Why It’s Difficult: The longer shaft invites you to over-swing.

The Solution: Set up For control, not power. You,ll get plenty of distance if you:

Choke down two inches on your grip. This makes the club easier to control and stiffens the shaft to produce a penetrating shot.

Open your stance two inches by flaring out your left foot. This shortens your back-swing and keeps your weight left.

Move the ball two inches back in your stance so you eliminate fat contact.

Top 100 Teacher Mike Adams

The Situation: Your tee shot went wild and landed on an upslope in the rough.

Why It’s Difficult: There’s a high risk of jamming your club-head into the slope before  impact.

The Solution: Play the ball off your right foot so you can catch it first and limit the amount of contact between the club and grass. The slope will force the ball higher,so hit at least one extra club. The typical mistake is hanging back on your right side on your downswing and letting the club pass your hands. Set your shoulders parallel with the slope at address, but feel like you’re “on top” of the ball through impact, not leaning down the hill . Best way to do this; Feel your hands ahead of the club-head at impact.

PGA Tour Player Zach Johnson