Tinkering by John Clarke

Author:John Clarke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Published: 2017-10-24T04:00:00+00:00

Bunker Shots

Don’t ‘psyche yourself out’. Assess the position carefully, with a positive outlook and a specific aim. Work out where you would like the ball to land. Then take a sand wedge, work your feet into the ground slightly to give yourself some traction, take a couple of practice swings and then pick the ball up and throw it on to the green.

Club Selection

It is important when selecting a club to be aware of the distance it is designed to hit. Let’s have a look in the bag. Let’s say you’re playing a relatively standard par 4; it’s about 450 yards from tee to green with bunkers left and right at about 260 yards, water down the left side and a forest to the right containing a number of tigers.

From the tee you’ll need distance. A driver, a 1 wood or a 2 wood should get you over most of the trouble; ideally over the bunkers although personally I’d be just as happy to be over the water or over the tigers. As long as you get over something.

Your next shot, not counting a bit of cleaning up here and there, your next shot of any real importance, is very often a remarkable recovery shot and frequently requires a good lusty whack of about 200 yards. There are two ways to approach this: you can try to get to the green with, say, a 3 iron, or you can pull out the fairway wood and lay up, leaving yourself a pitch of about 186 yards.

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