Fairway Bunker
Play ball in the middle of the stance to insure you hit the ball first. Dig your feet in for stability. Your stance can be square or slightly open. Your number one goal is to get out of the bunker.
Fairway Bunker Shots (by Dan Drier)
Splash Down (by Matthew Malario)
Sand Is Forgiving (by David Ruvolo)
Get the Club Square at Impact (by Brian Cairns)
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (by Dan Pasquariello) ...
Fairway Bunker Shot
When taking on this shot be sure the club you are using has sufficient loft to get the ball over the front lip of the bunker.
Fairway Bunker : A sand or deep grass hazard situated in, or adjacent to, the fairway.
Fairway Wood : A wood other than the driver, or 1 wood.
Fan : Missing the ball completely when trying to make contact.
Fairway Bunker Footing
While in a fairway trap, dig your feet in by twisting them into the sand. Then, let your knees pinch toward each other so the majority of your weight is over the inside of your feet.
Fairway bunker shot from a good lie - distances of 100 to 200+ yards
Fairway bunker shot from a bad lie - distances of 100 to 200+ yards
Greenside bunker shot from a good lie ...
Long Sand Shot
Fairway bunkers are a nemesis to most golfers.
The key here is to take as long a club as possible that will get over the lip of the bunker or sand trap.
double sandy when one plays an approach shot from a fairway bunker into a greenside bunker, then holes the ball in two from there (3 total strokes from the fairway bunker)
Example: She made a birdie on number 2 with a double sandy. down 1.
Fairway bunkers are designed primarily to gather up wayward tee shots on par 4 and par 5 holes; they are located to the sides of the fairway or even in the middle of the fairway.
If in a fairway bunker, same advice is sometimes good. Choose enough loft on club to clear the lip of the bunker and hit the ball and try for shallow divot and follow through.
You can even diagram each hole for your player, with distances to the green from certain landmarks like bushes or fairway bunkers. Draw a separate picture of the green and its slope tendencies.
BUNKER SHOT - Step by step tips and checks and a photo sequence of the fairway bunker golf sure out shot. This checklist is the proven key to successful golf bunker play.
Jacklin went for the carry over the left-hand fairway bunker, while Trevino played more conservatively down the right side. Both finished in the rough, but within iron distance of the green. Two amazing shots followed, both landing ...
For some people this could be the drive; for others, it might be fairway bunker play or putting. To each his own. But there is one type of shot that bothers a lot of players, regardless of their experience. And those are the chip shots.
Because they can hit a 6-iron through a narrow gap in the trees, or play a 3-wood from a fairway bunker, or any one of a number of outrageous recoveries, we try and do the same. And usually it ends in tears.
Intended Line of Flight: The direction a player plans for his ball to begin after impact. (Because she planned to hit a hook from the tee, her intended line of flight was at the righthand fairway bunker).
The fairway is wide enough and there is a fairway bunker out there that catches most balls head towards the lake. A camera is as important here as a driver. Make sure yours is loaded and contains fresh batteries.
(Because she planned to hit a hook from the tee, her intended line of flight was at the righthand fairway bunker). Iron Byron A testing device modeled after Byron Nelson's swing. It is used to test clubs and balls.
 See also: Bunker, Fairway, Golf, Shot, Hit
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