How to do a Sand Shot 2 Line Drill

Now, as you are getting ready to play this shot, this is a practice technique. So again you can't touch the sand on the course like this, but this is a great way to check it out in your practice. What's you are going to do is, you are going to draw two lines behind your ball, one about three inches, one about five inches behind your ball. You can almost think of it like a credit card distance right behind the ball like that.

Now what this is going to do is, give you a reference for where you are hitting the ground. So what you want to you do is go ahead and get up and hit your shot just like normal, but face to the right I have got myself to the left. You do have some room here to hit. You can see there that, that hit all the way on the back window there and the shot was just fine.

So what happens is, somewhere in this little window, I have got to make the club contact the ground. Now what you are going to see if you have a problem is, it will look something like this where you might have your mark on the ground there and the divot might show up over here or over here. So if you have a situation where you are not hitting close to your window, that's going to show your problem. So this is a great way to practice. This is one I really recommend to my students and this has been a good one.

Now let's imagine for a second that you practice for a few minutes and you cannot hit that line for the life of you. What you can do is, go ahead and draw those lines like this in the sand without a ball, take the other end of your club and sort of make a little dot there as if it were a ball. Then you can practice swinging it that dot there, just like it is and see how you can do with hitting your window.

Anywhere in those two lines is just fine, just like that. That explains that curious comments you might hear that the sand shot is the easiest shot in golf. Well, I don't know about that if it's the easiest shot in golf, but there is no other shot in the game where you have so much leeway that you can hit three or five inches behind it and still get a very similar result.

So this shows you that little window that we are looking for in terms of where to hit the ground. This is a great drill and probably the best way I know to make sure that you are hitting those shots correctly.


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