Heather can be a nightmare to the average golfer.  Tackle it by inclining more weight on the left foot.  Resist the inclination to grip more fiercely when you address the ball in a nasty spot.  This is one of the chief faults of the "hacker".  Remember that too fierce a grip at address usually means too slack a hold at impact.

  There remains the cut-up stroke and the bunker stroke, both similar in method of execution.

  First, the straightforward bunker stroke, the explosion from a well-conditioned trap with the adequate amount of fine dry sand.  It is the simplest and most effortless stroke in the game.

  Taking your heavy sand-iron you lay the face back slightly which is the reverse of hooding it.  From an open stance, feet fairly close together and firmly planted in the sand to avoid movement during the playing of the stroke, you concentrate your eyes on the sand an inch or two behind the ball, depending upon how far you want the ball to carry.

  On descending, the club head is going to contact this spot in the sand, not the ball as in every other shot you play.  Swing the club back slowly and smoothly OUTSIDE the line and then swing down normally to the entry to the hitting area.

  From that point you simply drop the hands.  The heavy headed sand-iron drops into the sand.  Moving from outside to in, the club head comes through the sand and the ball is collected on a cushion of sand against the club-face.  Allowed to go through into the follow-through unrestricted the club head will carry the ball clear and plop it lifeless on to the green.

  Make no attempt to manipulate the club head in any way.  As it comes out of the sand into the follow-through the hands and club-face should be as they were aligned in the address, no wrist-roll whatsoever taking place.  Guard against shortening either the backswing or the follow-through.  This is a slow, effortless, flowing motion of the club head.

  There are variations where wet or crusty sand is encountered.  From such bunker lies you may have to take the ball cleanly or even skid it out, but these extremely precise shots are best learned in the bunker under personal supervision.  First master the standard bunker stroke, so simple yet so effective.

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