Wir betonen, dass die hier eingebetteten Videos nicht eigene Inhalte sind, sondern durch IFraming nur Verlinkungen zu den Rechteinhabern, die die Videos zur Einbettung anbieten. Diese bestimmen, ob die Videos und Fotos mit Werbung versehen sind, Dir derzeit zur Verfügung stehen oder eventuell schon gelöscht wurden.
Die Videos sind © by GolfDigest/Genres, PGATOUR oder PGA Video.
 
Tom Watson
 
1. Don’t Give Up In The Sand
Try this bunker drill, you’ll continue your shoulder turn through impact and avoid leaving the ball in the bunker.

At the Memorial Tournament last year I saw Nick Faldo give this tip to the governor of Ohio, John Kasich, who was struggling to get the ball out of the bunker. He would swing off his back foot and flail at the ball with his arms. He had very little body rotation and kept hitting too far behind the ball. Nick told him to get into his setup but without a club. He then had him cross his arms, putting his right hand on his left shoulder and his left hand on his right shoulder. From there, he told Kasich to turn his shoulders away from the target and then toward it. The idea was to keep rehearsing this turn back and through until he could feel it in his swing.

What Nick was getting the governor to do is use his shoulders to drive the motion. The arms follow this pivot, swinging low and left of the target. If you incorporate the feeling of this drill, you’ll continue your shoulder turn through impact and avoid leaving the ball in the bunker.

ELEMENTARY WATSON
What do you do when your ball is buried in the sand and the pin is fairly close? Lee Trevino taught me this shot. Weaken your grip, open the face of your wedge, play the ball forward of center with your weight on the front foot, and swing steeply into the sand right behind the ball. You have to swing hard to generate enough speed to produce a soft shot that stops quickly on the green.

2. Rule No. 1 In Chipping
The left arm controls the chipping stroke, both back and through.

Rule No. 1 In Chipping
You’ll never mis-hit the ball again
 
The left arm controls the chipping stroke, both back and through. If you’re struggling to hit crisp chips that track toward the hole, work on this basic principle. Let the left hand and arm start the backswing together as a unit, with a slight hinging of the wrists. Then, on the downswing, make sure the left arm leads the clubhead into the ball. You can see here that even after the strike, my left arm and hand have stayed in alignment. It’s as if I backhanded the ball toward the hole. Focus on your left arm, and you won’t hit those fat or thin shots that result from flipping at the ball with your wrists.
 
ELEMENTARY WATSON
I remind myself of two key moves when I’m chipping:
(1) Keep my head still by looking at a dimple on the back of the ball;
(2) Hit that dimple with the center of the clubface. I think of the chipping stroke as merely brushing the grass with the club. Sole the clubhead lightly away from the ball and make little swings to get that feeling. Then when the ball is there, just sweep it away.