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THE LONG SAND SHOT

You are in the sand with a decent lie, but are faced with
a shot of about 40 yards to carry either over the lip of
the bunker, or to make it to the pin, and running the
ball up is not a good option-what do you do?

Instead of trying to hit a hard sand wedge an inch or
so behind the ball, use an 8 iron and enter the sand
a safer two inches behind using a full swing, but
without trying to hit it as hard as you can.

In using this approach, if a mistake is made,
you won't be as likely to hit the ball too far,
which may put you over the green where most of
the trouble tends to lurk on any given hole.





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