Brandon Rave PGA Professional Golf Coaching

The biggest bunker skill you’re probably not training isn’t your clubface, your stance, or how much you open the blade.

It’s controlling the arc height of the club.

Elite players can instinctively adjust where the club enters the sand by changing the height and shape of the swing arc. That’s why they can produce different trajectories, spin rates, and distances from almost any bunker lie.

The problem? You can’t learn this from a tip.

No YouTube video, swing thought, or “secret bunker move” can give you the feel required to control the arc. It’s a skill that has to be trained through purposeful practice and repetition.

If your bunker game feels inconsistent, stop searching for another technical fix.

Start teaching your body how to control the club’s arc.

Skills beat tips. Every time.

“Keep the hands quiet”

Simply impossible.

Golf is a circle.
The grip/ shaft is a circle.

You Must get the face to actively close. For a fade or draw.
I hear countless students saying to avoid being handsy .
Define handsy better!

If we have to actively close the face, there will be specific tensions placed onto the handle to help accelerate the head and twist the shaft.

Everyone knows they need to shift pressure in the golf swing.

The difference is that the best coaches teach you when.

Timing changes everything.

The evidence is overwhelming: elite players shift pressure into the trail foot very early in the backswing. They don’t wait until halfway back or the top of the swing. That early pressure shift creates the foundation for an efficient backswing, better sequencing, and a more athletic transition.

Too many golfers focus on positions instead of the timing that creates those positions.

If your pressure shift is late, you’ll spend the rest of the swing trying to recover.

Don’t just learn where pressure should go.

Learn when it needs to get there.