If you need advice on how to improve your game, Scottie Scheffler is the man to ask.
Unfortunately for amateur golfers, we haven’t all got a direct line to Scheffler, in order to get tips from him on how to improve.
So when the man from Texas gives a masterclass on any part of the game, it’s always worth listening to what he has to say.
The 28-year-old already has 15 PGA Tour wins and three majors titles to his name.
Scheffler has been tipped to win more majors than his main rival Rory McIlroy by the time he hangs up his clubs.
The three-time major champion is incredibly strong in pretty much every single department of the game.
And now he has tried to make life easier for amateur golfers with a bunker tip on how to get the ball out of the sand more easily.
Scottie Scheffler’s bunker tip for amateur golfers
Scheffler took part in a bunker instruction masterclass for TaylorMade Golf alongside the legendary Tiger Woods.
Being such a tall man, the 28-year-old has to play bunker shots slightly differently to most.
He has to stand further away from the ball, in order to be able to get down close enough to it at impact.
Scheffler responded when asked by Woods how he goes about tackling bunker shots to tightly tucked pins.
He said, “Typically a 60. I would go to all the way down to, nine iron is where it’s kind of pushing it, I would never use an eight. Something like this though, this short, usually a 60 for me. This is a pretty good lie, I try and get wide. Last year, I started working on getting further away from it, because for me, it was harder to get my hands lower. So it was easier if I just got in a little further away. Stand really far away, handle back, and basically throw it at the hole. Use the bottom (of the club), and try to get underneath it. I usually try and feel it all in the back of the club.”
Basically Scheffler is trying to say how lowering his centre of gravity helps him get the club underneath the ball at impact.
Scottie Scheffler’s PGA Tour bunker stats
Scheffler is utterly dominant in pretty much every single statistical category on the PGA Tour.
However, his bunker play is surprisingly average.
He is ranked 73rd on tour in sand saves. Scheffler gets up and down out of bunkers just over 60% of the time.
That is quite the drop-off from his scrambling stats, where he’s ranked third, getting up and down 69.52% of the time on average.
If Scheffler improves his bunker play just slightly, and gets the ball up and down around 65% of the time, he will jump inside the top 20.
And then it really could be game over for his rivals.
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