In reviewing Chad Campbell’s disastrous bunker shot on the sixteenth in the third round of the 2009 Masters, Dottie Pepper offered a bit of sage advice:
The way to play a short bunker shot is to throw the sand onto the area of the grass where you want that ball to first make contact.
That’s a good visualization, and I’m absolutely certain that I’ll have more than one chance to test it in my next round.
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I heard that, too. I wish I’d have known that tip back in my playing days.