This week’s tip is a technique used for a ball plugged in a bunker (“fried egg”).  I figure this tip will come in handy with our members and guests here at HeatherGlen as well as all Calgary Golf Courses, apparently we have more than a few bunkers on the course.  There is nothing worse than rolling up on a bunker and finding your ball plugged in the side of a bunker or even in the bottom of the bunker.  Here is a neat trick to try to help get the ball out of the bunker on the first attempt.

To pull this shot off properly you have to think of putting the club completely opposite of that for a flop shot.  When attempting a “Phil Mickelson” flop shot you open the clubface to the utmost extreme.  When attempting to hit a fried egg golf ball from the lip of a bunker you need to close the clubface completely.   This means the heel of the club and back of the shaft are facing upwards.  This will allow the toe to dig into the sand first and rotate the clubface open, causing the club to scoop the sand with the golf ball out of the “fried egg” lie.  You still need to take an aggressive swing at the ball, hitting about 1-1.5 inches behind the ball and make sure to follow through completely. 

We hope you don't have too many of these during your round http://www.heatherglengolf.com.

  HeatherGlen's original 18 is made up of the Grove 9 and a mix of the best Creek and Hills holes. We have made it HeatherGlen 2.0 by completing the addition of a great Par 3 in the middle of the property as well as adding some more tee boxes to update a few holes you already love. It's a fun and challenging 18 playing through the most mature trees on the property.

A couple of changes you will see are the new tees further back on Grove 6 that now becomes a longer Par 4 #2.  Grove 9 tees move up and become a Par 4.  The biggest change being the new little Par 3 #14.  This hole was there previously when HeatherGlen was 18 holes.  We removed this hole and now put it back in with a fun green framed by some beautiful trees.  Check out the layout below.

 

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