How Do You Deal With Glass Sand & Other Uses For The Sand Wedge?
If you play golf on various courses throughout your home town or when traveling, you have probably come across bunkers that have unusually soft, white sand. This type of sand is known as “glass sand” and is used at many high-quality courses. Unfortunately this sand is so soft and fine that, instead of resisting the force of the club head and thus bounding it up toward the ball, it tends to pull the club head down, which prevents the explosion effect that you get with a normal bunker shot. As a result, you need a different shot for glass sand. 1. First, open the face of the wedge to allow the club’s rounded flange to create more of a bounce effect than it usually would. This will counteract the tendency of the sand to force the club head down too steep. 2. Take the club back on a fairly low trajectory, resisting the natural impulse to pick it up too sharply, and come into the ball from only a slight outside-in angle. The club head will not take a lot of sand, and so you won’t get much b
