Bare lie, what to do...

[tball88]

First of all Yoda, I'm excited about your website. I haven't had a chance to get back to Marietta, but I've got all the notes from my lesson, and still read them all the time, besides playing with the dowels and badmitten racquets. Anyway, came across a shot on Friday on the 18th hole and had no idea what to do... bare lie, had to carry a bunker, with about 15-20 feet of green to work with before getting to the pin. I thought about a lob shot, but was scared to death I couldn't get under the ball and would thin it long, anyway decided on a punch chip, decelerated and hit it into the bunker, walked away with double bogey.

What do you guys recommend doing when you have a bare lie and have to get the ball up quickly and stop it relatively quickly.

Take care Yoda and best of luck with the site(Thomas Ballard)