This isn’t necessarily the “best advice” but too many golfers hit too far behind the golf ball. The game’s best bunker players risk catching too much ball because they hit very, very close to the golf ball. If you’ve heard that you should hit a dollar bill behind the ball, cut that at least in half: I like to have players hit only about 1″ behind the golf ball. If the dollar bill is the size of the divot out of good, firm sand, the ball is well back of the center of that dollar bill, with most of the bill on the front side.