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Playing Lessons Xtra: Bunker Shots with Sophia Popov

InstructorJim "Bones" Mackay
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Playing Lessons Xtra: Bunker Shots with Sophia Popov
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Playing Lessons Xtra: Bunker Shots with Sophia Popov

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2020 AIG Women’s Open champion, Sophia Popov, demonstrates how she thinks her way through and then executes a bunker shot. Watch full episodes of Playing Lessons on Golf Channel, Tuesdays at 7 PM ET.

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