The following drill will help you to get a feel for taking the golf club back in a more upright plane when playing out of the bunker. By taking the club back more abruptly, you increase your chances of getting under the ball properly and impacting the sand much more precisely.

Have a friend stand behind you in the sand and place a rake about two feet behind your ball, holding it at approximately a 450 angle.

The goal here is to get you to swing up the rake handle and feel as though your bunker backswing is steeper than that of a normal swing.

Take several swings like this and soon you'll hit high, soft shots from the bunker.