... and open clubface encourages you to use the club’s bounce, making it easy to take a shallow cut of sand to cushion the ball on its way to the target. Judging distance, for most, is the tricky part of the equation.
The majority of the world-class players we see here at ChampionsGate in Orlando work on the principle of making a (consistent) three-quarter length backswing, and then control their distance with the length of the follow through for a short pop-up type shot, they skim that open clubface through the sand to a relatively short follow through position, as I have demonstrated here.
The arms and hands are actually slowing down through impact; it is the momentum of the clubhead that takes care of business. Note that the clubface remains wide open (i.e. the face is looking straight up towards the sky) as I arrive at this deliberately short finish and all the while maintaining a very solid lower base.