Course conditions or talent issues?

[SugarPenguin]

Yeah its mainly to do with the wet weather i think most are fine(ish).

cheap courses there can be problems. I found half a brick in one couple months back.

On the other hand I think I would get up and down a bit more if the sand quality was like the ones they get on tour.

 

[3565]

Easy, tell him to go and sort the bunkers out himself and give the green keepers a hand for a day and I'll gaurentee he won't moan about them again. In fact I think members SHOULD go and help them, even for half a day, it will stop the critising of the greenkeepers and have more appreciation for what they do.

 

[fundy]

Easy, tell him to go and sort the bunkers out himself and give the green keepers a hand for a day and I'll gaurentee he won't moan about them again. In fact I think members SHOULD go and help them, even for half a day, it will stop the critising of the greenkeepers and have more appreciation for what they do.

surely that depends on the greenstaff? I have helped out a few times at a couple of different courses, one set I would never hear a bad word against, the other I was pretty critical of. Not all greenstaffs are equal!

 

[londonlewis]

The one thing that would annoy me is inconsistent amounts of sand in a bunker. I.e. one bunker has sand inches deep. The next just has a shallow layer.
So you end up not knowing how to play your shot.

 

[dufferman]

An opposite view of most on this thread - what grates me is when one bunker is full of light, fluffy, 2 inch deep sand, then the next hole has 2mm of rubble in it. There's no way of practicing when the bunkers are so vastly different. When there's hardly any sand in them at all - which is often the case at my place - and you're paying out of a clay pit, it's almost impossible to play!

Saying all that - there's nothing like finding yourself in a fairway bunker with no sand in it. Play it like a fairway shot and off you go!!

 

[Senseicads]

Our bunkers are really bad to be honest. It is the only real gripe I have with the course. A lot of the bunkers contain stones which are destined to chip away at my club and the sand is almost like concrete most of the time. It is the one thing I would change!

 

[clubchamp98]

Our bunkers are really bad to be honest. It is the only real gripe I have with the course. A lot of the bunkers contain stones which are destined to chip away at my club and the sand is almost like concrete most of the time. It is the one thing I would change!

Ours were like this until they fitted liners they do stop stones coming up .
The problem is if the sand is a bits shallow you can't get under the ball and semi thin it .
Horrible things.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

The one thing that would annoy me is inconsistent amounts of sand in a bunker. I.e. one bunker has sand inches deep. The next just has a shallow layer.
So you end up not knowing how to play your shot.

My pet hate. We have some that you know will have no sand under the ball but others look fine until you try and play a standard bunker shot and the bounce skids on the bunker base. Can be a lottery when visiting some other clubs