How many bunkers does your course have?

[Ye Olde Boomer]

We have 30 only 2 of them fairway. 5 holes have none.

We need more courses like that.
A few are interesting, too many are an irritation, and they're expensive to maintain properly.

 

[Voyager EMH]

Charnwood Forest has no bunkers.

Par 69 and CR 70.3 and SR 121

 

[chellie]

Me and HID have been counting up and think we have 111. Some have been filled in as well recently.

 

[Pathetic Shark]

45 with some filled-in recently as redundant. Chart Hills famously had 300+ but the many different owners soon realised the cost of their upkeep and got rid of a lot of them. Royal Ashdown Forest has none, Epsom has one or two right by the 18th green as it is the only land they actually own.

 

[Mandofred]

I would think more golf courses would do something like this to substitute for bunkers.

Bumps on the Golf Course © Des Blenkinsopp cc-by-sa/2.0

Nicely mown earthworks on Huntercombe golf course. The golf course is on Nuffield Common and in theory is all access land with a right to roam all over it. But it's polite to keep to the Ridgeway which crosses it on a waymarked route.

www.geograph.org.uk

 

[KenL]

Those are a pain. Often boggy as they hold water. Also a lot of effort for GKs to mow.

 

[jim8flog]

currently 40 but some are due for removal we had already removed several and built others.
Our course was built in the middle of the last century and quite a few fairway bunkers do not suit the modern game.

 

[3 jabber]

Ashdown forest is another course without bunkers from memory.

Correct but they make up for it by playing foursomes and wearing long stockings.

 

[mikejohnchapman]

We arguably have too many at over 80. The club approached the designer to see if we could remove some and after charging a consultancy fee they said no (if you still want to refer to it as an XXX designed course).

At least 12 are either redundant due to equipment changes, superfluous or just badly positioned. I would have votes to get rid but apparently his name was worth keeping.

 

[Canfordhacker]

Rushmore on the Wiltshire/Dorset border has 9 holes in each county. Only the holes in Dorset have bunkers on them.

 

[Backache]

Correct but they make up for it by playing foursomes and wearing long stockings.

I quite enjoy foursomes particularly in winter, but my legs should never be seen in private so long stockings are superfluous as I don't wear shorts.

 

[Patster1969]

65.
I've just joined, but in the 3 rounds I've had there, I've been in the same bunker off the 14th tee all 3 times!

There's a hole at mine which has a bunker at the front of the 16th green, with the green kidney shaped around it - I've only been there since April and I must have been in that bunker about 6 times, with 3 of those plugged in the face after coming up about a yard short. It's quite a "short" green but wide, with a thick bush about a yard off the back - haven't quite mastered that one yet

 

[sunshine]

We arguably have too many at over 80. The club approached the designer to see if we could remove some and after charging a consultancy fee they said no (if you still want to refer to it as an XXX designed course).

At least 12 are either redundant due to equipment changes, superfluous or just badly positioned. I would have votes to get rid but apparently his name was worth keeping.

Why is your course XXX? Is it designed by a porn star?

 

[patricks148]

Nairn had close to 200 at one point reduced over the years, but now down to about 100 i think, Prior to the M&H update in 2017 there 120 ish

 

[splashtryagain]

No longer at Hexham?

Hexham as well

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Charnwood Forest has no bunkers.

Par 69 and CR 70.3 and SR 121

Neither Minchinhampton Common (Old). Mind…it’s got plenty of cattle and hence cattle ordure

 

[jim8flog]

Rushmore on the Wiltshire/Dorset border has 9 holes in each county. Only the holes in Dorset have bunkers on them.

That was a 'planning' decision. Something to with conservation and the status of the land.
Same reason on certain holes you feel as if certain trees interfere with the normal line of play.

 

[wull]

Ours is dependent on course rotation. We have three 9’s with a main 18 in play and a spare 9. It rotates every so often so for example if the main 18 is Naemoor/Cowden it is 31 bunkers. If it’s Arndean/Cowden then it is 22 bunkers.

Arndean has 11 bunkers
Cowden has 11 bunkers
Naemoor has 20 bunkers