How soft is Morrocan sand!!!!!

[Tiger]

Brendan Grace lost his tee shot in a bunker!!! WTF! Would never happen at my club. Much more likely it would ricochet out! http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/golf/17479501

Fair play to him for sticking his second tee shot to four feet. I wonder if he uttered the immortal three off the tee phrase "why didn't I do that the first time?"

 

[HomerJSimpson]

If we ever get any sand in our bunkers I might run the risk. Until then it is one place my ball isn't gong to try and hide from my machete like hacks at it

 

[need_my_wedge]

And Rock shooting 11 on the par 4 4th............my fantasy team really is in freefall, will change it next week and not bother any more.

 

[AxelBenito]

Our bunkers are like car park potholes, I would one day like to have a go in a proper bunker to see what all the fuss is about?

 

[Tiger]

Our bunkers are like car park potholes, I would one day like to have a go in a proper bunker to see what all the fuss is about?

I went in a couple of bunkers with real sand at Thetford. I actually found it easier to play because my club didn't bounce off the surface like I'd just hit a slab of concrete. You do have to strike much firmer in proper sand but I'd take it over our bunkers any day of the week and five times on Sunday

 

[AxelBenito]

And Rock shooting 11 on the par 4 4th............my fantasy team really is in freefall, will change it next week and not bother any more.

DETAILS OF ROCK’S 11 AT THE PAR FOUR , 4TH HOLE (copy and paste jobby)
1. Drive out of bounds over the barbed wire security fence
2. Penalty (Plays two provisional balls after first provisional finds bushes)
3. Finds his second resting in an ice plant
4. Fails to move his ball
5. Manages to move the ball two feet
6. Chips onto fairway and had 202-yards to the flag.
7. Lands 4-iron short of the green
8. Chip shot lands 10 foot past the flag.
9, 10 and 11 Three putts for an 11.

 

[bladeplayer]

Ours have been refilled ,, over filled , if it flies in rather than rolls in you can be sure it will be buried , feet sink (mayb thats my fault & not the sand tho) hopefuly it will settle down , at the min its a lottery ,

 

[thecraw]

Brendan Grace lost his tee shot in a bunker!!! WTF! Would never happen at my club. Much more likely it would ricochet out! http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/golf/17479501

Fair play to him for sticking his second tee shot to four feet. I wonder if he uttered the immortal three off the tee phrase "why didn't I do that the first time?"

I believe he missed his bogie putt from 4 feet. Seems to be some doubt if it actually went into the bunker or into the grass beside it.

 

[USER1999]

The best bunnkers I have ever been in were on the Brabazon at The Belfry. These are so well prepared, with just the right amount of pure white sand. So easy to play brilliant shots out of.

I often wonder if the tour didn't spend months getting bunkers prepped for the pro's, how good they would really be. It took something like 6 months work to prep the bunkers at The Grove for the WGC event. Our bubnkers just have some builders sand dumped in them once a year, if you are lucky.

 

[thecraw]

The best bunnkers I have ever been in were on the Brabazon at The Belfry. These are so well prepared, with just the right amount of pure white sand. So easy to play brilliant shots out of.

I often wonder if the tour didn't spend months getting bunkers prepped for the pro's, how good they would really be. It took something like 6 months work to prep the bunkers at The Grove for the WGC event. Our bubnkers just have some builders sand dumped in them once a year, if you are lucky.

What gets on my tits is when every bunker has a different consistency or depth of sand. If all bunkers are shallow and compacted then so be it. If however the next is soft deep and fluffy sand it becomes a lottery.

 

[USER1999]

Yep, consistency is every thing.

I love it when watching telly golf when the comentator waffles on about how amateurs are rubbish from the sand because they quit on the shot, or don't play it properly, when in fact, most of the time, no one could play out of the bunkers we get in. When was the last time a pro hit a rock the size of a babies head buried in the sand?

 

[papyt]

i have played a few courses in MORROCO and the sand at all of them is superb,don't forget this course is private and belongs to the king and is set up for tour players.On another note i played in a club near my home that was part of an experiment to fill the bunkers with powdered glass,this would let water run through and not get rock hard and always be fluffy,they where spot on and the best i have played out of but for some reason they have gone back to sand anyone else had this experience.

 

[Tiger]

Yep, consistency is every thing.

I love it when watching telly golf when the comentator waffles on about how amateurs are rubbish from the sand because they quit on the shot, or don't play it properly, when in fact, most of the time, no one could play out of the bunkers we get in. When was the last time a pro hit a rock the size of a babies head buried in the sand?

While we're on that subject I'd also like to see them putt on a blancmange, chip with a massive clump of grass behind the ball and pitch from a scraggy lie. Most pro golfers rip up a club course because of the length but I'd be fascinated to see them play Doral with dodgy greens, concrete bunkers and ropey fairways

 

[bigslice]

softer than moroccan brown:rofl: