people that dont rake bunkers properly !!!!

[SAPCOR1]

Found the bunker six times today and thankfully no sign of the previous occupants apart from the rake marks.

Plenty of divots lying very close to the disturbed turf though, that really does annoy me, nothing short of laziness for that and not raking the bunker.

 

[daymond]

Just a note to say if there's any sign of frost in the greens you should not repair any pitch marks.

 

[19thagain]

Read through this and you will find the usual culprits, in certain posters opinions, the newbies, the oldies, the visitors - we have not YET had the ladies mentioned but it will happen!!

When oh when will golfers realise that ALL types of people make up memberships of golf clubs and amongst them .... you have guessed it .... lazy blighters that leave the raking to others!

To define them as a specific type is unfair and only provides the reader with an insight into the posters biased views!!

 

[Region3]

It annoys me that most people just rake towards themselves as they back out of the bunker, which pulls all the sand to the edge and leaves nothing in the middle.

I was in a greenside bunker on Saturday about 2' from the left edge. Settled my feet in to what felt like plenty of sand so tried to play a proper bunker shot. There was about 3mm of sand under my ball, the club bounced off the hard packed stuff underneath and I airmailed the green. Not happy.

Also, those cheap plastic rakes don't help. There's no weight in them to break up the hard stuff just underneath the surface.

 

[Slab]

^^^^^^^^^^
Unless its like clay or frozen could you really rake the sand and move any discernible amount from one area of the bunker to another?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

The last bunch. I very much doubt unraked bunkers has ever ACTUALLY cost anyone 3 points a round.

Because in general the bunkers are raked. It is just the occasional unraked footprints etc that will cause someone a problem - and that is why we complain - it feels (and is) unfair - it's an unlucky break (and that's golf for you) but it feels unfair. But if all bunkers were completely unraked? Not sure I'd like to be at the back of the field faced with 18 holes where no one has raked a single bunker all day. I suspect that every bunker would be a complete mess (relative) and that every time you went in one it would be at best 50/50 that you'd end up 1 pt less for that hole than if the bunker had been raked.

So do I go in six or more bunkers in a round - sometimes absolutely I do.

 

[CMAC]

I even rake the practice bunker before I leave it.

It's about standards and upbringing, I was taught from a teenager.

New 'adults' to golf club membership should have to undertake a basic 'highway code' before being allowed to play the course for the first time. We'll all reap the benefits of that :thup:

 

[Birchy]

Because in general the bunkers are raked. It is just the occasional unraked footprints etc that will cause someone a problem - and that is why we complain - it feels (and is) unfair - it's an unlucky break (and that's golf for you) but it feels unfair. But if all bunkers were completely unraked? Not sure I'd like to be at the back of the field faced with 18 holes where no one has raked a single bunker all day. I suspect that every bunker would be a complete mess (relative) and that every time you went in one it would be at best 50/50 that you'd end up 1 pt less for that hole than if the bunker had been raked.

So do I go in six or more bunkers in a round - sometimes absolutely I do.

After going in a bunker 8 times on Saturday im thinking of taking my own rake around next time. I went in more bunkers than Adolf Hitler

 

[patricks148]

We have a few at my club that don’t play out of the bunkers, they just walk in and chuck their ball out and think because they don’t play out of them no one else does either.

Followed 3 of them the other week and watched them do it on the last 3 holes, it didn’t even cross there minds they should rake them!

 

[dufferman]

I have to say... an I am prepared for the onslaught I am about to bring upon myself...

I don't always rake the bunkers. But let me tell you why. One course in particular I play doesn't have 'real' bunkers, they have builders sand bunkers. With stones, rocks, and barely have enough sand in them to cover the rock solid ground beneath them. Why bother raking that? It's not going to make a blind bit of difference.

Other courses I play with 'real' bunkers - of course I rake them. I guess if it's worth raking, it should be raked.

 

[SyR]

In recent years I've found that bunkers are not being raked every morning by the greenkeppers at a lot of the clubs I've played and especially in the winter months. I'm sure this is to save time/money but I think this results in some people not bothering to rake the bunker once they are done.

 

[North Mimms]

Theoretically we are lucky at my club that all the bunkers get perfectly raked most mornings by the green staff.

The bad news is that A LOT of members seem to think that absolves the golfers from having to rake them!

We have no pay and play, and no societies.
So the rubbbish state of our bunkers and greens is totally down to lazy members:sbox:

 

[chrisd]

After going in 6 greenside bunkers yesterday I now have contracted the disease that rots camels feet!

I moved more sand than a builder does in a week - it's not me that leaves it in a mess - ok!

 

[stevie_r]

New 'adults' to golf club membership should have to undertake a basic 'highway code' before being allowed to play the course for the first time. We'll all reap the benefits of that :thup:

I firmly believe that that would achieve very little. The general consensus would appear to be (and certainly at my club) that the major problem is with lazy established members, not visitors and not 'newbies'.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Never played with anyone who hasn't been prepared to rake a bunker if they are in it and I wouldn't let them get away with it if they tried. It seems most members at my place are prepared to rake as I've never had any issues. Pitch marks on the greens are a different ball game. Most of my partners in the roll ups do repair but so many marks on the greens at the moment show not everyone is as like minded