Rake Placement in Bunker - Reader - I pulled up a FC

[bobmac]

Not really. I’ve never played with another person. I’d guess that you’d best be further from the flag then the players ball, out of line of sight? Ie, not in front, not square on, and not on the playing line.

Sounds about right

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Try playing the post instead of the poster!

What does that even mean? Playing what? Golf, football, mah jong and given your propensity for having issues with my posts perhaps take your own advice more often

 

[Deleted member 16999]

What does that even mean? Playing what? Golf, football, mah jong and given your propensity for having issues with my posts perhaps take your own advice more often

Still choosing not to answer the question though!

You were having a sly dig at SILH, dress it up and deflect as much as you like, there was no need for the comment you made.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Still choosing not to answer the question though!

You were having a sly dig at SILH, dress it up and deflect as much as you like, there was no need for the comment you made.

Nor you. What the hell is playing the post not the poster even mean. Just a random statement to have a "sly dig" which you and others have hurled around on a number of threads. Welcome to the ignore feature

 

[Deleted member 16999]

Nor you. What the hell is playing the post not the poster even mean. Just a random statement to have a "sly dig" which you and others have hurled around on a number of threads. Welcome to the ignore feature

Q. “What the hell is playing the post not the poster even mean”?

A. It’s when you answer a post purely because of the poster and not the post, ie You don’t actually read the post and you wouldn’t have answered the post if someone else rather SILH had posted.

P.S. All the ignoring in the world won’t stop me calling you out when your post makes no sense and you’re playing the poster.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

My point in my post #275 is nothing to do with where the rake is positioned - I was simply suggesting that as players we adhere to what a club asks.

In that context I don't give a monkey's where a club asks us to place a rake after use. In/Out/Roundabout a bunker; in the rake stand provided, or indeed hanging off the nearest tree, whatever the clubs asks then it is my view that we adhere to that request whatever we might think of it. Because the only thing I care about in respect of rakes when I play is that I find consistency.

 

[sunshine]

I have idea where rakes should be left. I’ve read several dozen golf books and watched hundreds of hours of YouTube videos over the last six months. It’s never been mentioned.

I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it

 

[sunshine]

Maybe idiots is too strong a word ? So I’ll call them inconsiderate - though where some players put rakes suggests a degree of stupidity or carelessness. But on the general point I have to disagree quite strongly.

If the club wishes all players to have consistency in how bunker rakes might influence their shots then players should adhere to the guidance provided. For a player to simply do whatever HE chooses to do leads to inconsistency - and surely all we look for in rub of the green is consistency. If I see a player put a rake in a position inconsistent with club guidelines then I move it. And also in passing a bunker if I see one so positioned then I move it to where the club requests. For me this is simply giving due consideration to players following me and so an aspect of etiquette.

And so full circle to post #1 ?

What about handling rakes potentially contaminated with corona virus? Maybe you should ask your club to provide hand gel next to each rake or introduce a temp local rule about not raking bunkers.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

What about handling rakes potentially contaminated with corona virus? Maybe you should ask your club to provide hand gel next to each rake or introduce a temp local rule about not raking bunkers.

My post has nothing to do with what my club asks btw - every club has this issue as we all pick up rakes by the handle...

I simply noted that if I see a rake placed in a position away from where the club asks - then I move it.

 

[Crow]

Apologies for dragging up an old thread (and there are any number of similar threads I could have chosen) but I had to add this option for bunker rakes that I'd not seen before, check the video at 4 mins 5 seconds!
(I guess I could have picked an "Only in America" thread too)

 

[clubchamp98]

Apologies for dragging up an old thread (and there are any number of similar threads I could have chosen) but I had to add this option for bunker rakes that I'd not seen before, check the video at 4 mins 5 seconds!
(I guess I could have picked an "Only in America" thread too)

That would just be full of water in this country.

 

[Crow]

That would just be full of water in this country.

Not if it was fitted with a small pump and a heater.

 

[BubbaP]

There you go @Crow

 

[Bunkermagnet]

There you go @Crow
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Leeds Castle used to have pop-up bunker rakes, which seemed to work very well. Sadly though, they are no longer in use.

 

[clubchamp98]

Not if it was fitted with a small pump and a heater.

Oh heated handle.

 

[sunshine]

Bluetooth heated rakes, with built in speakers, and a sensor connected to an app on your phone so you can monitor raking pressure and track your raking performance stats. That’s what we need.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I agree with you - but they don't.

On just about every hole for 36 hols I was putting rakes in the correct place (without slowly our play down...) - and the example I mention was the one where my FC was at fault - there were many other similar situations where a previous player had put the rake 'just so' and clearly no-one had pulled him up - and where no-one in any following group sorted the incorrect placement.

…and four years later I am still having to move rakes from stupid places they’ve been left by players or ignored by others in passing.

 

[Orikoru]

Maybe we should all be laying the rakes down across the front of bunkers to help each other out. Golf's hard enough.

 

[chrisd]

It seems to me that wherever one leaves a bunker rake someone is inevitably going to find it in " the wrong place:" so either leave it in the designated place, as required by the club, or, if there isn't one, just lay it anywhere, in or near, the bunker and let lady luck play it's part for following golfers.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

It seems to me that wherever one leaves a bunker rake someone is inevitably going to find it in " the wrong place:" so either leave it in the designated place, as required by the club, or, if there isn't one, just lay it anywhere, in or near, the bunker and let lady luck play it's part for following golfers.

Though I’d suggest that in the bunker with handle lying immediately close to and along the most likely (usually tee or fairway) ‘entry’ side of a bunker or with rake head similarly positioned are the wrong places - and I find sooo many left in such a way