Which would you prefer?

[rich1981]

Watching golf on TV you can guarantee that the commentators will mention, at least once, that a player will be happy to have landed in a green side bunker rather than the green side rough. I appreciate this is because the top players find it much easier to control spin etc out of the sand but what about us amateurs?

Where would you prefer your ball to be out of the two?

Personally as soon as I see my ball disappear into a bunker I am already adding a couple of shots to the the hole in my mind.

 

[Alex1975]

I want it in the greenside rough rather than bunker. I am not going to try and spin it so if a little grass gets between the club and ball it should not be the thing that messes the shot up. Our bunkers and the weather are just not conducive to consistent shots. (that my excuse and I am sticking to it)

 

[pokerjoke]

For me it depends.
A bunker with good sand consistency and a good lie is a fairly easy shot.
Getting out is no problem.
Hard packed and downhill,this is a very tough shot.
A lie in the deep rough sitting down and short sided is a lottery to us ameteurs.
Also a lot of the pros on a very long par 5s are happy in the bunker as there so good
at up and downs its a birdie all day.
For me I would prefer a good lie around the green as apposed to a bunker.

 

[Slab]

Deep steep faced bunker for me

Not because I can control etc to any great extend more than I am more confident it hitting a full shot out of sand than the rough and I can generally get it out and hold the green better than out of 3 or 4 inch rough which would prob end up being 8iron dunt n run

 

[G.U.R]

Rough please, for exactly the same reason as you Rich. I should really do a lot more bunker practise I suppose.

 

[GB72]

Rough would be my option. I am good enough at bunker play having had a lesson on just that but I am still more confident out of the rough in most circumstances.

 

[rich1981]

Rough please, for exactly the same reason as you Rich. I should really do a lot more bunker practise I suppose.

Yeah I am very quick to moan about how bad I am out of bunkers but I never practice them. No helping some people!

 

[bladeplayer]

bunker provided its decent quality sand for me

 

[Birchy]

Bunker as long as it in decent nick and not stupidly downhill.
Easier to stop the ball closer imo although I can play all shots equally as bad on my day

 

[Liverbirdie]

There are bunkers and there are BUNKERS. If in a large one with a decent lie, a bunker. If its a small pot bunker - the rough.

 

[One Planer]

I'd prefer to be on the green

 

[m9wst]

Playing on the courses the pros play on i'll take the bunker shot - the bunkers are always in near perfect condition and the green side rough always looks very thick.
Playing at a 'normal' course i'll take the rough - generally the bunkers are good at Thetford but certain ones either lack sand or contain stones and the rough isn't anywhere near as bad as it looks on tv. I'll get up and down more times from green side rough than i will green side bunkers.

 

[davidy233]

Bunker for me at the moment, even a nasty wee pot one - my sand play is the most consistent part of my game at the moment. I've been deliberately aiming for the sand while out having a practice on the course - mind you we don't really have greenside rough - where there's rough near the green it's six inch tangly jungle

 

[Break90]

I'd go for the bunker I think, unless it's not been raked and I'm in a footprint.

 

[Duckster]

If we're talking about the length of rough that the PGA tour players have to deal with, then I'd take bunker every day of the week.

Played in Mexico last year at a course that was being set up to tour standards. Bunkers may have been huge and deep but the rough round the greens was 2 to 3 inches deep. You were lucky to find your ball let alone hit it out.

Tour players make it look easy.

 

[patricks148]

not that bothered, myself either i'm fine with.

Though i don't like piddly little parkland bunker, ive me a big deep pt bunker and day.... as lond as i'm not plugged in the face

 

[rich1981]

If we're talking about the length of rough that the PGA tour players have to deal with, then I'd take bunker every day of the week.

Thinking more of the rough we encounter at standard courses, although I appreciate that this can vary greatly from one course to the next. As for the Tour players making it look easy, we can safely say they do that in pretty much every facet of the game....show offs.

my sand play is the most consistent part of my game at the moment. I've been deliberately aiming for the sand while out having a practice on the course

I think that would be a surefire way of me never hitting a bunker again :lol:

 

[Duckster]

Thinking more of the rough we encounter at standard courses, although I appreciate that this can vary greatly from one course to the next. :

For our standard then I'd go for the rough. Purely as I'm flamin awful at bunker shots unless the sands all nice and "fluffy". Which it hardly ever is at ours.

Really was an eye opener with the rough though. In some places it was 3 inches deep and that was only a foot away from the putting surface. Mental.

 

[upsidedown]

As mentioned above, if consistent sand then Bunker for me.

 

[Leereed]

Rough for me too.our bunkers are crap no sand in middle and rock hard, and loads of sand at the front and back.As people can't rake sand back into the middle.