You don’t get much stranger than the start Rory McIlroy had at the PGA Championship on Friday. Sitting five strokes off the lead and in need of some magic, McIlroy put his second shot on his first hole, the 10th, wide. Very wide. So far wide that this was his only option: Rory McIlroy’s wayward […]
Watch Rory McIlroy bounce a ridiculous shot along a cart path and through a bunker
August 22, 2017 by
Oakmont’s Church Pew bunker ranks among golf’s toughest features
June 15, 2016 by
The U.S. Open returns to Oakmont this week, bringing the infamous Church Pew bunkers back into the national spotlight. A series of ridges designed to bring you to your knees, the Church Pews rank among golf’s most notable features. In their honor, let’s consider more of the most challenging and distinctive features in golf. Church […]
PGA keeps same bunker rules in 2015 as 2010 at Whistling Straits
August 9, 2015 by
The bunker that was site of Dustin Johnson’s shocking demise on the 72nd hole of the 2010 PGA Championship may be covered, but the PGA of America will still apply the same definition of a bunker five years later at Whistling Straits. The PGA of America has already released and posted supplementary rules for next […]
Jordan Spieth recreated his famous bunker shot at the John Deere and holed it on his first try
June 4, 2014 by
Jordan Spieth has been the “it” kid in 2014, carding 13 top-25s this season and six top-10s, but maybe his most famous golf shot happened in 2013 when he needed to hole a bunker shot on his final hole at the John Deere to make a playoff. Spieth did just that, eventually winning the John […]
Matt Kuchar’s holed bunker shot on the 72nd hole won him the RBC Heritage
May 4, 2014 by
Matt Kuchar has made a habit of falling short in PGA Tour events this season, but that all changed on Sunday at the RBC Heritage thanks to an incredible shot on his final hole of the tournament. Just two weeks removed from a pitch shot that won the Shell Houston Open for Matt Jones, Kuchar […]
PGA Tour player shoos away alligator with a bunker rake
April 26, 2014 by
If there is one thing that golf gives us that no other sport can, it’s nature. The beautiful, undeniable, amazing outdoors that can, at times, scare us half to death. That is what would happen to most of us if we came up to an alligator as close as John Peterson did on Friday at […]
Ernie Els hits the early shot of the day on Friday at the Presidents Cup with this hole out from the bunker
October 5, 2013 by
One of the most used phrases in the match play format of golf is that you must expect your opponent to hole the next shot. It’s rather silly to think that the person is always going to be making full iron shots and long pitch shots, but it’s true that you can never let your […]
Adam Scott played Muirfield and had to hit a bunker shot left-handed
July 11, 2013 by
The British Open is a week away, and that means the world’s best are taking to Muirfield to get in a practice round or two before next Thursday. Justin Rose and Adam Scott were a couple of the pros that got in a practice round this week, and if there is one reminder on what […]
Look at how many people are working on this bunker at Merion Golf Club on Monday
June 11, 2013 by
No, the picture above is not a contest to see who can find Waldo first, that is an actual image from the 11th hole at Merion Golf Club on Monday. The site of this year’s U.S. Open, Merion has been hit with some pretty hard rains over the last few days and the USGA is […]
Jason Day holes out from the bunker on the second hole in the final round of the Masters
April 14, 2013 by
Sundays at the Masters always bring us fireworks, but usually it isn’t this early. That wasn’t the case with Jason Day, who made a lengthy birdie putt on the first hole and then found the greenside bunker on No. 2. Day plopped his second shot out of the sand, and watched it roll directly in […]
