I played golf with a lovely woman recently who confessed that she’s spent over two hundred hours in golf lessons trying to master the bunker shot - and she’s still failing. Such is her fear of sand ...

When I was a child learning to play golf, my father and I used to spend a fair amount of our practice time together hitting out of bunkers. I never questioned his methods but in hindsight he was ...

Not the greenside bunker... put me down for a double bogey! Why do greenside bunker shots fill most club golfers with such fear? The answer is because a lot of weekend golfers have poor technique, ...

Bunker shots over a high lip are daunting for even the best players in the world. Follow these five steps to make them just a bit easier.

Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you become a smarter, better golfer. I’ve played muni golf all my life. I was never a country-club kid and even the ...

Phil Mickelson has offered some straightforward advice for amateur golfers who are struggling to get out of bunkers. Bunker play can be a real headache for many amateurs, but Mickelson, who is ...

Before we get into the details of how to get out of a greenside bunker—for the record, I wrote a book on it—watch me address and hit this shot in slow motion and see what your eyes pick up on. Did ...

PGA Tour stroke-play events are like marathons. Players off to the fastest starts don’t necessarily win. It’s about jockeying for position for that stretch run on the back nine on Sunday. We’ve never ...

There have been multiple incidents of tour pros being questioned or even penalized in recent years for events in bunkers, including one back in 2019 when a player trying to qualify for the European ...