Hitting from a greenside bunker is challenging under any circumstance, but adding a downhill slope adds fuel to the fire. When the ball is below your feet on a downward slope, even solid fundamentals ...

GOLF Top 100 Teacher Tommy O'Brien Jr. explains a huge mistake he sees golfers make from the sand - and shares an easy fix.

In this video, short game guru Dan Grieve gives 25-handicap golfer Richard Baker a lesson on bunker shot basics. Richard really struggles to get out of the sand consistently, so was hoping that Dan ...

Golfers tend to fall into one of two camps: They either love the sand, or they avoid it at all costs. I've been on both sides. In college - and for years before that - I really struggled out of ...

Oh the sand! Great when sand is mixed with surfing but not so great when you cant see the flag. Every year I play in a golf tournament called The Scottsdale Media Classic. Fifty to seventy-five golf ...

Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you become a smarter, better golfer. Controlling your distance from greenside bunkers can be challenging for the ...

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 ...

Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you become a smarter, better golfer. Bunker shots are some of the most difficult shots recreational golfers face in any ...

"Mid to high handicappers have little to no shaft lean with every club in the bag. So when they get into the bunker, the same ...

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 ...

While playing golf for the first time in six(!) months the other day, I bombed my tee shot on the 13th hole down the left side of the fairway, but, unfortunately, watched it roll into a fairway bunker ...