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 shots ruining her scorecard that she’s now deliberately aiming away from greens to avoid the scenario of missing the putting surface and ending instead in a greenside trap.
When she lands in a bunker she has to take a penalty drop to get out. It was the destruction of her scorecard that day and it brought her to tears. She’s a very capable player with a fabulous long game tee to green and a lovely putting stroke, but bunkers have become the bain of her life.
