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Bunker

November 24th, 2025

Watch Nelly Korda’s incredible bunker hole-out for eagle at the LPGA’s Tour Championship

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August 22nd, 2025

Watch Rory McIlroy bounce his greenside bunker shot at 18 off the bleachers and back onto the green to set up INSANE birdie

Even Scottie Scheffler had to break out into a broad smile after watching his playing partner, Rory McIlroy, convert a 17-foot birdie putt on the home hole at East Lake Golf Club Thursday afternoon.

May 3rd, 2025

Ask A Super: Pro golfers do this every time they leave a bunker, but do you really need to?

From an agronomic perspective, does it really matter if we keep bunker sand off the greens?

April 15th, 2025

A day after Masters disappointment, Bryson DeChambeau back at Pinehurst to recreate winning bunker shot

Mere hours after shooting a final-round 75 in the final group of the Masters to tie for fifth place, four shots behind Rory McIlroy, Bryson DeChambeau was at Pinehurst Resort to commemorate his epic bunker shot that helped him win the US Open last summer … over Rory McIlroy.

March 7th, 2025

Rory McIlroy couldn’t have made this fried-egg bunker shot look any easier

Every golfer knows the feeling of finding out your golf ball in a fried-egg lie in the bunker.

February 27th, 2025

Ask A Super: Should I Leave Bunker Rakes Inside Or Outside The Sand?

British Open 2024: Watch Johnson Wagner get buried alive in Royal Troon’s coffin bunker with Wyndham Clark on the call

July 17th, 2024

Open Championship 2024: Watch Johnson Wagner get buried alive in Royal Troon’s coffin bunker

Another major week is upon us and that means Golf Channel crash-test dummy Johnson Wagner is zipping up the fire suit, taking out a second life insurance policy and getting ready to step into the breach once again.

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August 5th, 2023

Watch Hideki Matsuyama get absolutely BRUTALISED by Wyndham Championship bunker

It’s beach season in the US. All across America, people are shoving their toes in the sand, ready to forget their troubles for a few sunny hours of rest and relaxation. Well, except for Hideki Matsuyama.

April 8th, 2023

Masters 2023: Watch Cam Smith smash fairway wood FROM BUNKER(!), complete OUTRAGEOUS EAGLE

This will surely go down as a contender for shot of the year.

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March 30th, 2023

The clever practice hack Seve Ballesteros used to prepare for the Masters

The legend of how Seve Ballesteros came to be is well known, but never gets old.

Open Championship 2022: Watch Rory McIlroy’s ridiculous bunker-busting hole-out – and the Twitter reaction that followed

Thomas Bjorn had an all-time reaction after getting an all-time lucky break

Masters 2022: Rory McIlroy and Collin Morikawa delivered ALL-TIME reactions after holing bunker shots on 18th hole

Watch this tour player use his putter for a bunker shot – with DISASTROUS results

Open Championship 2021: Francesco Molinari’s quadruple-bogey 7 is the most painful video you’ll see this week

US Open 2021: Justin Thomas nearly falls backwards into bunker, recovers to ‘reel in’ chaotic par save like prize tuna

April 9th, 2021

Masters 2021: Abraham Ancer hit with two-stroke penalty after signing card

The tournament announced the decision after the rules committee reviewed video evidence, and after Ancer signed his scorecard and exited the scoring area.

October 12th, 2020

Watch Martin Laird make the most incredible eagle by holing this impossible-looking bunker shot

You need a few breaks to win a PGA Tour event. Should Maritn Laird, winless in the last seven years on tour, take the title the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open on Sunday, we know the break he can point to, without a doubt.

June 22nd, 2020

This conversation about a crab between Rory and Bubba is the best case for mic’d up players

Outstanding stuff from this trio, as well as from Watson’s caddie Ted Scott.

June 19th, 2020

Mic’d up golfer’s confession of an accidental rules violation is kind of heartbreaking

Playing the par-4 13th hole at Harbour Town Golf Links, the Canadian had hit his drive into a fairway bunker. That’s when the drama started.

April 18th, 2020

FIGHTING WORDS: Breaking down the 7 most disputed terms in golf

I’m here to examine the most prominent debates, and then, using the solemn power vested in me by the Golf Digest byline, to declare a victor once and for all. The decisions that follow will be binding.

March 30th, 2020

Did you know: Gene Sarazen designed the modern sand wedge with an assist from billionaire Howard Hughes

Long before the Alien or C3i sand wedges were hawked on infomercials, promising an automatic out from the bunker, Gene Sarazen was on the case, seeking a better method of escape from such hazards.

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