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Just for conversation. Sure most all have a day when seems ya just cant find anything but a bunker. Sooo many times I've played when ither myself or anyone else in the foursome has one those days. With that said and when that happens do ya find it a bit disturbing when the golf course has no consistancy in conditions from one bunker to the next.?
When they may change sand in some and its a total different kind of sand from others. Then perhaps another is different from ither of those all on the same course. Taking wet weather out of the equation because that alone can cause a ton of inconsistancy. But in normal conditions, one bunker may have heavy sand while another is lighter. One may be softer and yet another hard as a rock. Or whatever the case.
One recent encounter was a day when two specific bunkers (that i hit into) had this new sand different from what they ever used before at my home course. At first ya just figured "hey great nice new sand" but than ya stand in it and its different from what they ever used before. This spacific sand was the lightest fluffiest smallest grain (almost salt like) sand that I ever experienced. I had just came out of a greenside bunker very nicely two holes earlier. On this one (first of two) the sand was so very extremely light that my club actually went under the ball and came out the other side like i went through air. The wierdest thing, like no resistance or nothing. I was like" what the heck kinda sand is this" Well the second one of these two types of bunkers, there were two of us in a bunker with this same kind of sand. The other guy did nearly the same thing I did earlier and also said "what the .....kind of crap is this" lol .
In the specific case I mentioned we really believed they must of made a mistake and put the wrong sand in these few bunkers but we never did ak about it so we dont really know. Have forgotten about them since and cooincidentaly havnt been back in them so dont know if still the same. Do you expect consistancy and feel they should keep them cosistant? Same sand etc...? Offer you similar conditions? Or do you like the challenges? Yes, its our fault we are in them but perhaps your in more than a few that day and all of a sudden out of the blue a couple of them totaly different world than others or worse the're all much too different in thier individual condition from one to another throughout the same course. .
When they may change sand in some and its a total different kind of sand from others. Then perhaps another is different from ither of those all on the same course. Taking wet weather out of the equation because that alone can cause a ton of inconsistancy. But in normal conditions, one bunker may have heavy sand while another is lighter. One may be softer and yet another hard as a rock. Or whatever the case.
One recent encounter was a day when two specific bunkers (that i hit into) had this new sand different from what they ever used before at my home course. At first ya just figured "hey great nice new sand" but than ya stand in it and its different from what they ever used before. This spacific sand was the lightest fluffiest smallest grain (almost salt like) sand that I ever experienced. I had just came out of a greenside bunker very nicely two holes earlier. On this one (first of two) the sand was so very extremely light that my club actually went under the ball and came out the other side like i went through air. The wierdest thing, like no resistance or nothing. I was like" what the heck kinda sand is this" Well the second one of these two types of bunkers, there were two of us in a bunker with this same kind of sand. The other guy did nearly the same thing I did earlier and also said "what the .....kind of crap is this" lol .
In the specific case I mentioned we really believed they must of made a mistake and put the wrong sand in these few bunkers but we never did ak about it so we dont really know. Have forgotten about them since and cooincidentaly havnt been back in them so dont know if still the same. Do you expect consistancy and feel they should keep them cosistant? Same sand etc...? Offer you similar conditions? Or do you like the challenges? Yes, its our fault we are in them but perhaps your in more than a few that day and all of a sudden out of the blue a couple of them totaly different world than others or worse the're all much too different in thier individual condition from one to another throughout the same course. .