This course is a joke. If you hit a ball into the sand, it's impossible to predict what kind of distance (if any) you'll get hitting out of it. Most of the time you're lucky if you can get 25 yards out of a shot.
They should just give you the option of picking up and going to the next hole, once your ball is in the sand.
Not that you can't help but hit into the sand in the first place....you can ding drives and the sand will still attract the ball like a magnet.
As a matter of fact, fairway bunkers in this game are a joke. It's impossible to get any kind of distance out or a fairway bunker shot.....may as well just chip it out and take your one stroke penalty. That's not what I see when I'm watching the PGA or LPGA.