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Fairway bunkers.

• kingpin82 145 Posts

  Sat, Jun 23 2012 2:23 AM

  bfghd:

  Agree again.  Bunkers are meant to be hazards. They are not supposed to be an easy birdie if you find a fairway bunker.  Get out on the fairway and try to make par.

  I didn't say they were meant to be an easy birdie, im saying out of a 15-20% lie from between 150-170y should at least be a birdie chance....not an impossibility as it is atm.

  like i said i hit a 175 out of 15-20 bunker lie and it travels 135-140y.

  good feedback btw, some valid comments...i certainly dont want to make the game any easier. its just that a(particular) variety of fairway bunker shots dont quite add up.

   

• JaLaBar 1,254 Posts

  Sat, Jun 23 2012 9:34 AM

  Not sure what hole I was playing in alt shot on BPB, but my P hit into a bunker 175y from the pin, and suggested I wedge out to the fairway.  I chuckled and blasted an iron to 4' from the pin.  Much of the sand at BPB and Kiawah is playable.

• Yappy22 733 Posts

  Mon, Jun 25 2012 8:07 AM

  Why is it that some people think they have to tell you how to play a certain shot. I guess they think you have no clue how to play. I bet your P didn't ask how you played that nice shot out of the bunker. Was playing an AS the other night and the other team got in a big fight over one of them offering unasked for advice. One of them ended up forfeiting the game after 2 holes.  Silly.

• TarheelsRule 5,566 Posts

  Mon, Jun 25 2012 10:14 AM

  Part of the issue is the courses that we have on WGT.

  You mentioned that Ricky Fowler smashed a 6 iron out of a bunker onto the green, I think I saw the shot and it was at the Memphis tournament before the US Open.  The lips on the bunkers and the sand are the key.  Most of the BPB bunkers are too deep to play out of, almost all the STA and RSG are way too deep, just have to wedge back....which by the way is the same in real golf.  Oakmont and Congressional have deep bunkers as well.

  Kiawah has some bunkers with lips and some fairly flat ones.  The real key at Kiawah isn't the lips but the type of sand.  The sand at Kiawah is not what we think of as bunker sand but basically the sand from the beach, the course is built on sand dunes.  You can generally in real golf and on WGT play from those bunkers with long irons and lose about a club in distance, unless you are up against the lip of course.

  Basically WGT has some pretty tough courses meant to be played under US and British Open conditions.  You notice that during those tournaments you see a lot of wedges out of fairway bunkers and hacking out of the deep rough.

• Willsstrs 632 Posts

  Mon, Jul 9 2012 3:17 PM

  chris2345:

  No it would make the game more UNrealistic,  scores now are plenty low enough. We do not need the f/way bunkers made to play easier.

  The forums already include enough posts about the game being too easy.

  If you hit a bunker expect to scramble and try to save par. 

  I dont agree...I have not been in a fwy bunker in ages on WGT

  What I suggest-make the hitting area of the meter half the size for half the room for error...if you ding it, it comes out great, with about 5% taken off of it (like real life) but if you don't, it could go anywhere...it might take 1 stroke off of a top player's game in 50 rounds, while making the game much less frustrating for beginners! Sounds good, right? Today IRL I was playing with a guy who hit the IRL "ding" a lot (he was very good) and from 210 out he hit out of a fwy bunker with a 4 hybrid, landed on the green and it stuck right there! That was a "ding". Another guy was 160 out and he missed the "ding" by quite a bit and it barely got out of the fwy bunker! why not make it like that on WGT?

• Rohaley 35 Posts

  Fri, Jul 5 2013 7:25 AM

  I agree! We want realistic. When you go into a fairway bunker you are ALREADY punished...because now instaed of a 6 iron in..you hace to take a 4 iron...which is not going to hold to the green as well...all the math between the two clubs is to a disatvantage to the 4 iron? BUT to NOT be able to reach a green because of sand is UNREALISTIC period. Fix this WGT...it is down right stupid. Note-when you hit a fairway bunker you already lost distance??? Wake up you dummies :)