Sometimes it does. The key is that the bunkers are different on all courses so you have to get used to each of them. At Kiawah you might be in what is called hard sand, that plays much like the fairway, maybe 10% decrease in distance at the most. Some of the bunkers play easy, some impossible, the key is the lie that you are shown, that is the amount of the ball that is below the top of the sand, the more buried the harder to play. Practice is the key and notes since each course is very different.