Bill
I still think that's bunk about yardages and uncertainty. Most courses these days also use colored flags to indicate position on the green and on your home course you should be able to tell where the flag is from experience. That foreshadowing bunker should leave the same doubt to a players visual system regardless of how he got the yardage. There is no excuse to be fooled by a bunker well short of the green.
Then why has this been one of the dominant architectural features of golf design since its inception? Wasn't Donald Ross famous for this sort of deception. I don't know why he would have bothered since it obviously doesn't work.
Andrew also didn't specify "your home course," and I was talking in generalities about "the golfer," not me personally.
Not sure why this range finder thing is jammed so tightly up your backside, but it sure seems to be! I'll just keep my opinion and you keep yours!
Why? Because it give no advantage due to the fact that its common knowledge about a course if a player chooses to use it
regardless of how he/she obtains the information- That's why. You Luddite lovers are so selective in you love of technology.
Please answer the following
Do you use a new Titanium driver?
Do you ever take a golf cart?
Do you ever look at a scorecard for yardage?
Do you ever look at irrigation heads?
Do you use new technology golf balls (proV1, Callaway HX tour etc)?
Do you play blade irons?
Do you carry a hybrid?
Do you travel by airplane or stagecoach to play golf?
I could go on - the point is that you are a hypocrite on the issue of technology.
Foreshadowing bunkers play a role well beyond deception that is also useless in most of today's golf courses. They were designed when there was no irrigation and conditions dictated that a ball just carry them to roll foward and stay on the green. If you carried the ball all the way to teh green in pre-irrigation times the ball would bounce through the green. They effectively played as if they were up against the greens surface. Therefore your argument on this point is bunk as well.