Cos / Tom
I wonder if I could expand this thread and ask , " what about bunkers that dont trap and the ball doesnt pop out the far side " ?.
I have played several times a course on the Eastern Seabord of Thailand called Khao Kheow CC . Designed by Perry Dye ( or Dye Designs inc.) , it has been built as a copycat of some of Pete Dyes famous holes , including a copy of Sawgrass's 17th Island Green .
So a lot of the course is built in a Stadium style , especially around the greens where bunkers are built into mounds . But the bunkers are very flat and shallow and with firm sand , I find that a lot of balls bounce in the bunker then career up onto the front of these mounds .
I remember having a particulary bad day and 75% of my shots that I would be expecting to be playing from sand , had me playing the ball at shoulder height on steep banking , with water on the other side of the green , I did not have an enjoyable day .
To someone who plays most of his golf in Scotland , I find this situation strange (I am trying not to use the word unfair) . I would expect one of these lies , once a season in Scotland , not half a dozen times in a round , as on this course .
To my untrained eye , surely the bunkers should have been built deeper , and is this not a case where the bunkers should hold the ball after it has entered the hazard ?