For long, narrow bunkers nothing I've seen beats the cross bunker on the 17th at Muirfield. I don't have a picture but I recall someone posting one after the GCA meeting there early last year.
This one Mark? - No Tony. That is the tenth hole at Muirfield. The cross-bunkers on the second shot, some distance from the green.
I can see why you might find it memorable. - Yes Tony, that one (and see below)
Oh that’s why - No Tony, that is another bunker again (I think)
Mark Pearce, front row, second from right.
Tony Muldoon, tall bald head with coloured beard
James Bennett, tall bald head with yellow hat and grey beard (so that you can distinguish us).
I am glad Ed Getka wasn't there as well - it would be like the set of 'my three sons', or perhaps ''the three stooges'.
Here are 4 shots of the approach to #17 (par 5), and the coffin bunker on the right which is at the right length to catch the second shots of mere mortal golfers.
The first shot is the approach to the cross-bunkers, with green in background.
My partner showed great skill to 'lay-up' just short of the deepest (rhs) bunker. (edit - my bad. I just remembered that it was foursomes, so it was actually ME that 'laid-up' with consummate skill (and inability to carry the cross-bunkers). This was a critical hole in our close match, and so a critical, skillful shot eh Ace Bill/Phillip
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Here he is playing his third (edit, OUR third). Nice shot Andrew.
Phillip Gawith just wanted to try a shot from this bunker, so he threw a ball done and had a go. His technique is more about power, so the sod face got a cracking wallop with the first attempt. What was genuinely interesting was to see how this bunker can escalate problems. The second attempt was closer to the face, and a steeper higher face as well. The further to the right you progress in this bunker, literally the deeper you are into the coffin. In a stroke round, death can confront you on the 17th hole in the coffin bunker. Let the records note that Phillip was 0 for about three or four in attempts to get out.
James B