Conventional wisdom has it that bunkers in front of greens, at least on courses intended to play firm and fast, are a no-no. The idea is that any such bunker will discourage the ground game and is therefore a non-starter. There are exceptions but they are pretty rare and very unlikely to meet the front of the green.
But wait. In the days of hickory shafts, players were often asked to carry a bunker in order to find a green. Those old cops bunkers weren't all bad. Or if they weren't asked to carry that bunker, they were required to play their way around it. John Low may have been over egging it a bit when he suggested that any hole was automatically bad if the best place to be was in the middle of the fairway but if we truly want to promote the notion that width and angles are integral to good architecture, forcing places to make left/right choices from the tee, what would be so wrong about a small, lone bunker, or mound perhaps, in front of a green? There is surely no better way to get a player thinking.
Discuss.