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Matt_Cohn

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"Ghost bunkers"?
« on: September 24, 2019, 02:07:21 PM »
This term appears twice on the PGA Tour website's descriptions of Silverado. Them seem to mean a bunker well short of a green that looks like it's right next to the green. Is this a real term?






Tom_Doak

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Re: "Ghost bunkers"?
« Reply #1 on: September 24, 2019, 03:04:18 PM »
It's a new term to me, although I'm guess the writer heard it somewhere instead of just inventing it himself.

Kalen Braley

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Re: "Ghost bunkers"?
« Reply #2 on: September 24, 2019, 03:05:12 PM »
Sounds like a relative new graduate with a tech degree tasked to putting this section together.  Probably never played a round of golf before starting this job, but has been in enough meetings to be buzz-word compliant.  Now tryna leave his mark somewhere...  ;)




Adam Clayman

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Re: "Ghost bunkers"?
« Reply #3 on: September 24, 2019, 03:55:36 PM »
Matt, I'm interpreting it as a bunker that disappears when you look back on the hole.
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Jeff_Brauer

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Re: "Ghost bunkers"?
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2019, 04:25:17 PM »
My first thought was a former sand bunker grassed over?
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Kalen Braley

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Re: "Ghost bunkers"?
« Reply #5 on: September 24, 2019, 04:31:38 PM »
Matt, I'm interpreting it as a bunker that disappears when you look back on the hole.


Dr. MacK was the original Casper then, cause he made a ton of these....

Ira Fishman

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Re: "Ghost bunkers"?
« Reply #6 on: September 24, 2019, 04:43:43 PM »
The magic of the World Wide Web produced nothing.  But a very cool story in the New Yorker about Askernish entitled "The Ghost Course" did pop up.


Ira

Duncan Cheslett

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Re: "Ghost bunkers"?
« Reply #7 on: September 24, 2019, 10:35:42 PM »
My first thought was a former sand bunker grassed over?


I heard architect Jonathan Gaunt use the phrase "ghost bunker" a few months ago. He was referring to a grassed over former sand bunker.


I assumed it was an accepted term in archy circles...
« Last Edit: September 24, 2019, 10:38:27 PM by Duncan Cheslett »

Matt_Cohn

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Re: "Ghost bunkers"?
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2019, 10:01:39 PM »
My first thought was a former sand bunker grassed over?


I heard architect Jonathan Gaunt use the phrase "ghost bunker" a few months ago. He was referring to a grassed over former sand bunker.


I assumed it was an accepted term in archy circles...


That, if anything, is what I would think of as a "ghost bunker". But these are two bunkers with sand in them. I think whoever wrote these descriptions just made up the term.

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