"Ghost bunkers"?

[Matt_Cohn]

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]

It's a new term to me, although I'm guess the writer heard it somewhere instead of just inventing it himself.

[Kalen Braley]

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]

Matt, I'm interpreting it as a bunker that disappears when you look back on the hole.

[Jeff_Brauer]

My first thought was a former sand bunker grassed over?

[Kalen Braley]

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]

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]

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...

[Matt_Cohn]

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.