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Michael Blake

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Re: Tiny bunkers
« Reply #25 on: August 22, 2008, 12:58:38 PM »
Quote from: Jeff_Brauer on August 22, 2008, 11:35:32 AM
Quote from: Jay Flemma on August 21, 2008, 06:39:24 PM
Dan, how about a picture of your hole?

That sounds like a sexual harrassment lawsuit waiting to happen!


I'm still laughing at that
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David Stamm

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Re: Tiny bunkers
« Reply #26 on: August 22, 2008, 01:19:25 PM »
Quote from: Joe Bausch on August 21, 2008, 01:49:52 PM
Quote from: Dan Herrmann on August 21, 2008, 01:29:15 PM
Thanks for all the great comments.

I too love them.  In fact, I recently found one I didn't know about after playing the course many times since we opened in '03.  Gil is really great with these babies!

Seems Gil has been using them for awhile now.  


Another example of Gil's use of them, ingeniously I might add, at Soule Park's 6th. At apprx. 315 yds, it added strategy off the tee for those that chose to lay up. Sadly, the knuckleheads that played there complained enough to have it removed.


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Keith Williams

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Re: Tiny bunkers
« Reply #27 on: August 22, 2008, 01:46:21 PM »
The Honors is littered with them.  Holes 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 with some of the ones on 1, 6 (pretty well known), 13 and 15 being downright microscopic.

The bird's eye available at http://maps.live.com/ shows the scale pretty well.

Keith.
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JSPayne

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Re: Tiny bunkers
« Reply #28 on: August 22, 2008, 02:32:24 PM »
I really wish I hadn't forgotten my camera at Monarch Dunes. The finishing holes there have some of the smallest, craziest bunkers I've ever seen. I was literally laughing out loud as I walked down the fairway and around the green.....but I wouldn't have been laughing if my shot had ended up in one!

One was so small that a normal size bunker rake was set in it, and it didn't even fit!

If there's any way that Art Fuller can take and post some pics of these bunkers, I'd appriciate it, as I'm sure many others intrigued by this thread would.  ;)
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Richard Boult

Re: Tiny bunkers
« Reply #29 on: August 22, 2008, 02:51:17 PM »
Quote from: JSPayne on August 22, 2008, 02:32:24 PM
I really wish I hadn't forgotten my camera at Monarch Dunes. The finishing holes there have some of the smallest, craziest bunkers I've ever seen. I was literally laughing out loud as I walked down the fairway and around the green.....but I wouldn't have been laughing if my shot had ended up in one!

One was so small that a normal size bunker rake was set in it, and it didn't even fit!

If there's any way that Art Fuller can take and post some pics of these bunkers, I'd appriciate it, as I'm sure many others intrigued by this thread would.  ;)

I'll plan to take a few pics next time out... last time I was in one of those tiny bunkers on 18 (about 4'x1'), I had to stand on the mound about 2 feet above my ball and hit it sideways towards the fairway. I managed to get the ball out, but struck the ball across the fairway into the grove of eucs.  By the time I was done, I think I shot a 10 (par 4).  They usually only come into play if you try to carry the mounds from the tee to catch the downhill left side of the fairway to get within chipping distance of the green (I've been pin high left of the green several times making for a 385 yard drive). Risky, but rewarding when you make it.
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Joe Bausch

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Re: Tiny bunkers
« Reply #30 on: August 22, 2008, 03:07:46 PM »
Quote from: Art Fuller on August 22, 2008, 02:51:17 PM
Quote from: JSPayne on August 22, 2008, 02:32:24 PM
I really wish I hadn't forgotten my camera at Monarch Dunes. The finishing holes there have some of the smallest, craziest bunkers I've ever seen. I was literally laughing out loud as I walked down the fairway and around the green.....but I wouldn't have been laughing if my shot had ended up in one!

One was so small that a normal size bunker rake was set in it, and it didn't even fit!

If there's any way that Art Fuller can take and post some pics of these bunkers, I'd appriciate it, as I'm sure many others intrigued by this thread would.  ;)

I'll plan to take a few pics next time out... last time I was in one of those tiny bunkers on 18 (about 4'x1'), I had to stand on the mound about 2 feet above my ball and hit it sideways towards the fairway. I managed to get the ball out, but struck the ball across the fairway into the grove of eucs.  By the time I was done, I think I shot a 10 (par 4).  They usually only come into play if you try to carry the mounds from the tee to catch the downhill left side of the fairway to get within chipping distance of the green (I've been pin high left of the green several times making for a 385 yard drive). Risky, but rewarding when you make it.

You guys got me curious about these bunkers on the 18th at Monarch Dunes, so I dialed them up on Google Earth.  They do look interesting, and the one is maybe 5 ft in diameter!

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Richard Boult

Re: Tiny bunkers
« Reply #31 on: August 25, 2008, 01:20:37 PM »
Here's some photos of a few of those fairway bunkers on the 18th at Monarch Dunes...






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CJ Carder

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Re: Tiny bunkers
« Reply #32 on: August 25, 2008, 01:36:45 PM »
What about the two fairway bunkers on #10 at Turnberry?  I don't recall exactly how big they were, but for where they were placed on the course, yikes!
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Steve Wilson

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Re: Tiny bunkers
« Reply #33 on: August 25, 2008, 02:24:08 PM »
Dan,

I think I recall a bunker within a bunker on the 2nd(?) at Inniscrone.  The internal bunker was quite small and so I think fits within the parameters of this thread. 
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Joe Bausch

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Re: Tiny bunkers
« Reply #34 on: August 25, 2008, 02:47:27 PM »
Quote from: Steve WilsonŽ on August 25, 2008, 02:24:08 PM
Dan,

I think I recall a bunker within a bunker on the 2nd(?) at Inniscrone.  The internal bunker was quite small and so I think fits within the parameters of this thread. 

Good memory Steve!  There is a small one next to the giant fairway bunker on #2 at Inniscrone.  I don't have a picture of it, but this one shows about where it is (and I've been in it!):

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Steve Wilson

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Re: Tiny bunkers
« Reply #35 on: August 25, 2008, 02:54:51 PM »
Joe,

Sorry to hear you've been in it, but glad to hear that I remembered correctly.  I know when I went by the bunker on my way to butchering an approach and so wasting a perfect drive, I thought to myself "That's a cool touch."
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