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GolfClubAtlas.com => Golf Course Architecture => Topic started by: Matt_Cohn on July 31, 2011, 11:52:26 AM

Title: Should fairway bunkers be placed...
Post by: Matt_Cohn on July 31, 2011, 11:52:26 AM
...right where the golfer wants to hit the ball?

Or just very close to where the golfer wants to hit the ball?
Title: Re: Should fairway bunkers be placed...
Post by: Sean_A on July 31, 2011, 12:02:13 PM
Bunkers should be placed in all sorts of places,  but generally I would have thought placing a bunker is to protect a line of attack, not an exact place of attack. 

Ciao
Title: Re: Should fairway bunkers be placed...
Post by: Adam Clayman on July 31, 2011, 12:05:21 PM
Or, where the landform calls for them.
Title: Re: Should fairway bunkers be placed...
Post by: Garland Bayley on July 31, 2011, 09:21:54 PM
In the fairway. After all green-side bunkers are placed green-side.

Put the fairway bunkers right in the line of instinct and make people find a line of charm.
Title: Re: Should fairway bunkers be placed...
Post by: Mike Nuzzo on July 31, 2011, 10:09:43 PM
Matt
Which golfer?
Exactly where and approximately where change depending on the player.
Cheers
Title: Re: Should fairway bunkers be placed...
Post by: Bill_McBride on July 31, 2011, 10:15:28 PM
Legend has it that mr. Fownes, the designer and benevolent dictator of Oakmont, would see or hear of a shot played where Mr. Townes didn't like it, and the next day a bunker would be there. 
Title: Re: Should fairway bunkers be placed...
Post by: Wade Whitehead on July 31, 2011, 10:17:40 PM
...where the careless player often hits the ball.

WW
Title: Re: Should fairway bunkers be placed...
Post by: Kalen Braley on July 31, 2011, 10:37:25 PM
Quote from: Wade Whitehead on July 31, 2011, 10:17:40 PM
...where the careless player often hits the ball.

WW

Where the big bombers like to hit thier ball!  ;)
Title: Re: Should fairway bunkers be placed...
Post by: RSLivingston_III on July 31, 2011, 10:41:19 PM
The book 'Hazards' covers this quite well.
It is a bit more complicated subject than what a handful of comments on a thread can answer.