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if there's no give in the sand at all, I play it like a tight lie chip with my 58.
^ This. We play out of a lot of compacted/hardpan bunkers, and I've had the best success with playing it as a tight lie chip.if there's no give in the sand at all, I play it like a tight lie chip with my 58.
Um.... Come west. We have sand.Just as the title says, what are your strategies for playing hard pan bunkers, esp. green side? We rarely get real sand here in Nebraska. Ours are just plain caca.
Here is the thing, I almost prefer the hard pan because in AZ you just get used to it, but the struggles are real when you play a course with "real" sand and you drop into a bunker to take your shot and your like "Why the EFF am I walking in marshmellows"The problem (at least for me) is that it's a difficult shot that you don't get to practice. My home course has a practice bunker next to the putting green, but it's the nicest bunker on the whole course - full of nice, fine sand, and it bears no resemblance to the bunkers out on the course. You can practice there all day, but it won't even remotely resemble the conditions you'll find when you're actually playing. I should be practicing off the cart path leading to the putting green, that would be a more realistic representation.
Exactly! I get on a course with real sand in the bunkers now and I'm standing there thinking "Okay, how do you do this again???".Here is the thing, I almost prefer the hard pan because in AZ you just get used to it, but the struggles are real when you play a course with "real" sand and you drop into a bunker to take your shot and your like "Why the EFF am I walking in marshmellows"