Should Bunkers Be More Hazardous?

Hack It Out Golf

Hack it Out Golf - Mark Crossfield, Lou Stagner, Greg Chalmers

Education, Sports, Golf

4.8 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode is inspired by another listener question: should bunkers present more of a hazard—especially for professional golfers? Mark, Lou, and Greg engage in a really insightful conversation that reaches to the foundations of what golf is "supposed" to be. Most amateurs struggle mightily from bunkers, but especially on the biggest tours, the sand often seems more predictable than the surrounding rough. Can—or should—anything be done about that? Where to find us: Mark Crossfield's weekly newsletter: https://www.crossfieldgolf.com/subscribe Mark Crossfield on Twitter: https://twitter.com/4golfonline Mark Crossfield on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/4golfonline Lou Stagner's weekly newsletter: https://newsletter.loustagnergolf.com/subscribe Lou Stagner on Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouStagner Greg Chalmers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GregChalmersPGA The Hack It Out Golf Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HackItOutGolf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.0	Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot including the car now sean doesn't know
0:25.5	how he's going to get home thanks camber question from the listeners thanks for listening everybody
0:34.0	just so everybody knows if you do have a question you've got a better chance if we get read now. If you start with, I listen to the podcast every day and I love it.
0:41.4	Things like that get you a better chance of being. So just Lee has asked a question in. He's
0:46.3	just said podcast topic. So he's, he's lucky that we're answering. Because we all like a bit of
0:53.2	praise, don't we? we're basic i i'm basic
0:55.7	i'll take praise i would actually like it if i if you started if they started the question with
1:00.8	that and then added in who their favorite person is on the pod that'd be i was just about to say
1:05.3	i can't stand lou i can't stand lou but mark you're great yeah that wasn't what I was going to say, but yes, you'll carry on.
1:15.2	So Lee has asked a question.
1:18.0	How am I Scarbeck?
1:19.8	Is that, is that, am I Scarbeck?
1:22.2	Is that how you'd say a surname?
1:23.4	Yeah, I guess so.
1:24.3	Yeah.
1:25.7	Has asked a question, podcast topic.
1:28.1	Should Greenside Bunkers be adjusted to make them more penal for professionals?
1:33.4	Seems like it's not much of a penalty for them compared to the architect's design intent.
1:40.0	How could they be changed, question mark?
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