https://pinhighpress.com/tags/fairway-bunkers/ Recent content in Fairway Bunkers on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/fairway-bunkers-the-shot-amateurs-make-too-hard/ Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/fairway-bunkers-the-shot-amateurs-make-too-hard/ <p>Ask a club golfer which bunker shot frightens them and almost all of them will name the greenside one, the delicate splash from soft sand by the putting surface. It is the wrong answer. The greenside bunker shot is forgiving by design, because you are trying to hit the sand rather than the ball and the margin for error is enormous. The shot that quietly does the damage is the one from the fairway bunker, forty or a hundred and forty yards out, where you have to catch the ball cleanly off firm sand with a long enough club to make a difference. Get it wrong and you are either still in the bunker or pitching out sideways, and a hole that should have cost you nothing has cost you two.</p>