https://pinhighpress.com/tags/sand-wedge/ Recent content in Sand Wedge on Pin High Press Hugo en-us Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/greenside-bunker-shot-amateurs-get-wrong/ Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pinhighpress.com/posts/greenside-bunker-shot-amateurs-get-wrong/ <p>There is a moment, common to almost every weekend round at almost every public course, when an amateur steps into a greenside bunker and proceeds to play the shot as if the sand were not there. The clubface goes up, the swing comes down, the ball is struck cleanly off the top of the sand, and the ball is gone, somewhere over the green and into the gallery of trees behind it. The player walks out of the bunker shaking his head. The next attempt, taken from the rough on the far side, is a bladed wedge that comes back into the bunker. By now the four-putt is mathematically inevitable, and the round, if a card was being kept, has gained another double bogey from a position that should have produced no worse than a five.</p>