Every golfer has experience hitting a bunker shot off of sand that's less-than-ideal. Wet sand happens because of uncontrollable factors (rain), and firm sand happens when a bunker doesn't regularly ...

As someone who’s always struggled to get up and down from greenside bunkers, I tapped my buddy Kelvin Kelley to share some of his best golf tips. In the video below, Kelley, a top-ranked golf teacher, ...

Getting a golf ball out of a bunker, the sandy hazard found around greens and fairways, is one of the trickiest skills in ...

As easy as the pros may make it seem, shots from the bunkers aren’t easy. When a recreational player hits into the sand, most are praying they can just get it out in a single shot. There’s a reason ...

"Mid to high handicappers have little to no shaft lean with every club in the bag. So when they get into the bunker, the same ...

Is your normal tendency in a bunker to decelerate and leave the ball in the sand, or to bounce the club off the sand and send a Mach 1 bullet over the green? If one of these tendencies sounds like you ...

Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you become a smarter, better golfer. I’ve played muni golf all my life. I was never a country-club kid and even the ...

The ballgame moment—as in, "we've got ourselves a ballgame"—came on the 12th hole, when an errant drive from Matt Fitzpatrick ...

Getting out of a greenside bunker can be a tricky proposition for lots of average or beginner golfers — especially when it's from a deep bunker that has a short-sided pin, meaning you've got to be ...