What's the smallest purposely made bunker you've ever seen?

[nevets88]

This one's pretty small. I bet there's one smaller though.

 

[pganapathy]

Bet that would be a pretty easy bunker to rake once you hit out of it   I ain't seen bunkers smaller than this on the courses I play.  A lot bigger, yes

[Ernest Jones]

1 hour ago, nevets88 said:

This one's pretty small. I bet there's one smaller though.

 

 

 

My Dad's old course used to have one like this, just off the front edge of a green. They eventually got rid of it.

[DaveP043]

I played at Whistling Straits last summer, and there are a few (of the 1200 or so bunkers) that are a similar size.  Our caddie told  us, the good news is that there are about 1000 bunkers that aren't even in play.  The bad news, that still leaves a couple of hundred that ARE in play.

[Dave2512]

Former home course had a bunker behind the 8th called the toilet bowl. It was just slightly bigger. Sucks being in it because is more like a giant sand filled divot sunken into a mound. 

[Lihu]

2 hours ago, pganapathy said:

Bet that would be a pretty easy bunker to rake once you hit out of it   I ain't seen bunkers smaller than this on the courses I play.  A lot bigger, yes

If you can find a rake that small.

 

[Patch]

2 maybe 3 feet wide I think. An old  tree was removed. Instead of replacing the tree, they just filled hole in with sand. 

[iacas]

I think the 14th hole at the Pete Dye course in French Lick (it was probably played as the fifth when the Seniors played there last year) has a ridiculously small bunker that is in a stupid spot - just in front of the green on a barely reachable (but uphill) par five.

[bwdial]

On 4/27/2016 at 9:56 AM, Lihu said:

If you can find a rake that small.

 

Done!

[Lihu]

32 minutes ago, bwdial said:

Done!

Good Find!

[CarlSpackler]

Oakland Hills #15. There is a small pot bunker right in front of the green that the caddies call "The Devil's A$$hole". Excuse the language, but that's what they call it. 

[Steelergolfer311]

On June 5, 2016 at 8:15 PM, CarlSpackler said:

Oakland Hills #15. There is a small pot bunker right in front of the green that the caddies call "The Devil's A$$hole". Excuse the language, but that's what they call it. 

What state is that in ?

[Shindig]

24 minutes ago, Steelergolfer311 said:

What state is that in ?

Yours (Michigan), I think.  

[jamo]

On June 5, 2016 at 8:15 PM, CarlSpackler said:

Oakland Hills #15. There is a small pot bunker right in front of the green that the caddies call "The Devil's A$$hole". Excuse the language, but that's what they call it. 

Here's the only picture of it I could find:

http://top100golf.blogspot.com/2007/05/pine-valley-golf-club.html

[Steelergolfer311]

19 minutes ago, Shindig said:

Yours (Michigan), I think.  

That's what I thought. That's funny , I work at blackheath in Rochester. There's a real deep small bunker on #10. Not sure if there's a nickname for it?

 

[RickK]

On 4/27/2016 at 5:54 AM, nevets88 said:

This one's pretty small. I bet there's one smaller though.

 

There used to be a golf course near George Bush Airport in Houston called H&H Guest Ranch.  I remember it having a couple of bunkers about the size of the one in that pic.  Also their greens weren't a lot bigger.  

Edited June 20, 2016 by RickK

[EMC2144]

At a course in Central PA called Toftrees that I played once, there were lots of little bunkers. Not recalling exactly how small, but I feel like I remember being in a bunker where I had to stand with one foot outside it with the ball at the far end.  So maybe 2-3 foot diameter? I also remember that hole being a disaster.

[KarenS]

I've heard about Whistling Straits too, more than 1000 bunkers rough estimate, although most of them were designed primarily for intimidation. Talk about mean and sadistic. Did you know you can blame bunkers on Scottish sheep? They are the original "sand trap architect".