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If you’re anything like me, you’re always hitting your ball into the sand bunkers. You’re friends with that rake. Good friends. But are we fixing it correctly when we’re done? I’ll tell you how I do it, and how to rake a sand bunker my way…and I think it’s pretty good. Experience helps.

First of all, your entry into the bunker matters. Try and find the lowest spot that’s closest to your ball. You can use this to both go in and to go out. This will also keep you from possibly hurting the turf, walking off a high rim, and walking a larger distance, requiring you to have to rake more sand.

Go in the bunker and make sure the rake is behind you when you take your shot; there are rules against testing out the area, and you don’t want anyone to accuse you of that. Also make sure the rake is close to you, able to reach it easily. If not, walking to it will make even more of an area that you have to rake.

Start by raking over the place where your club and footprints touched the sand. Pretend as if you’re raking leaves, pulling the rake toward you as you slowly make your way to the bunker’s rim. Just make sure that you don’t pull too much sand toward yourself, because you want to restore an evenly-surfaced sand.

Make sure you’re making your way back to the bunker’s edge!

Finish up your raking by making a few final rakes over the sand. Replace the rake outside of the bunker on the grass.

The goal is to get the sand in the same – or better – condition that it was before you hit that terrible shot into the bunker. Again, I understand. Experience.By Paul A Buchanan

If you’re anything like me, you’re always hitting your ball into the sand bunkers. You’re friends with that rake. Good friends. But are we fixing it correctly when we’re done? I’ll tell you how I do it, and how to rake a sand bunker my way…and I think it’s pretty good. Experience helps.

First of all, your entry into the bunker matters. Try and find the lowest spot that’s closest to your ball. You can use this to both go in and to go out. This will also keep you from possibly hurting the turf, walking off a high rim, and walking a larger distance, requiring you to have to rake more sand.

Go in the bunker and make sure the rake is behind you when you take your shot; there are rules against testing out the area, and you don’t want anyone to accuse you of that. Also make sure the rake is close to you, able to reach it easily. If not, walking to it will make even more of an area that you have to rake.

Start by raking over the place where your club and footprints touched the sand. Pretend as if you’re raking leaves, pulling the rake toward you as you slowly make your way to the bunker’s rim. Just make sure that you don’t pull too much sand toward yourself, because you want to restore an evenly-surfaced sand.

Make sure you’re making your way back to the bunker’s edge!

Finish up your raking by making a few final rakes over the sand. Replace the rake outside of the bunker on the grass.

The goal is to get the sand in the same – or better – condition that it was before you hit that terrible shot into the bunker. Again, I understand. Experience.By Paul A Buchanan