Not all bunkers are created equal. Some demand a lob wedge. Others demand a prayer. And five hazards on the major championship rotation have earned reputations so fearsome that even the world’s best ...

Welcome to SI Golf’s Inaugural Bad Takes Week, where our writers and editors have been asked to offer their worst ideas and defend them. These are columns on takes they believe in, even if they made ...

This week’s PGA Tour event at PGA West has one of the most daunting bunkers in pro golf. Just left of — and below — the 16th green sits a bunker that looks like you’d need a ladder to climb out of.

The Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass has tested the nerves of the PGA Tour's top players since 1982. How will it play ...

Tim Liddy says the renovation of all 18 green complexes at the Pete Dye Stadium Course at PGA West is like an archaeological dig. In this case, Liddy and the agronomy team at PGA West are looking for ...

Oakmont Country Club is known as one of the toughest courses in the world and, for the 125th US Open, it's set-up to be another brutal test. Not only is the thick, juicy rough in-play, but greens ...

Time was, when pros felt wronged by rules officials’ decisions, they might carp to their caddies or even their playing partners, or to reporters after the round. These days, there’s another option: ...

Robert MacIntyre is clearly in fine form, with back-to-back top-four finishes including a runner-up at last week’s Genesis Scottish Open. But he met his match Thursday in Royal Liverpool’s devilish ...

At the Mexico Open at Vidanta in February, defending champion Jake Knapp was battling just to make the cut when he hit a bunker shot on his final hole (the ninth) of the second round. The ball didn’t ...

Phil Mickelson was famous for his incredible wedge game. He could get up and down from anywhere—and even up-and-in—with his trusty 60-degree in hand. And it was Mickelson’s short game that led him to ...