Welcome to Play Smart, a regular GOLF.com game-improvement column that will help you play smarter, better golf. For the weekend player, bunker shots are some of the most challenging in all of golf. It ...

It's fair to say that many golfers, and women in particular, develop a real fear when their ball lands in a bunker, and this season, I've been one of them. I've lost so many shots, either struggling ...

Tommy Fleetwood, after a couple of waggles and a couple of looks up, hit. And he was happy. To a target maybe 25 yards outside of the bunker he was in, his ball rolled to within a few feet. “Love that ...

Hitting from a greenside bunker is challenging under any circumstance, but adding a downhill slope adds fuel to the fire. When the ball is below your feet on a downward slope, even solid fundamentals ...

Smylie Kaufman and Charlie Hulme discuss the Bermuda roughs and deep bunkers at the Sony Open, with pitching techniques and par-saving tips for the greens.

Links golf is a staple of The Open Championship, but what does that mean? Explaining links golf, pot bunkers and more at the British Open. Because of fans just tuning into the majors or, perhaps, just ...