
Playing from fairway bunkers
A Practical Guide to Playing From Fairway Bunkers
A practical guide to fairway-bunker play: read the situation, choose the percentage shot, and keep the next play simple.
A fairway bunker doesn't have to mean sideways. With the right club, cleaner contact, and a realistic target, you can turn sand in the middle of the hole into a manageable recovery instead of a wasted stroke. Learn the choices that keep one mistake from becoming two.

Playing from fairway bunkers
A practical guide to fairway-bunker play: read the situation, choose the percentage shot, and keep the next play simple.

Playing from fairway bunkers
Higher-handicap golfers can save strokes in fairway-bunker play by choosing the boring success more often.

Playing from fairway bunkers
Competitive golfers can use fairway-bunker play to apply pressure without letting ambition outrun the lie.

Playing from fairway bunkers
The common fairway-bunker play errors that turn one awkward position into a hole you have to explain later.

Playing from fairway bunkers
Build a pre-round plan for fairway-bunker play so the hard choice does not arrive as a surprise.

Playing from fairway bunkers
Real-world fairway-bunker play examples show how better choices turn awkward lies into manageable scores.