You win, I surrender. For years I have tried to argue the stupidity of bunker rakes. I’ve changed my mind, my guys can bend over 300 times a day for mowing and grooming. You can return to getting fiberglass shards in your hands. The rake company can return to overcharging for a plastic rake while they create generational wealth. You can be angry that the rake is there, but people were too lazy to use it. All I ever wanted was a revival of what the game used to be when it was first invented.
Shockingly, magazines are now wondering if bunkers have gotten too easy. Podcasts are now talking whether bunkers should be unpredictable, but golfers are programmed with this unchangeable dogma: that bunkers need to be perfectly groomed. They need to be fair. Everything in life has to be fair. I tried to convince you … bunkers are hazards. They are positioned to dictate alternative strategy. If you know bunkers are bad, you play around them, you don’t simply go straight through them. You believe bunkers are merely a decoration. They are very expensive decorations. I want them to be concerning. Concerning to strategy. Apparently… not seeing rakes is actually the concern.
The good news is, all the rakes are back. The bad news is…it costed so much to replace the rakes and excessive grooming, there will no longer be money for bunker upkeep. Again, no one should mind. All is right in the world….you were mad there were no rakes, now you see a rake. Soon you will see no bunker. This article was written as satire. I saw this picture and it moved me. I’m not actually bringing rakes back. You just wait, the day is coming where all rakes, at all courses will be gone. You can say you knew the crazy guy who started the movement back to real golf.
