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DO WE REALLY NEED BUNKER RAKES?

no

ROD MORRI

Golf Australia’s podcast, The Thing About Golf, host and columnist

Some will undoubtedly condemn my ‘no rakes in bunkers’ take as some sort of woke nonsense but that would be a very narrow view of an issue that speaks volumes about the way the game has changed – not necessarily for the better – over the decades.

Like the 14-club rule and calls for sand filled fairway divots to be treated as GUR, rakes in bunkers are a 20th century contrivance which go against the

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