Completely agree with you on the sand trap question. If not playing a tournament rake it and drop it. People should be raking traps. Its golf etiquette 101!

Also, just a little recommendation, Adam. Every time you throw your end-of-round stats up they get blocked by the "pop-ups" for the next videos suggestion in the bottom left and right. Maybe if you just extended the end a little there that wouldn't happen but I don't make KZfaq vids so I dunno haha

Totally agree with your bunker rake take.

Nothing wrong with fixing an unraked bunker IMO, golf is hard enough as it is.

Agree with your take! If I cannot find a ball that would otherwise EASILY be found in a tournament then I call it a "gallery ball" and drop with no penalty. My thought process is that a crowd/gallery would find it if it were a tournament so I will drop in the general vicinity. A little more generous than your case but still

That’s awesome of them to take you along. About the “wet grips”, I wear Taylormade winter gloves and wet them and it’s better than leather gloves and being dry. I know because I sweat a lot and that’s what I do on hot and humid days here on the NC coast where it’s humid 7-9 months out of the year

I'm with you. If someone doesn't rake the trap and you hit into it, you get to pick it up, rake it, and drop it back where it would be.

Bucket hat is definitely a must. I live in Texas and this summer demanded it. Next time, ditch the cotton shorts… doesn’t handle swamp a$$ well. 😂. On a serious note, I finally got my first “Swing Tweak” and it was very informative and re-confirmed some old pro feedback I’ve gotten before. The advice and follow on drills are exactly what I needed and I can’t wait to play my next round.

So dope you were in my country man glad you had a good time!

I often put your videos on & listen as I drive to play golf. Gets my head in the right space to go out try my best to score but ALWAYS enjoy the round no matter what. Glad the game helped you so much that you now help others like myself. Thank you sir⛳️

I live in Nova Scotia and you might not think we get that humid here, but we do, so I often use my rain gloves on those 35-40 C days.

Great video! Always take something from your videos. Happy to say after hitting 80 on the dot five times this year I had 2 79’s last weekend. Mostly by avoiding doubles and three putts. Making better decisions in general.

Adam, you have an open invitation to Denver including lodging. I would love to play with and learn from you. Fall golf is amazing here plus the altitude adds 25 yards to your drives. Enjoy the Bahamas. I'm enjoying the vids.

As a NJ golfer, putting on Bermuda greens completely puzzling. Love seeing you in the tropics Adam. Also, lift clean n place is poorly groomed bunkers like that. It’s hard enough…..😅

Agree with you on the bunker rake stuff.

I'd love to hear a bit about what your longer term golf goals are. Visit specific courses? Handicap number? Particular skills?

If you think the Bahamas is hot you really need to hit Texas sometime. Today for instance. 87F right now in the Bahamas. 107 in Texas. West coast has you spoiled

Bahamas during hurricane season? Brave! Have fun and be safe.

Our casual rounds are just that - casual. We take relief like you did from a non raked bunker, but also divots and (in the summer in BC) burnt/“grassless” areas of the fairway. We are bad enough as it is! Obviously competition is different...

Adam, thank you for showing how you repaired your divot on the 18th hole. While the assumption is that you would do that, it is nice to show it once in a while as a reminder for all the newer golfers. Golf Etiquette 102.

In a tournament, we will play it as it lies and grumble about it. In a casual round, rake and place, or play the plugged lie if plugged.

On the bunker topic, practice swings should be allowed in the sand because every bunker seems to have different sand conditions in them even on the same course from hole to hole. It would be great to get a feel for how your club will react to the sand. Also you can rake it so it’s better than replacing or filling a divot in the fairway. I don’t see a reason why this rule still exists.

we should all agree here… Legitimate gentlemen’s(etc) casual round rules: 1. Rake and replace - all bunker shots (no one rakes anymore) 2. Preferred adjacent lie - from a shot in a divot (dumbest rule in golf?) 3. Preferred adjacent lie - ground under repair (on a fairway or rough where there’s clearly supposed to be grass. We’re playing golf, not dessert polo.)

Actually GHIN had new rules for handicap rounds. 1 is that if you are in a footprint that wouldn't be there in a tournament you may pick up rake and place without penalty. Same with a fairway divot.

I tend to play my sand shots from the unraked bunkers of my local courses. The clientele seem to think it's not their job to rake a bunker. That being said, a bucket hat is a must. Playing in Texas, it provides shade on the neck and ears. A second towel soaked wet also provides cooling between shots. BTW, your my favorite professional amateur golfer on KZfaq.

I think that’s a good rule about adjusting your lie based on tournament conditions. I recently decided to start moving my ball out of divots in the fairway. Course was a muni and doesn’t provide sand with the carts, I shouldn’t have to pay for that. Esp when I only hit 1/3 fairways anyway 😂

100% agree with bunkers. You won't see a pro hitting out of a foot print. Bunkers are hazards but if there's a rake, there's not supposed to be a foot print

Totally agree with raking the sand if in a foot print

Adam, great video yet again! Curious if/when you'll put out the much awaited handicap-system video? Thanks again!

My policy on divots is directly related to the condition of the course. Raty muni - take relief. High end course - no relief. The key is that I make the call BEFORE starting the round...

Completely agree with you on the sand trap, but our sand traps are so bad it doesn't matter anyway.

This was awesome. After hurricane season planning on taking my boat to the Bahamas and play golf for a few days. Hopefully I can get on here

Look forward to your videos weekly. Great job

Played this course last year! Shot 83 with the wife as cart driver. Def a must play

I agree with bunker rule. One that bothers me is when you hit a perfect drive in the middle of the fairway & it lands in a unreplaced divot, or hard pan dirt occasionally on a poor fairway, I wish you could drop it out.😡😂

If the bunkers haven’t been maintained, I just rake and drop. Did you go to the Atlantis water park while you were there? The slides and beaches are nice.

Just FYI. On bermuda greens the rough side of the hole is where it breaks. The grass is growing away from the hole, meaning that's where the ball wants to move.

I’m with you. In a casual round im raking that trap.

Enjoyable video as always Adam!

Very appropriate to take that sand relief!

I had a match for school today, which had to end short because of rain, but if we had continued, i think i could’ve broken 90 for the first time. I shot 60 through 12 holes, and on 10 I chipped in for birdie!

Feel your pain with the heat. Played back to back days in vegas last weekend and it was 104 and 105 with some humidity. I came out firing but around the 12th hole my energy just melted away and so did the round. Lol Also I was told to wear a bucket hat and refused, peeling pretty bad on my face. Lol

In my casual rounds I'm there to have fun. I'll do and play whatever results in the best 4 hours, even if that includes getting relief inside a bunker!

I use the Sharky hat "Stetson" type as my father had skin cancer on his ears as a big golfer so I choose the shade. Sadly we have to suck up the idiots that choose to never touch a rake. Off 6 we have to get on with it, great vid of real golf.

agree with the bunker take

nice shades Adam!

Adam livin the life ⛳️🍹 🏖️

We are here for the bucket hat.

I couldn't agree more. The tour allows for a player to rake the sand and place the ball if another player disturbs the lie...what's the difference. I say place and let live.

That's awesome Adam, I love your videos!

Summer in the Caribbean, now that’s brave haha. Beautiful though! Get any other courses in there?

I once suggested that balls in fairway divots be defined as embedded balls. Based on the response I got, you would have thought that I had suggested cruelty to puppies.

During our casual rounds, we always play preferred lies. We are not pros, we are playing for fun.

I would check local rules about traps, you might be allowed to rake, clean and place.

11:37 If I was in the Bahamas and someone didn't rake the bunker... I am not going to let someone else's f*** up mess with my round. Especially if it is a once in a life time trip... If I was to play my home course and it happened there. Okay, I'll play it. It gives you some variation so on and so forth, because I know I'll HOPEFULLY play it 100's of more times.. Just my two cents.

Hey Mate! great watching your videos :) had a round with you here in the Lower mainland which inspired me to start my own channel (not golf related lol) Sorry for my crappy golf skills good sir ;)

It’s rake and place every time

I've picked up my ball in the bunker due to all of the rocks. And being courteous is a pillar in Golf...but it has appears to have declined a bit.

Great video

If I'm on vacation in the bahamas and the guys ahead of me didn't rake the bunker, you better believe I'm re raking and replacing my ball. We're not pros, we're playing for our own satisfaction (especially on vacation)

Rake and place if the bunker was not properly repaired. I can't stand when people don't rake up after themselves. It's very selfish, entitled, or lazy. No reason we should have to make a difficult shot even more difficult because someone else decided to just hit from the bunker and take off. I understand how frustrating bunkers can be, but please have some consideration for your fellow golfers 🙂

Looks beautiful, and by the way, I would’ve done the same as you in an un-raked bunker. In fact. I did it today here in Scottsdale.

Adam I always enjoy your content but gotta disagree with you on your bunker relief rule. If it's a 'casual' round then why do you care about your score? What goal are you trying to accomplish? If your goal is fun then you're basically saying you can't have fun unless you score well. If your goal is to get better then handling bad breaks is a huge part of course management and improving.

I’d have definitely taken relief from that giant footprint. It’s hard enough to get out of a well manicured bunker, leastways a giant footprint. FYI, at least in east TN, that tradition of never raking started long before Covid…..

You play it as it is in that bunker. Sucks but that's how it should be. Loved the video. Well played.

The person that needs to be punished/penalized is the jackwad who didn't rake the bunker, not the poor guy faced with a shot from his footprint!

Go in maan 😂😂😂

Adam, I’d go as far as to say they should change the rules for amateurs so that if you hit it in the bunker you can play from anywhere within that bunker. I don’t do that but for high handicappers it’s like hitting it in the water. Rake it and place it.

I play in Texas, and every summer I play around 2-3pm when it’s 107 degrees just because I have the course all by myself. I actually have done it so much I forget it’s hot..until I see non Texans who complain then I remember how psychotic it is being outside haha.

Since COVID, with all the idiots on the course, it has gotten so that I am actually surprised when someone rakes a bunker, fixes a divot or pitch mark, you know, any of the things that someone with even a little respect for the game and their fellow players routinely does. So, yeah, fix the lie in the bunker in non-tournament rounds and #ShrinkTheGame.

Rake the bunkers people.

wow so this is what them private pilots be doing when waiting around during their clients vacations.

don't have a problem with the lie change in the bunker as the situation shouldn't exist in any reputable tournament. what bothers me more, and i might be wrong on this, why are the leaders of PGA events on Sunday playing with the most risk of landing in an unfilled divot? why can't we define a divot similar to an embedded lie, say a quarter to half the ball is in a manmade depression? I am not 100% on whether caddies/course maintenance fill divots DURING play, so I may be wrong on this.

Come to the Philippines I will host you in two clubs :)

Was there last fall for Tiger's Hero Challenge tournament and wanted to go play this course... that is, until I saw that the green fee and rental clubs and everything was going to run me about $700 US. 😅Juuuuuust a tad out of my price range so I unfortunately had to say 'no thanks' to that plan.

I vote 100% in favor of your relief. I have always been a "play it straight up guy", but like you said, that's just bullshit. It's kind of like when you miss a drive 5 yards off the fairway and you can't find it and there's people behind you, but you know you'd find it if you spent 3 whole minutes actually looking for it in a tournament with people helping you.

Variety is part of golf and is what makes it fun to play And yes that includes unraked bunkers and hitting out of divots

Hey next time theres a seat free!! Lol anyhow Im in town 25th- 28th sept.. lets get this thing done !! Haha!😂

You hit it there, play it.... as geerock said below, when it hits a tree and keeps it from going OB no one ever complains..... so many would never cheat or bend the rules in other sports or games but in golf its a different story. Heaven forbid you call them on it. An honest mistake is one thing, however, you start taking liberties when it comes to rules you're playing a different game not the one called Golf.

You should never have to suffer from another persons laziness .. I’ve played a round were every other hole the group in front wouldn’t replace the flag in the pin … like wtf

Divots with no sand, nope. Footprint in the sand, nope. Golf is fun, and to steal your tag line, I’m not a scratch golfer.

Key to saving yourself a few strokes is not wearing teenage baseball viper glasses boys lol

Son-in-law shot...😂

It looks like somewhere a politician would take a child

240 BOMB "not my best strike" you a dog my man

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Maybe I'm a stickler but I believe that you play the course how you find it. You're in a bunker... It's meant to be a hazard and punish you for hitting in there... you don't get to treat yourself to a nice lie. I hear similar arguments from people who pull their ball out of divots, away from tree roots, fluff their lies, etc.... Nobody ever complains that their ball that was headed straight OB kicks off a tree back into the fairway. The game is played outdoors and we have to take the bad breaks with the good. Rub of the green and whatnot.

no you bogeyed 11