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Old 04-13-2015, 06:55 PM
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Default Sand Traps

Played Mallory today and the course in general was good. The reason for this post is to illustrate the continuing issue with too much sand at the lips of traps. Having had a considerable amount of rain yesterday evening a number of the traps washed out at the top. This will happen. The problem (that the attached picture illustrates) is where the actual base of the trap exists. This wash out shows the actual base of the trap that was easily 18 - 20" below the lip. When they repair this by pushing the sand back up to the lip there will be sand at the lip and extending into the trap a few feet that will be 18"+ deep. Any shot that hits in this area will if lucky be a "fried egg", but most likely disappear. Basically impossible to even stand in this area as your feet will sink like in quicksand.

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