Is somebody stealing the rakes from bunkers ?
 

It seems that many bunkers on the championship courses have 1 or 2 rakes at most. If they want the bunkers raked, it might help if they put a few more out there and it might help speed up play around the greens.

This suggestion on this site will get no results. :ohdear:

I doubt it, I haven’t seen too many golfers around here even touch a rake.

O please, you get rake before you enter the sand trap and rake you way out and throw it down like at side of sand trap everybody else.

What are rakes?

You mean those rakes aren’t complementary for the taking as part of the $68.48 green fees? Dam, I was getting two dollars a piece for them at the garage sale.

Wrong, you leave the rake IN the trap here in TV.

Funny how you jumped to the conclusion that stealing was the cause. Shame on you

I rake traps! I am saying that a large sand trap should have more than 1 or 2 rakes to facilitate that. Please. From other posts on this site speaking with the staff at the courses does little good as well. I was thinking a site about golfing in the villages might get some attention from the people who own the courses.

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Rakes should be placed back in sand trap after use. Pictures of rake placement at every starter shack

Defund Village Watch and buy more rakes!

Missed his point.

(& side of trap does NOT mean outside of trap)

The old saying is leave the bunker better than you found it. Unfortunately not many golfers these days care enough to rake bunkers anyone.

Need at least 4 rakes per trap. Rarely there

The only time this bothers me is HUGE traps with only 1 or perhaps 2 rakes in and literally slows play down since you can either rake half an acre or have to walk a good deal to get it and add minutes to the hole.

Alternatively, I suppose my answer could be not to be in the sand so darn much.

Respectfully, DB

Rakes for sand traps
 

For those that think a rake for sand traps should be left in bunker after raking sand , your wrong . Have you ever seen a rake in a bunker on tv during a PGA tournament?
No , because it’s not allowed
to put a rake back in trap ( hazard ) only in grass around trap . Check it out .

I haven’t landed in a trap in years…..I don’t care about rakes….

Try staying out of the bunkers

sarcasm

Are you seriously saying you're too lazy to walk half way or less around a bunker to get a rake. WOW

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I have yet to pass any sand trap on any course that doesn't have unraked foot prints all through it. Listen people, I don't care about your perceived social status, you have no excuse not to rake the trap after you have trampled through it. Do whatever you think you have to do to protect yourself, but fix your mess. That goes for fixing your ball marks and divots as well.

This isn’t the PGA. TV asks that you place the rake in the trap perpendicular to the edge of the trap. Someone needs to go to Good Golf School.

And when you do put it down be sure to put tines up for some comedic relief. 😲🤣

too many do not rake bunkers, sand divots or fix ball marks on greens......way too many.

Yesterday, we actually found a rake that not only wasn’t fully in the trap at 90 degrees from the edge, but about 20 feet from the bunker where it could interfere with a ball rolling to the green.

This isn’t rocket engineering, people! Learn the rules before you play.

True, much less the ones that do rake out can't seem to place them back correctly!:1rotfl:

The rakes at a PGA event are kept off to the side, out of play. The rake is given to the caddie when they approach the trap. TV golf staff ask that the rakes be placed in the trap so the staff mowing the grass don’t have to get off the mower to move rakes when mowing around the bunkers.

Employees of Villages courses are advised NOT to read anything on this forum. I speak from personal experience as a former ambassador. That being said, the complaints are used as comedy material at staff meetings.

Or run over the rakes while mowing in the DARK. There is a reason they go in the traps...NOTE: This probably also relates to the OP's question about a lack of rakes...

go ahead, pile it on

missing rakes

like I didn't have enough to worry about with Russia invading it's neighbor, China flexing it's muscles, covid, inflation and supply line issues

Let me know when you come up with something more important than golf course conditions: (

I'll be sure to do that

They want you to put the rakes in the traps at 90 degree angle so when the mowers are out there in the wee hours of the morning they don't get mowed over...
THESE ARE NOT PGA RUN GOLF COURSES... YOU'RE WRONG.
That's why there are instructions at every starter shack on how to replace the rakes...
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Do not hit ball into the bunkers and all of the rake concerns will go away

Actually the golf staff were told to cut back on the number of rakes in the bunkers.
Must be running low on revenue...
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Look at what topic this post is in:

This is the place to talk about all aspects of Golf. Golf courses, your clubs, your great shots, form a golf group or anything else golf related related to The Villages, Florida!

Only 2 dollar ?:1rotfl:

Exactly. I find rakes laying up in the grass in all positions possible and find them in the middle of the bunkers. I'm no angel but it's apparent there are a lot of people not attending good golf class. There is a picture at every starter shack showing how to place the rakes. By the way I hit two good balls Friday. Stepped on a rake!:1rotfl: