What is this hole for ? SERIOUS question....
 

Sand rake if you own one.

Yep, sand rake!

This is for a ball retriever. Not a sand rake!

Some examples.

Does anyone carry a sand rake with them???

Does anyone even own one??

I have seen a lot of people with a ball retriever but I never seen anyone carry a sand rake.

Many courses outside the Villages put sand rakes on their rental carts. Bunkers have zero!

My dad carried a sand rank on his bag, and then on his cart, exactly where OPs pic is. Even though in later years rakes were available he always used his, right up until the day he stopped playing. It remains in our garage up north.
He never had a ball retriever, because why would you hold up players. Add the stroke, drop the ball. It’s how I play because of him.

It was about the game how he was taught, and the respect of that course. He would have been 92 this year.
So depending on your golf etiquette, and probably your age, personal rake was just part of the equipment.

That is where I put my ball retriever for the seldom amount of times (I wish !!!!) that I put one in the water. :) All of our courses have rakes so no need to carry one of those. After all, I NEVER go into a sand bunker (I wish !!!!). :)

He was a wise man and a considerate golfer : )

It’s another black hole ������️.

I squeeze an umbrella in there. Never know when you might need it.

An answer with photo Proof !
 

n answer with photo Proof !.
Thank you,

Thanks growing up their house bordered a private CC. The owner allowed him to play after hours for free as long as he respected the course. He and his friend, Carl Rose (of Carls Golfland in MI) played HS golf. So rules were very important to my dad for the honor of playing free golf.
Two rules we had to follow “You don’t penalize the group behind you because you hit poorly, and NO mulligans, because if that mulligan goes in the hole it’s Not a hole in one. It just cheating, yourself.

Many courses one the left coast use that to place a rake for bunkers vs placing rakes in the bunkers themselves.

Yes during Covid and yes I still own it.

Does a sand rake work in golf carts with the sunbrella enclosure?

At the risk of appearing ignorant (which means ill-informed - not stupid) and starting this thread down a rat-hole of insults and superiority displays, how do you penalize the group behind you by hitting poorly? Are you just supposed to take a drop near the pin and tap it in? I can do that on par fives and get three under every time! lol!!

Some couses have a rake here on their clubs carts

You do know what amn official drop zone is! How many times have you been behind a foursome taking 5-10 minutes, looking for a ball, or the guys that take that ball retriever fishing their ball, then spends another 10 minutes fishing out another 10 balls that they can see. Then ya got to love the guy who hits the first ball in the water, and then the second ball in the water, and then the third ball in the water all off the tee. Because his second and third shot has got to improve in their mind.

Happens more than you think on the championships, but mostly on the executives.

“that is penalizing the group behind you because you hit poorly”.

Wrong! It's for a sand rake for courses that don't leave rakes in the traps.

We bought our own during Covid.

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Some people use it to put a ball retriever in it.

Yamaha , a world wide company, has that on for sand trap rakes! A lot more Yamaha’s around the world than in The Villages !

Reply from Ted’s wife:

I just played with a gentleman and he has his own rake on his cart. Explained that if/when he has to hit out of a trap, the rakes provided are usually far from his ball. Note: he was an excellent player and was very gracious to the 3 women he was playing with.

I keep an umbrella in it

That's where I superglue the bottle opener for my glass bottles of Jarritos.