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Mark me in the column of full support for furrowed bunkers. This week they make their return to the PGA Tour’s Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club. Last year many of golf’s cry babies revealed themselves whining that a bunker might actually be a bad place to be! Nicklaus, who has been at least talking a good game of late, had a few things to say about the furrowed bunkers prior to this week’s tournament.

“If they put the ball in the bunker this week on the right side, they could get a decent lie,” Nicklaus said. “Or they might not get a good lie. So they’re going to say, ‘I’m not sure I want to be in there. Maybe I ought to play this hole the way it’s designed. Maybe I ought to take a 3-wood or a 5-wood or a 2-iron and put it down there in play.”

Last year during the telecast, ESPN’s Karl Ravech was discussing the course setup with Nicklaus and he offered this brilliant insight.

Well, you know, Karl what I’ve always felt is that the recovery shot is one of the most beautiful shots in the game of golf and the norm has been now to make the rough higher, the fairways narrower and to me that makes the game more boring. Because all you do is hit it in the rough and chop it out.

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