bunker
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈbʌŋkər/
- Specialized
:
búnker
- If a golfer improves his fairway bunker play, that will lower his scores over a period of time.
- a fairway bunker
- sand bunkers
- a green-side bunker
Examples
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But Sandy Joe Gold, in his element, waggles his feet to plant himself and manages a good blast shot out of the pot bunker.
Fiction book (1990) -
I was just off the 16th green in two, and he was buried in the bunker.
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Sometimes the bunker can offer a better lie than the rough surrounding a green.
Blog text (32) -
If you fail to follow through, I can almost guarantee more shots will remain in the bunker than actually get out.
Blog text (32) -
In addition, grass greens and sand bunkers would be added to the course.
Academic text (2008) -
What about that bunker shot on 18, which, to my recollection, was a 7-iron?
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While many may find this penalizing, I've been in a lot worse places around a green than a bunker.
Blog text (32) -
You've left your approach shot in that dreaded greenside bunker.
Blog text (32) -
The redo included a new clubhouse and practice facilities, reworked fairways and greens, 300 additional trees, 18 bunkers, and other work that means "everyone who sees it for the first time cannot believe it is the same course," according to golf pro Mickey Piersall.
Blog text (29) -
After hitting a bad shot, she found her ball resting in the bunker near the green.
Synonyms
7
6.7
A sand hollow on a golf course that makes shots difficult
6
3.3
A shallow pit filled with sand that makes golf shots harder
Compounds
- Specialized
3
7.9
A very strong bomb that breaks through thick concrete to explode inside underground shelters
2
7.9
A defensive, isolated attitude people develop after being criticized many times
1
4.7
An early battle of the American Revolution near Boston in which the British won but suffered heavy losses
How Difficult
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bunker on a golf course originally came from the same old word bunk for a hollow or low place, and it became the name for a sand 'pit' that makes a shot harder, so the origin explains its meaning on the course.