When You Fall Into the Sand Trap

A sand trap is an area in a golf course that will provide an obstacle for your game. Sand traps or bunkers are depressions or shallow pits that are filled with sand. A Warrior Custom Golf sand wedge is an excellent way to bring the ball out of the bunker.

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There are rules applying to balls that fall in a hazard or sand trap, explains Warrior Custom Golf. The player should not touch the ground with his club before hitting the ball. A ball falling in a sand trap (or any other type of hazard) may be played on where it lies without accruing penalty. If it is impossible to hit it on the hazard area, it can be hit from a different location with a penalty of one stroke.

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It can be pretty disappointing landing your ball in a sand trap. You may have done a different thing or two to have avoided it. But in order to move on with the game, one has to be effective in dealing with a sand trap. The idea is still the same 鈥?hitting your ball to get it up in the air and put back into the green. One needs to make a 鈥渃hop鈥?shot against the ball to elevate it above the sand trap depression. The club鈥檚 face should be open to enable an upward motion shot, or facing the sky. The sand has to be hit close to the ball and keep the arms close to the body to enable the sand trap shot. If you鈥檙e playing a game of golf with friends, maybe you鈥檒l luck out and they will allow you a mulligan.

Mulligan, in the game of golf, was first used in the 1940s. It refers to a 鈥渄o-over鈥?shot wherein a golfer can replay a stroke. Obviously, a mulligan is not considered a legal shot as a golfer does not have any opportunities to replay a stroke in an actual game. Thus, people are puzzled on how they came about. There are several stories on its origin, and here are some of them.

The United States Golf Association (USGA) museum explains that in 1920s, David Mulligan often played in a country club in Quebec. In one game, he teed off and wasn鈥檛 happy with his shot so he re-teed and called it a 鈥渃orrection shot.鈥?His golf buddies dubbed it as the 鈥渕ulligan鈥?and the term started to catch on as he had several golf buddies that used the term. However, this version of the story lacks evidence, thus another version was presented. John 鈥淏uddy鈥?Mulligan, who often played in Essex Fells Country Club in New Jersey, was known for replaying poor shots, thus the use of the term. Another origin of the term ties it to the Irish-American golfers who were not the best of players and often re-teed their poor shots. Lastly, the term 鈥渕ulligan鈥?was used to refer to a free bottle of booze in saloons which was later adapted to golf courses in order to denote a 鈥渇reebie鈥?shot given to golfers.

Obviously, the exact history and origin of the term 鈥渕ulligan鈥?offers no definitive explanation due to the lack of evidence presented in each version of the story. But ultimately, it may have originated from a golfer in the early twentieth century who often re-teed his bad shots.

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