This week’s PGA Tour event at PGA West has one of the most daunting bunkers in pro golf. Just left of — and below — the 16th green sits a bunker that looks like you’d need a ladder to climb out of.

Welcome to SI Golf’s Inaugural Bad Takes Week, where our writers and editors have been asked to offer their worst ideas and defend them. These are columns on takes they believe in, even if they made ...

Sahith Theegala would have gotten away with it on Saturday afternoon. Instead, Theegala called himself out for a penalty and kept his conscience clean. Theegala posted a 5-under 66 on Saturday in the ...

At the Mexico Open at Vidanta in February, defending champion Jake Knapp was battling just to make the cut when he hit a bunker shot on his final hole (the ninth) of the second round. The ball didn’t ...

At the 2026 Travelers Championship on Friday, the tension between television needs and fair play surfaced in an unusual way when Mac Meissner’s ball plugged in a greenside bunker at TPC River ...