Bunker Quotations

The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

Gordon Ramsay grew up in a tourist town, Stratford-Upon-Avon, but in a part tourists don't visit - a council estate: a concrete bunker subsidized by the local government, synonymous with deprivation and blight.

Among all the upheavals of war with al Qaeda, the surest indicator of the historic stakes is the ongoing rotation of top U.S. government managers - scores at a time - into a bunker deep underground and far from Washington.

My hip was a lot better when I woke up this morning. I'm relieved that I can walk around without any sharp pain. I putted great and holed some long putts, ... On 17, I tried to hit a hard seven iron instead a cruisy six iron and blocked it right. I played a good bunker shot but missed the par putt from three feet. That's life.

If we're playing into the wind, that's a very small green to be hitting a mid-iron into. In some cases, I can see playing for the front bunker and trying to get up and down (for par) if I have to hit a long iron there.

She hit the ball really well on the front side, caught a couple of unlucky breaks and her bunker play was extremely good.

She can't bunker up for a few days amidst rampant rumors of her leaving the race and not have something dramatic to say. My sense is she's going to opt to stay (in the race) and make a statement that fits into that dramatic category.

Because of the history of the Old Course, moving hazards is not the option it would be at many other places, ... You can't simply move a bunker here and there on The Old Course. All that leaves is to move tees.

I always think of that bunker shot on the 10th. Sure. It was the tee shot I wanted to forget, and a bunker shot I want to remember. But they were good memories. I had a chance to win.

I finished good down the stretch today, as I did yesterday. (On No. 18), I had to get it up and hope it landed softly. I've been working a lot on my bunker shots this winter, so I feel good about it. ... It would have been really hard if I were in the rough. I was glad I was in the bunker.

I was always taught that the first rule of bunker play is to just get the ball out. When you have a steep face in front of you, this rule applies more than ever. Here, you have to get the ball up in the air as quickly as possible.

That bunker shot went in and I've been four feet off the ground ever since,

I was very pleased with pars on the last two holes, especially on the 18th, where I had a bad stance in the bunker at the back of the green,

It confirms the belief that the weakness in retail sales was the result of a bunker mentality in the wake of the terrible events of Sept. 11.

I was playing with this guy one time, and he was shooting a hundred and fifty, probably. We got to the last hole, and it took him about seven to get to a bunker on the green. Then he picked a leaf up right by his ball, in the bunker, which is a two-stroke penalty. Then he was leaning on his sand wedge in the bunker, grounding his club, so there's another two-stroke penalty, so he was 11. And then he hit that one about a foot in front of him in 12, and then he got that on to about 8 feet and made the putt. So he makes his putt, and I say, 'Joe, great putt. Is that a 4?' And he goes, 'Oh, no. Six.' It was really like a 14 or something.

The 6-iron I hit out of the bunker was what saved the whole day. To be able to hit that shot, make the putt and go to the next hole, hit it right down the middle and make a birdie, two birdies in a row.

My bunker shot was made easier when Jim didn't hit it close. If I just hit it on the green, I win the tournament.

The fact that people were actually talking about nuclear- bunker busting for the first time is what scared people. This is going to drag on for months and months and months.

We did the same thing we did against Mohawk. We moved two of our best guys back on defense. We're kind of setting up a bunker and hoping to mount a counterattack.

We definitely want to get the ball inside, whether it's to 'Kat' or Taylor (Deal). Bunker Hill did a good job the first half of pinching down on them, but our guards got the ball to them in the second half.

We're still monitoring the Bunker Hill Road situation. We want to make sure Hereford students and motorists are safe.

The vice president's secrecy on this and other issues, as well as his numerous false statements concerning pre-war intelligence, is part of a larger pattern of above-the-law, bunker mentality that the Bush administration has embraced.

We did a better job of running the lanes and pushing the ball up. After eight days off you get rusty. That's why I wanted to push the ball ... get in rhythm. Travis Bunker had an outstanding game in the second half.

I wanted to get close to the pin without putting the bunker in play. All of a sudden he just kept talking about a straight shot. I don't know how many times you hit a straight shot in golf. It's very seldom. You either work it right to left or left to right, depending on the pin.

Northfield is a very tough, physical team, and they go in and play very hard. Unfortunately we just couldn't break their bunker defense today.

They totally took advantage of us. They were storing like they wanted to fill a bunker for a nuclear disaster.

Tee-to-green, I'm streaky, but I'm still very good at times, ... My short game, as far as bunker and chipping, is still pretty good.

There's still a bunker mentality within the school system that's very difficult to break into, to get them to talk to us before they make decisions, ... But there's been some improvement." ()

I needed it, ... I didn't make anything until a 13-footer at No. 9, then threw that away with a three-putt at the 10th where I missed the hole from 2 feet. Then I birdied 13 and 15 but missed from 8 feet after hitting a great bunker shot at 16. It was disappointing to keep giving shots right back.

I made a really pretty birdie at 10, hit a nice five iron in there to about 10 feet. I made a bomb at 16 that was about 50 feet. Then I got up and down at 17 from the front right bunker and 18, I got it up and down from short of the left bunker.

I had a bad break there, a lot of mud on my ball on the fairway and it squirted into a dodgy lie in the bunker but I made a great save.

I just made a mess of it. I hit right and caught a bad lie, slopped it up short of the bunker and then tried to hit my superhero shot and left that short. Then I chipped it by and missed the putt.

I hit such a great second shot here at 18 and then Dana hit that great bunker shot. You get to 17 and anything can happen. Unfortunately, neither of us played the hole very well, but I feel bad for Dana that he finished that way.

I hit two really nice shots and then just chickened out on a bunker shot and left it way short. I wasn't in position to make birdie, and he was. And I made the putt and he didn't. All of a sudden, it looked from potentially going back to 2 up for him ... now we're all square.

I hit a bad tee shot, in the fairway bunker, then I caught it a little heavy and hit it in the bunker short of the green, then missed about a 20-footer for par. It was just kind of a nightmare hole for me.

I hit a bad tee shot in the fairway bunker, then I caught it a little heavy and hit it in the bunker short of the green, then missed about a 20-footer for par. It was just kind of a nightmare hole for me.

I hit a really good shot on the green out of the fairway bunker then made that putt. After that I thought that maybe it could be my day.

In Washington, a program is never 'stake-through-the-heart' dead, but it's safe to say that the nuclear bunker buster is dead for at least three years.

I have to give that to lack of knowledge of the golf course. For some reason, I think that right side that you can get to that far bunker out there. I'm not long enough to get to that bunker. I tried to take a little more off than I can chew. I thought it was going to fly into the bunker and it didn't even get close.

I didn't hit enough good iron shots when I had to, and Geoff did. And when he didn't he hit a great pitch or bunker shot, or great putt to stay right in it.

It wasn't a bunker shot I walked up to and said, 'Hey, let's make this one,' ... It was one of those, 'Let's get it close and get out of here.' It was my time. That's all there is to it.

It wasn't a bunker shot you say, 'Hey, let's make this one,'

You could bury three elephants in that bunker. I think Nicklaus designed that bunker at night.

They need to have a mental clearance sale at the White House. We're not anywhere near the Nixon bunker crisis, but what's going on over there right now is a serious problem.

It was feast or famine. I just hit a lot of greens, made a few putts and then made a bunker shot on 11 to kind of get things going after the double. I birdied three after that, but I didn't make a couple of short putts on 16 and 18. However, you can't be disappointed with 65 around here.

We had to bunker in and execute on set plays. But we did, and I'm happy we were able to win in an overtime situation.

Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker was a genius at work, God's gift to the world. He is etched permanently in our memories.

I completely disagree. The Road Hole bunker has never been the same from one Open to the next. To say it has been ruined from what it was is completely false. I think that bunker has improved from what it was.

If I'd gone 0 for 3 on bunker shots coming home, I'd have been disappointed.

If he's in the area, somebody's got to be taking care of him, or he's in such a well-supplied bunker that he's not needing to come out for anything, ... The other possibility is he's out of the area completely.

Among the field at the Canadian men's amateur golf championship, ... were Andrew Parr, Dave Bunker and Ryan Yip, who may want to blame his putting for his second-round loss.