What Is a Bunker on a Golf Course? - LiveAbout
Updated May 24, 2019. A "bunker" is a "specially prepared area intended to test the player's ability to play a ball from the sand," as the latest edition of the Rules of Golf puts it. Bunkers, which used to be classified as "hazards" (a term that was deprecated in the 2019 edition of the rule book) on the golf course, are holes or depressions ...