The R&A, USGA, Golf Canada, and Golf Ontario all approve the following method of playing out of a bunker, when no rakes are available:
Players should be requested to make their best efforts to smooth bunkers using their feet or a club.
Even with players making their best efforts to smooth the sand, the condition of the bunkers is likely to be so abnormal that it will be clearly unreasonable for players to play the ball as it lies, it is approved to use preferred lies in bunkers.
Players are allowed to place the ball in the bunker within one club-length not nearer to the hole than where the ball came to rest.
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Taken Tuesday, when even the gulls thought it was too hot to be out in the sun!
