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Originally Posted by Roughneck
I just don’t get why people are excited to see bunker rakes.
Increases pace of play, increases maintenance costs and reduces efficiency, increases capital costs, creates more sources of complaints, makes a course less aesthetically pleasing, all for what? Golfers are generally terrible at raking bunkers so it doesn’t improve playability either.
Golf is better without bunker rakes.
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Wow, that's a hot take.
increases pace of play? Not if your playing partners have a brain in their heads and play any kind of ready golf.
increases maintenance costs and reduces efficiency? what? How? The average course might replace a few rakes a year? OMG!
increases capital costs? You've already listed the cost, but for ####s and giggles, the capital cost of rakes would be about 100 - 200 rakes at maybe $10 (probably less) About equal to the depreciation on one single cart in one year (and that's being generous)
Creates more sources of complaints? You mean compared to non-raked bunkers? I think not.
makes a course less aesthetically pleasing? Having unraked bunkers makes a course less aesthetically pleasing - I don't even notice rakes.
Golfers are terrible at raking bunkers? So you are arguing that a raked bunker is less playable than an unraked bunker?
Did someone assault you with a rake when you were young?