One of the wonderful aspects of the game of golf is that every round is different. Even on the same course you never play exactly the same round.
Fourteen clubs, 6,700 yards, 120 acres and an inconsistent swing all lead to infinite possibilities during any round of golf.
And factor into that the mind of the golfer and many of us will try to play the same shot ten different ways. 
My Greek Brother is famous for his sand game. He must love bunkers because he seems to find them regularly.
And he isn’t afraid to try anything to extricate himself from those sandy hell holes.
Years ago he saw a tip on using a putter to get out of the sand and has on occasion used it successfully.
Not wanting to keep that tip to himself he shares that tip fairly often when his playing partners find the beach.
“You can putt from there” he’ll say as I make my way to my ball in the bunker.
Truthfully, I think he’s nuts but I have used his tip on occasion with a hybrid rather than his go to choice of the putter.
Rickie Fowler must have seen that same tip somewhere because over the weekend at Isleworth he took the flat stick into the sand.
But this was not one of those flat bunkers with a small lip. He was faced with a tall wall of sand but he wasn’t discouraged. Oh, the fearlessness of youth.
I can hear my Greek Brother, “Hey Rickie…you can putt from there.”
Or maybe he can’t.
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