These slow-mo British Open pot bunker shots prove how impossible they are (for non-pros)

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You know what my favorite thing about the British Open (the Open Championship, fine) is?

POT BUNKERS! GIVE ME ALL THE POT BUNKERS.

I love that the U.S. Open is usually meant to torture golfers with impossible conditions, and the British version, to me, is similarly a joy. Sometimes, the weather is awful (and might be this weekend) and then there are these giant holes filled with sand with, like, 10-foot walls to hit over to get out.

I spent much of the morning of the first round taking in photos and videos, and we got some slow-motion goodness of golfers getting out. Check these out and tell me how amazing it is that they got out of them:

The challenge of pot bunkers.

Quintessentially links. pic.twitter.com/pbKbitSsVh

— The Open (@TheOpen) July 20, 2023

The bunkers at Hoylake. Deep and menacing.@CameronSmithPGA pic.twitter.com/lx443tADlR

— The Open (@TheOpen) July 20, 2023

Also: Christo Lamprecht did this:

The perils of links golf.

A superb recovery from Christo Lamprecht. pic.twitter.com/xPc183Wiz1

— The Open (@TheOpen) July 20, 2023

SPECTACULAR! I can’t wait to see more of this. If I ever get decent enough to play these courses, I can’t wait to hit a billion shots to try and match this. Probably isn’t going to happen.

Quick Hits: More British Open … Wow, Nick Chubb … and more.

— Amateur Christo Lamprecht is among the leaders at the 2023 British Open, so get to know him.

— Here’s Nick Chubb casually squatting 600-plus pounds again.

— Bryce Harper had the weirdest at-bat where he barely moved.

— Cory Woodroof ranked every Christopher Nolan movie.