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Footprints, sandy greens and sore ankles: Why poor bunker raking rankles golfers

LOS ANGELES - It might seem like a dream job, wearing shorts in the sunshine and walking the verdant fairways of the most beautiful golf courses on the planet, sometimes for big paychecks.

But being a PGA Tour caddie can be a drag, too. And there's a lot of smoothing over for your pro. The most mundane part of the job is among the most important: meticulously raking a sand trap after a golfer has hit out of it.

"If you're a neat freak, which some of us are, which I am, you want to make sure it looks really good, better than it looked when it

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