Lefties Only Golf Tips: Now one thing people do have to bear in mind when they're in the bunker is what the different types of sand bar and also how weather conditions can affect different types of sand as well. Because it does become apparent when you play different courses just how different the sand can be for example over here in the UK in the northwest of the UK there are a lot of links courses and when you go to play those bunkers they are very different than say an inland Parkland course.