"They're deep with steep walls, much like a miniature swimming pool."

Doug Ferguson on the water bunkers at Lytham, where the saturated earth is sending ground water into many of the 205 pits, leading to some strange dilemmas.

No one said it was unfair. No one said the bunkers should have been declared out of play, as was the case for one bunker in the U.S Women's Open at Newport Country Club in 2006. After all, bunkers are supposed to be hazards.

These certainly were.

''A lot of bunkers out there are pretty much out of play,'' Branden Grace of South Africa said. ''That was the main goal for myself today, to stay out of them.''

Update on 2012-07-21 11:18 by Geoff

**The Telegraph's Matt Scott, quoting Graeme McDowell about the bunkers following a second round 69 that left him T5:

"I saw one in particular left of the 16th green, if you hit it in there, there’s nowhere to drop and there’s a foot of water. That’s not golf.

“It’s not fair. A few of these bunkers that are question marks need to be taken out of play. Hopefully they can get them dried out overnight.

“The golf course has remained unbelievably dry considering how much rain we’ve had. The bunkers are a little dodgy in some places, unfortunately.”