'Johnson bunker' will not be an issue at Whistling Straits

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The so-called bunker that cost Dustin Johnson a spot in the playoff at the 2010 PGA Championship will not be an issue when the tournament returns to Whistling Straits this week, according to New Zealander Frank Nobilo. "That bunker on 18 is actually halfway under a sponsor stand now, which is a touch of irony there, so he'd get relief (a free drop outside the bunker)," former PGA Tour winner Nobilo said during a pre-tournament conference call. Whistling Straits, situated adjacent to Lake Michigan in the Wisconsin countryside, has about 1,000 bunkers, but the edges of many are so indistinct that it is difficult to know where they begin and end.

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