There’s the Road Hole bunker on the Old Course at St. Andrew’s, and Pine Valley in New Jersey, home to two exceptional, famously branded sand traps. There’s Hell’s Half Acre, whose name says it all. And The Devil’s Butt (the word is more detailed than ‘butt’ but you can fill in the blank). It guards the small, dicey green on Pine Valley’s par three 10th, a hole I’m grateful to have played a few times.

If I ever get a chance to design a real golf course, it will have a one-of-a-kind, signature bunker. I’ve seen its inspiration in the flesh, on a hike through Torngat Mountains National Park, here on the northeast coast of Labrador. This part of our country, across the Davis Strait from Greenland, is home to some of the most stunning geography one could ever lay eyes on.

My bunker would be known in golf circles far and wide as The Torngat Bunker.

And just as an architect might say, “I started with this room as my........

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