The argument is this! In our view (the twosome)a ball is hit over a tree that is the beginning of the woods tailing to go deeper. Once again there are no stakes at all, just a heavily wooded area. The ball was found in center of wooded area. After driving cart to search ball, there's an opening of fair play behind tree (couldn't visually see ball fly in fair play but had a fair possibility its flight traveled in bound past tree. Want to know if you can't see entire flight whats the fairest measure to take? Does he drop past tree where it may have flown in fair play or does he not get to advance ball and drop in line of visual entry?
2007-07-26 01:34:23 · 12 answers · asked by lou r 1 in Sports ➔ Golf
Neither! If his ball is found in a wooded area which is not staked as out of bounds or a hazzard, he should play the ball as it lies. He gets NO relief. If he feels he cannot play the ball there, he can declare it unplayable, and under penalty of one stroke he could either:
1) Play the ball as near as possible from the original spot.
2) Drop 2 club lengths (not nearer to the hole.)
3) Drop behind the point that the ball lies, keeping the point directly between the hole and where the ball is dropped.
Since 2 & 3 keep you in the wooded area, number 1 is your best option.
Seth E, you're only half right. You are correct, there is no free drop as has been suggested. However, If the woods were out-of-bounds, you do not take a drop where the ball entered the woods like you state. You would have to go back to the spot where you hit the last shot and replay from there, with a stroke penalty. You only take a drop at the location your ball entered a hazzard. Out of bounds is not a hazzard. This is rule 27-1.
2007-07-26 01:46:17 · answer #1 · answered by dsl67 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋
if the ball was found in the wood area and the area is not market by either a white, yellow or red stake, it would mean it is through the green:
Option 1. Play the ball as it lies
Option 2: Declare the ball unplayable and proceed under the unplayable rule.
a. Dropping within 2 clubs where the ball was found
b. Drop as far back keeping the line of the flag stick and where the ball was found.
Option 3: Hit from where you last played the ball,
All options carry a one stroke penalty.
Ball that headed to the woods and not found is a LOST BALL
you must reload and take a 2 stroke penalty
2007-07-26 09:40:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Lou, you asked this same question yesterday. The answer hasn't changed.
You get no drop! You play it as it lies!
You can declare it an unlayable lie, but your options are limited.
There is no such thing as "line of flight" in the rules of golf.
There is no such thing as a "heavily wooded area" in the rules of golf. The only defined areas in golf are: The teeing ground, hazards (including bunkers), out of bounds, the green, and "through the green" (meaning every other area of the course).
The rules of golf are based on "equity". That means everybody has to play the game the same way. They are not based on what one person may consider "fair".
2007-07-26 11:55:41 · answer #3 · answered by John F 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
ds167 is right.
This is a common misconception among amateur golfers. What you and your playing partner were thinking about was "line of flight" when the ball entered the woods. Am I right? Well, going by "line of flight" to determine where you can drop a ball does not refer to the flight the ball took getting to that spot if the ball does not come to rest in a hazzard. And since you stated the woods were not marked in any way, they are not a hazzard unless so described by local rules.
2007-07-26 10:39:22 · answer #4 · answered by Asterisk 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
ok. you have the choice to play the ball where it lies or you can take a latteral drop no closer to the whole if you take a latteral drop its 2 strokes counting the stroke of his next shot. either way he might as well take the drop because he has to hit it back into play and its all going to calculate the same he hits it back into play thats one and then to the green thats two same as if he took a drop.
2007-07-26 12:33:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Play as it lie or take a penetly for a drop
2007-07-29 18:56:15 · answer #6 · answered by jjk_2211 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Is there any clear line for a possibility of just punching it back out to the fairway and into play?
2007-07-26 08:41:30 · answer #7 · answered by JOSEPHLB 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
no drop at all.. unless marked off due to course construction, the player has to play the ball where it lies..
if out of bounds... play where the ball entered.. with of course your stroke penalty
2007-07-26 10:31:11 · answer #8 · answered by Seth E 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
http://www.usga.org/playing/rules/books/rules/rule28.html
2007-07-27 08:35:56 · answer #9 · answered by Steve 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No Doug! He has to play it as it lies. I had to hit it off Frankenstein's fat foot, remember?
2007-07-26 08:40:33 · answer #10 · answered by BOSTONboy 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋