If your feet are on the cart path and your ball is three feet away, do you get free relief?
2007-10-23 14:31:59 · 10 answers · asked by rachel_k1954 1 in Sports ➔ Golf
yes, you get free relief, as long as you are taking your regular stance
2007-10-23 15:34:42 · answer #1 · answered by golfereal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To determine whether you get relief, you should take a normal stance with the club you would most likely use for the shot.
If you are standing on the path, or if the path will interefere with your swing, you get relief. Of course, you also get relief if your ball is actually on the path.
You get a drop within one club length of the nearest point of relief. It's not the *nicest* point of relief, so if the closest point is in the rough, you have to drop in the rough.
To determine the nearest point of relief, you have to look at both sides of the path. Do this BEFORE you pick up your ball.
On one side, the nearest point is just a spot a few inches off the path. Drop a tee there.
On the other side, find the closest spot where you're not on the path, and take a stance as if you're hitting a shot. Drop a tee where your clubhead is.
Now see which tee is closer to your ball, and drop within one club length (but not closer to the hole).
If you take relief, you must take full relief. If your ball rolls after you drop it so that you'd still be standing on the path, then you must drop it again.
If you decide that your nearest point of relief will give you a worse lie (for example, you'd have to drop in thick rough), you can decide to play it as it lies, as long as you haven't picked up your ball yet.
2007-10-24 04:27:17 · answer #2 · answered by John F 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any player, whose ball is on a cart path may take relief to the NEAREST side which grants him full relief from the cart path. If that side puts him into the woods or a briar patch , so be it. He holds the ball , at shoulder height, arm outstretched, and drops. If the ball rolls more than one club length and rolls nearer the hole he must re drop. If he re drops and it rolls again more than one club length or nearer the hole he is entitled to place the ball at the spot where the last re drop hit the ground. The ball is then considered in play.
2016-05-25 07:36:24 · answer #3 · answered by dimple 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You get a two club length relief on the side of the path your ball is on, no closer to the hole. Rule 24-2
2007-10-24 10:06:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You get relief but it must be on the side where the ball lies and not closer to the hole. If your relief is near a boundary wall or fence you might want to just play it where it is because there is no relief from a boundary line.
2007-10-23 16:48:47 · answer #5 · answered by C R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You Get Free Relief No Closer To The Hole.
2007-10-23 16:05:52 · answer #6 · answered by SWAT 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is covered in Rule 24-2, as follows:
24-2 Immovable Obstruction
a. Interference
Interference by an immovable obstruction occurs when a ball lies in or on the obstruction, or when the obstruction interferes with the player’s stance or the area of his intended swing. If the player’s ball lies on the putting green, interference also occurs if an immovable obstruction on the putting green intervenes on his line of putt. Otherwise, intervention on the line of play is not, of itself, interference under this Rule.
2007-10-23 23:24:04 · answer #7 · answered by x-15a2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it must be nearest relief no closer to the pin and 1 club length.
2007-10-26 14:07:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you get free relief.
Here:
http://www.usga.org/playing/rules/books/rules/rule24.html
The cart path is man made, and is obviously immovable so you get free relief.
2007-10-24 02:06:11 · answer #9 · answered by ♥God's Blessed Me♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you get relief DUH! you cant hit a golf ball of concrete.
2007-10-25 08:08:42 · answer #10 · answered by SiMPly ME. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋