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An obstruction is either a movable obstruction or an immovable obstruction, although the Committee may define a movable obstruction to be an immovable obstruction.

You are correct. In the circumstance you describe, the ball is in the general area and free relief would be available under Rule 16.1b. The term is penalty area, not water hazard.

Four-Ball Someone's got to say it 😱😏 (With acknowledgement to rulefan.)

The reminder in post #5, above, is worth reiterating, too.

Yes. Rule 6.2. The teeing area Rules apply whenever a player is required or allowed to play a ball from the teeing area. This includes when the player is starting play of the hole, the player will play again from the teeing area under a Rule, or (and this is the one relevant to your scenario)...

The robotic mower might be a remote possibility, but the same principle would apply if the ball played from the putting green hit any number of far more plausible movable obstructions on the putting green (e.g. a towel, a club other than the club used to make the stroke, a golf bag), or another...

It makes no difference whether the mower is stationary or moving. In this scenario, all that matters is that the ball is on the putting green when it is played and the movable obstruction is on the putting green when the ball hits it. Where the stationary/moving status is important is in...

There is no conflict. It is just written in a way that can be hard for the casual observer to follow. The first sentence provides general guidance to play the ball as it lies: If a player’s ball in motion played from the putting green accidentally hits the player or an outside influence, the...

It would be nice to say that 11.1b(2) is as plain as day, but this is one that the authors have over-complicated. I have made my own little precis of this Rule to try and de-complicate it. The correct answer is to replay the stroke. Who was in charge of the questions and answers and suggesting...

It seems a while since I have contributed so, just to be pernickity, the modernised Rules were introduced in January 2019, not 2020. Interestingly (?), pre-2019 Rule 20-1 said 'The position of the ball must be marked before it is lifted under a Rule that requires it to he replaced', which is...

Not an insurmountable problem, which they already deal with in other aspects. For example: The hole must be 4 ¼ inches (108 mm) in diameter and at least 4 inches (101.6 mm) deep. A tee must be no longer than four inches (101.6 mm)

What if we rotated the paper by 90 degrees around its z axis, rather than its x or y axis? (terminology which would also be dependendent on context and a standardised frame of reference) Could we then say that the paper is about 0.07mm long?

It didn't quite say that. Context is everything. Just as context and a frame of reference would be necessary to understand the differences between length, width, height, depth, thickness, etc in engineering applications. The original article said (and I quote): "The relief area for preferred...

A measurement of, say, 11 inches would require every player to carry around with them another piece of equipment - a ruler or tape measure.

Not an argument you are going to win. A quick check of the first online dictionary I came aross defined length as: the measurement or extent of something from end to end; the greater of two or the greatest of three dimensions of an object.