SunWolf

Appreciate all the replies, thank you for the advice.

Plenty of good advice above. In sum, any constructions on a course like this - pathways, drainage or whatever - are treated under the...

Yes, in your photo it is clearly a prepared and laid area.

That was my stance on it too, there is no markings/stakes around it and nothing on the scorecard so I took a free drop with an asterisks...

I guess Wabinez was suggesting if there was nothing specific on the scorecard or in the LRs saying otherwise then it was as defined in...

Doesn't need to be for it to be an immoveable obstruction, which it clearly looks like to me.

It's an immovable obstruction.

To me this looks to be an abnormal course condition (immovable obstruction) and, unless a local rule states otherwise, you would be...

Check the scorecard and view the local rules…

Sorry, I meant to mention that it's not on the local rules on the scorecard or in the clubhouse

This was my lie after a tee shot on a par three rolled off a side hill beside the green over the cart path and ended up nestled beside...