Colin L
Tour Winner
As a postscript to the above, the recommendation that the Committee fit a mesh or something to prevent balls in a water hazard being carried OOB suggests that it is not envisaged that going OOB is a fair or desirable outcome Can we carry that across to the moving casual water and consider that your ball being swept into a hazard by casual water is not a fair or desirable outcome too?
Coming at it from the angle of a fair and desirable outcome (thinking while wielding a spade in the garden!), the provision of relief from an abnormal ground condition is presumably based on the principle that a player should not be disadvantaged by an unusual condition that is not part of the normal challenges of a golf course. So relief from casual water is absolute: the water shouldn't be there and if your ball lands in it you are entitled not to be disadvantaged by it in any way - including having your ball being swept away into a water hazard. So on that basis, I see the fairness of allowing the player to stop it and take relief from that point of reference.
Thanks for setting off that train of thought , verschup.
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