dropping your club in the bunker

[wolf1x1]

we all know that grounding your club in the bunker is a penalty but what is the ruling if you accidently drop your club as you enter the bunker, you do not move your ball or improve its lie in anyway, its just that your club has touched the sand?

 

[chrisd]

No problem.

I believe you can even take your golf bag in the bunker and stand it up so long as you arnt testing the sand. If you stumble in the bunker and ground your club trying to protect yourself from falling is ok too

 

[Colin L]

See Decision 13-4/05 for examples of actions in a hazard that do not constitute breaches of Rule 13-4, including placing clubs in the hazard. (Dropping a club accidentally is considered the same.)

http://www.usga.org/Rule-Books/Rules-of-Golf/Decision-13/#13-4/0.5