Mole hills abnormal ground.

[effayjay]

If a mole hill has been flattened leaving a patch of soil surrounded by grass is the area of soil considered to be abnormal ground and subject to relief?

 

[backwoodsman]

If a mole hill has been flattened leaving a patch of soil surrounded by grass is the area of soil considered to be abnormal ground and subject to relief?

Decision 25/23 says that you get relief from the remains of a molehill provided it is still identifiable as the cast of a burrowing animal. So yes.

But if there could be doubt about whether it is the remains of a molehill, I think you'd probably have to rule against and play as it lies.

 

[effayjay]

Decision 25/23 says that you get relief from the remains of a molehill provided it is still identifiable as the cast of a burrowing animal. So yes.

But if there could be doubt about whether it is the remains of a molehill, I think you'd probably have to rule against and play as it lies.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Norrin Radd]

do you get relief if the molehill is in the rough?

 

[Foxholer]

do you get relief if the molehill is in the rough?

Yes! That's (hopefully) where they normally are!

But the couple of occasions I've been on a (flattened) one, it's been better to play it as it lay.