Relief from cart path...onto grass strip in the cart path ?

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Among other issues, the alignment of thick rough on one side of such a roadway brings problems, providing comparatively greater assistance for LH or RH players depending on which side of the fairway the path/rough is on. In the ideal world, a Committee should be avoiding this. It would also make most sense to define both lanes and the middle strip as part of one single ACC/relief condition. This would avoid anyone arguing the parallel road strips are separate immovable obstructions, producing dropping complexity that would go over the heads of the majority of golfers and could result in inconsistent player behaviour. Again, Committees need to have the weather eye out to avoid such issues.
On one hole we have a track running parallel with the fairway, very close to the boundary hedge and only separated from it by a narrow (<3ft) verge of long grass, shrubs, nettles etc. Such were the debates about where to drop when taking relief from the track - dropping in verge or out of bounds etc, that we defined Out of Bounds along the course boundary side of the track. In another similar scenario on another hole with track, verge and boundary, we made Out of Bounds along the fairway side of the track. In both scenarios no more debates.
 
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