Rules Query Regarding OOB

[smange]

Hi Guys

Yesterday while playing a stableford comp at our place I hit a bad drive up the right of the 3rd hole, it bounced towards OOB so I played a provisional just in case.

There is a small ridge running up the right hand side, which the white stakes marking OOB sit right on top of, now there is also a white line painted on the grass which the greenstaff have not painted in a straight line between the stakes.

My ball lay about two inches over the white line on the grass but clearly inside the line between the white stakes. So my question is what defines the OOB line? Is it the stakes or the white line?

I played my provisional as i wasnt sure so was i right to do so?

 

[freddielong]

I would say that the line is the boundry as it is there, if there was no line then you would take a line between the two stakes so you are OOB imo

 

[Robobum]

“Out of bounds’’ is beyond the boundaries of the course or any part of the course so marked by the Committee.
When out of bounds is defined by reference to stakes or a fence or as being beyond stakes or a fence, the out of bounds line is determined by the nearest inside points at ground level of the stakes or fence posts (excluding angled supports). When both stakes and lines are used to indicate out of bounds, the stakes identify out of bounds and the lines define out of bounds.
When out of bounds is defined by a line on the ground, the line itself is out of bounds. The out of bounds line extends vertically upwards and downwards.
A ball is out of bounds when all of it lies out of bounds. A player may stand out of bounds to play a ball lying within bounds.
Objects defining out of bounds such as walls, fences, stakes and railings are not obstructions and are deemed to be fixed. Stakes identifying out of bounds are not obstructions and are deemed to be fixed.
Note 1: Stakes or lines used to define out of bounds should be white.
Note 2: A Committee may make a Local Rule declaring stakes identifying but not defining out of bounds to be movable obstructions.

 

[smange]

I would say that the line is the boundry as it is there, if there was no line then you would take a line between the two stakes so you are OOB imo

That was my thinking freddie but as you say if there is no line its a straight line between the stakes but this was quite clearly not a straight line between the stakes but a badly painted one, and one thats not usually there so last week i would have been in play and this week OOB