Rules: water hazards

[daymond]

Am I correct that if you hit your ball over a water hazard and it lands beyond the far margin but then rolls back inside the margin you may drop inside the margin (if possible)under penalty?
Definitive answers please.

 

[hovis]

hope this helps pal

http://youtu.be/4yo0Iq1JvXA

 

[Losttheplot]

It doesn't matter how the ball got in there, it only matters where it is when it comes to rest.

 

[daymond]

Thanks for that charly 3. Now I can settle an ongoing debate!

 

[jasondransfieldgolf]

You can't drop a ball in the hazard, but one of your options is to drop it the side that the ball enter the hazard as long as it is not nearer the hole.

 

[Fyldewhite]

You can't drop in the hazard. You have to keep the place it last crossed the margin between you and the flag and go back on the line. The reference point would be on the green side where it rolled back in but you would have to drop back on the fairway side. You could also take stroke and distance. If the hazard is a lateral (red stakes) then you theoretically could drop on the green side if there was a place within two clubs of the reference point that is not nearer the hole.

 

[RGDave]

hope this helps pal

http://youtu.be/4yo0Iq1JvXA

Nice one. I watched this and it made good sense to me (not that I was confused on this particular topic).

Is there one for the difference between water hazards and lateral water hazards?

 

[CliveW]

Is there one for the difference between water hazards and lateral water hazards?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uByDf9wq-w&feature=related

 

[Matty]

Bugger - those are great videos. Watching them takes 5 minutes and is instantly understandable - way better than trawling the rules and drawing your own pictures!

 

[Yerman]

This happened last year and I know what happened wasn't right but I wasn't able to make out the correct options.

From the tee the ball came to rest in a lateral water hazard (Red stakes) on the edge of a small stream just touching the water. The player decided to play it as it lay and shanked it forward and right and into the same stream where it wound forward and across the fairway and where it now was a water hazard (yellow stakes). It wasn't clear if the ball ever left the hazard except if the point where the ball crossed from red to yellow hazard -is this one hazard or two. The ball was now submerged and unplayable but recovered. The player decided to drop behind the hazard where the ball finished - this is undoubtedly wrong but what options did he have?

One for Bob I think.

 

[MashieNiblick]

While we're waiting for Bob, I have done a bit of research. It's an interesting one.

This appears to be covered by
Rule 26-2 - Ball Played Within Water Hazard
a. Ball Comes to Rest in Same or Another Water Hazard

Also have a look at
Decision 26-2/1 Explanation of Options Under Rules 26-2a and -2b

Decision 26-2/2 Ball Played from Within Hazard Comes to Rest in Same Hazard After Exiting Hazard

Decision 26-1/12 Hazard Marked as Water Hazard Where Ball Last Crosses Margin and as Lateral Hazard Where Ball Comes to Rest

http://www.randa.org/en/Rules-and-Amateu...mp;subRuleNum=2

Quite a long complicated rule which sets out a number of options. However it would seem, as you suspected, that if the player's ball never actually exited the hazard, what the player did in the case you describe was wrong as, following the principle in Decision 26-1/12 it appears it should be treated as one hazard.

Must say though I'm still not entirely sure.

 

[RGDave]

Is there one for the difference between water hazards and lateral water hazards?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uByDf9wq-w&feature=related

Super. Thanks.

 

[chrisd]

Bugger - those are great videos. Watching them takes 5 minutes and is instantly understandable - way better than trawling the rules and drawing your own pictures!

Best way to learn arn't they!


Chris