HawkeyeMS
Ryder Cup Winner
Playing today, one of my FCs hit his ball into the trees on the left of the 5th where it clattered around for a bit but no-one saw it drop. We eventually found it in the ditch that runs alongside the hole (red hazard) so I said "the only thing we need to do is establish where it last crossed". I was then rounded on by my partner and both the other pair telling me that it was a red hazard so it doesn't matter where it crossed and that you take your drop from where the ball is. I argued they were wrong and was told that it only matters where it crossed in a yellow hazard. We looked up the rule, they all learned something.
Later on, I hit my ball into the lateral hazard to the left of the 11th. As it happened, our competition secretary and rules guru(?!) who was driving around the course as marshal happened to be on the hole and saw my ball go into the hazard. I marked two club lengths from where he told me it crossed (about 3 yards behind where it lay), dropped the ball which rolled closer to the hole. I picked it up, dropped again and again it rolled closer. As I went to pick it up he said, "that's in play, what was wrong with the 1st drop". I told him it had rolled closer to the hole and he told me that it didn't matter because it wasn't closer than where the ball lay in the ditch and I had to play it from where it was I argued, he said I was wrong...I gave up.
Later on, I hit my ball into the lateral hazard to the left of the 11th. As it happened, our competition secretary and rules guru(?!) who was driving around the course as marshal happened to be on the hole and saw my ball go into the hazard. I marked two club lengths from where he told me it crossed (about 3 yards behind where it lay), dropped the ball which rolled closer to the hole. I picked it up, dropped again and again it rolled closer. As I went to pick it up he said, "that's in play, what was wrong with the 1st drop". I told him it had rolled closer to the hole and he told me that it didn't matter because it wasn't closer than where the ball lay in the ditch and I had to play it from where it was I argued, he said I was wrong...I gave up.