Taking clubs into a hazard.

[Franco]

I know that with certain qualifications, there is no penalty if a player 'places his clubs in a hazard' (rule 13.4). Indeed the illustrated rules show a bag lying in a bunker. A debate arose today when a player took his trolley into a red staked, lateral water hazard to find his ball. This large natural bowl to the left of a par 5 fairway is bone dry for most of the year and similar to the rough elsewhere on the course. He stopped moving his trolley when he found his ball. Is there a penalty?

 

[woody69]

No. Why would it be?

 

[user2010]

Another Golf myth rears it`s ugly head!:thup:

 

[Franco]

No. Why would it be?

I would need to ask the players who believed there was a penalty. I was a lone voice saying that it was allowed.

 

[woody69]

It's scenarios like that make people think the rules of golf are more complex than they actually are