Water hazard?

[guest100718]

We have a drainage ditch that runs across part of the course, It's not yellow staked for about the 1st hundred yards, but then it is for the rest of its length. Is the first un staked part still a hazard? I think it is but someone recently disagreed and proceeded to move leaves etc.

 

[pogle]

We have a drainage ditch that runs across part of the course, It's not yellow staked for about the 1st hundred yards, but then it is for the rest of its length. Is the first un staked part still a hazard? I think it is but someone recently disagreed and proceeded to move leaves etc.

From the definition of a Water Hazard
"A "water hazard" is any sea, lake, pond, river, ditch, surface drainage ditch or other open water course (whether or not containing water) and anything of a similar nature on the course. All ground and water within the margin of a water hazard are part of the water hazard."

The feature does not have to be staked or otherwise marked to make it a water hazard.

By definition, your course's drainage ditch is a water hazard - all of it, not just the section that's marked.

 

[CliveW]

The feature does not have to be staked or otherwise marked to make it a water hazard.

By definition, your course's drainage ditch is a water hazard - all of it, not just the section that's marked.

So why are there yellow stakes defining part of the drainage ditch and not all of it?

 

[duncan mackie]

We have a drainage ditch that runs across part of the course, It's not yellow staked for about the 1st hundred yards, but then it is for the rest of its length. Is the first un staked part still a hazard? I think it is but someone recently disagreed and proceeded to move leaves etc.

there are normally 2 possible reasons for such situations not to be marked -
1. someone's moved the stakes (at this time of year freezing can pop them out.
2. the committee have considered the status of the area and concluded that the WH starts where they have put stakes.

From the sound of it the first doesn't apply here, so you should ask your committee - they may well reply that they consider the area not marked to be undulations in the ground and not a drainage ditch; as already posted "it's a drainage ditch but we don't want to make it a WH" shouldn't be an option.

 

[guest100718]

Cheers, I'll inquire at the club about why its not marked out.