There is a popular misconception that if are you taking free relief from a sprinkler head (see Rule 16.1), then you must stay in the same “cut of grass” that you were in. That is not the case.
Be prepared to defend your intended choice of club, stance or swing when trying to take relief from a drain, sprinkler head or any artificial objects such as cartpaths, irrigational control boxes, etc.
As golf courses have become more eco-friendly, there is a good chance you’ll soon encounter, if you haven’t already, an area marked as a “no-play zone”. The term was added to cover a number of marked areas of the course where your ball is not out-of-bounds, yet you’re not allowed to hit a shot.
If you want to know how to deal with pine straw – and loose impediments in general – in terms of removing them and playing your next shot without penalty, read on.
With a mere couple of taps of his club behind a ball in the rough, reigning US Open champion Wyndham Clark caused a stir on the television broadcast of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and, of course, in many golf corners of social media.
Since the Rules of Golf have been greatly modified in the past five years, many terms we’ve all been accustomed to saying are technically no longer considered part of the game.
The general principal of Rule 8 is to “play the course as you find it”. But there are times when you’re allowed to lift your ball and clean it beyond the putting green.
Australian Golf Digest
