Rule of the Week

At some point, a ball is going to be hit into a spot from which further progress is impossible. Into a bush, along a wall, into water, or even buried into a bunker. When an unplayable lie occurs, your situation dictates your options. In general though, you have three options:

• You can either pick up the ball and drop it – no nearer to the hole – within two club lengths of the original spot, with a penalty of one shot.
• You can pick up the ball, walk back as far as you want, keeping that original point between you and the hole, and then drop the ball. Again, there is a one-stroke penalty.
• You can return to the point from where you hit the original shot. This option should be used as a last resort, because you loose distance, as well as adding one-stroke point penalty.

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