Official Golf Rules: Water Hazards

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This Gene Mortensen with the Oklahoma Golf Association I like to talk to you about rule twenty-six which is the rule that applies to water hazards. We have a water hazard as defined and then there is the second item called the let it roll water hazard. I like to just talk about what is a water hazard in this particular segment. A water hazard is a area which the committee has defined by the yellows stakes you could see them and yellow lines. It is the committees responsibilities to see that all the areas are popularly marked. In this particular case we have the teeing ground where I'm standing and then it goes across a island and then it get to the surface of the green. The critical point that we mush establish If we have a ball in the water hazard has it has last crossed the boundary of the water hazard. In this particular case you would see I have a boundary here. I have a boundary in front of the island. I have a boundary on the opposite side of the island and there is the edge of the green itself. Because, we have a water hazard which is marked by a yellow there are only two option that we have. First is to drop a ball where we last played the original shot. I'm standing on a teeing ground if I were to tee up a ball, strike it,and hit it up onto the water one of the option is to play again from here and since I'm in a teeing ground it is permissible for me to retee the ball. The only other option we have because it is a water hazard is to go were we crossed the margin or boundary of the hazard and a draw a imaginary line on that point to the flag stick and drop on a extension of that line going back away from the hazard. So in a particular example if we last crossed the water hazard on the opposite side of that island we would determine that point in a line with the flag and we would be back on the island playing the next shot or we could extend that line as far back as we like to go and probably end up to the right over here some place. Again its a water hazard, it has been defined as a water hazard by the committee, they have marked it with yellow stakes, and yellow lines which means we have only those two options. It is not permissible in taking relief under a water hazard rule to drop the ball on the side of the hazard on the opposite side of the hazard you must keep the ball the drop ball or the hazard between the ball you would drop and the flag stick itself.

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