Linda, if your ball travels over water marked by yellow
stakes, lands on the side of a raised green and rolls down past the yellow
hazard line and into the water, which is now low and several feet from the
yellow line, are you able to drop the ball on the dry area between the water
and the hazard line?
Lou from Memphis, Tennessee
Dear Lou,
No. Relief for a ball in
a water hazard must always be behind
the hazard, outside the area
designated by yellow stakes. If you take a look at Rule 26, you will notice
that relief option “b” (the line-of-sight option) instructs you to drop a ball behind the water hazard.
Linda
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