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Playing
The Ball
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Rule
12
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Serching
for and Identifying Ball
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Definitions
A hazard
is any bunker or water hazard.
A bunker is a hazard
consisting of a prepared area c ground, often a hollow, from which
turn
or soil has bee removed and replaced with sand or the like. Grass-covere
ground bordering or
within a bunker is not part of th bunker. The margin of a bunker
extends verticall downwards,
but not upwards. A ball is in a bunker when lies in or any part
of it touches the bunker.
A water hazard is any sea, lake,
pond, river, ditch, surfac drainage ditch or other open water
course (whether or not containing water) and anything of a similar
nature.
All ground or water within the margin of a water hazard is part
of the water hazard. The margin of a water hazard, extends vertically
upwards and downwards. Stakes and line defining the margins of water
hazards are in the hazard. Such stakes are obstructions.
A ball is in a water hazard when it lies in or any part of it touches
the water hazard.
*Note 1: Water hazards (other
than lateral water hazards)
should be defined by yellow
stakes or lines.
*Note 2: The Committee
may take a Local Rule prohibitinl play from an environmentally-
sensitive area which has been defined as a water hazard. |
12-1. Serching For Ball; Seeing Ball
In searching for his ball anywhere on the course,the
player may touch or bend long grass,
rushes, bushes, whins, heather or the like, but only to the extent
neccessery to find and
identify it, provided that this does not improve the line of the
ball, the area of his intended
swing or his line of play. A
player is not necessarily entitled to see his ball when playing
a
stroke.
In a hazard, if a ball is believed
to be covered by loose impediments
or sand, the player
may remove by probing, raking or other means as much there of as
will enable him to see a
part of a ball. If an excess is removed, no penalty is incurred
and the ball shall be re-covered
so that only a part of the ball is visible. If the ball is moved
in such removal, no penalty is
incurred; the ball shall be replaced and, if necessary, re-covered.
As to removal of loose impediments outside a hazard, see Rule 23.
If a ball lying in an abnormal ground condition
is accidentally moved during search, no
penalty is incurred; the ball shall be replaced, unless the player
elects to proceed under Rule
25-1b.If the player replaces the ball, he may still proceed under
Rule 25-1b if applicable.
If a ball is believed to be lying in water in a water
hazard. the player may probe for it with a
club or otherwise. If the ball is moved in so doing, no penalty
is incurred; the ball shall be
replaced, unless the player elects to proceed under Rule 26-1.
PENALTY FOR BREACH OF RULE 12-1:
Match play -Loss of hole
Stroke play -Two strokes.
12-2. Identifying Ball
The responsibility for playing the proper ball rests with the player.
Each player should put an
identification mark on his ball.
Except in a hazard. the player
may. without penalty. lift a ball he believes to be his own for
the purpose of identification and clean it to the extent necessary
for identification. If the ball is the
player's ball. he shall replace it. Before lifting the ball. the
player must announce his intention to his opponent in match play
or his marker or a fellow-competitor
in stroke play and mark
the position of the ball. He must then give his opponent, marker
or fellow-competitor an opportunity to observe the lifting and replacement.
If he lifts his ball without announcing his
intention in advance marking the position of the baIl or giving
his opponent, i marker or fellow-
competitor an opportunity to observe, or if he lifts his ball for
identification in a hazard, or cleans
it more than necessary for identification, he
shall incur a penalty of one stroke and the ball shall
be replaced.
If a player who is required to replace a ball fails to do so, he
shall incur the penalty for a breach
of Rule 20-3a, but no additional penalty under Rule 12-2 shall be
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