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Rerief
Situations and Procedure
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Rule
25
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Abnormal
Ground Conditions, Embedded Ball and Wrong Putting Green
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Definitions
An abnonnal ground condition
is any casual water, ground under repair
or hole,
cast or runway on the course
made by a burrowing animal,
a reptile or a bird.
A burrowing animal is an animal
that makes a hole for habitation or shelter, such as a rabbit,
mole, ground hog, gopher or salamander.
*Note: A hole made by a non-burrowing
animal, such as a dog, is not an abnormal
ground
condition unless marked or declared as ground
under repair.
Casual water is any temporary
accumulation of water on the course
which is visible before
or after the player takes his stance
and is not in a water hazard.
Snow and natural ice,
other than frost, are either casual water or loose impediments,
at the option of the player.
Manufactured ice an obstruction. Dew and frost are not casual
water. A ball in casual water
when it lies in or any part of it touches th casual water.
Ground under repair is any
part of the course so marked
by order of the Committee
or
so declared by its authorised representative. It includes material
piled for removal and a hole
made by a greenkeeper, even if not so marked.
All ground and any grass, bush, tree or other growing thing I
within the ground under repair is
part of the ground under I repair. The margin of ground under
repair extends vertically
downwards,but not upwards. Stakes and lines defining ground under
repair are in such ground.
Such stakes are obstructions.
A ball is in ground under repair when it lies in or any part of
it
touches the ground under repair.
*Note 1: Grass cuttings and other
material left on the course
which have been abandoned
and are not intended to be removed are not ground under repair
unless so marked.
*Note 2: The Committee
may make a Local Rule prohibiting play from ground under repair
or an environmentally- sensitive area which has been defined as
ground under repair.
The nearest point of relief
is the reference point for taking relief without penalty from
interference by an immovable obstruction
(Rule 24-2), an abnormal ground condition
(Rule 25 -1) or a wrong putting green
(Rule 25- 3 ).
It is the point on the course,
nearest to where the ball lies, which is not nearer the hole and
at which, if the ball were so positioned, no interference (as
defined) would exist.
*Note: The player should determine
his nearest point of relief by using the club with which he
expects to play his next stroke to simulate the address position
and swing for such stroke.
A wrong putting green
is any putting green other
than that Rule of the hole being
played. Unless otherwise prescribed by 25 the Committee,
this term includes a practice
putting green or pitching green on the course.
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