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Definitions
A water hazard is any sea, lake, pond, river, ditch, surface 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 lines defining the
margins of water hazards are in the hazards. 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 define by yellow
stakes or lines.
*Note 2: The Committee
may make a Local Rule prohibiting play from an environmentally-
sensitive area which has been defined as water hazard.
A Lateral Water Hazard
is a water hazard or that
part of a water hazard so situated that
it is not possible or is deemed by the Committee
to be impracticable to drop a ball behind the
water hazard in accordance with Rule 26-1b.
The part of the water hazard should be distinctively marked. A
ball is in a lateral water hazard
when it lies in or any part of it touches the lateral water hazard.
*Note 1:Lateral water hazards
should be defined by red stakes or lines.
*Note 2: The Committee
may make a Local Rule prohibiting play from an environmentally-
sensitive area which has been defined as a leteral water hazard.
*Note 3: The Committee may
define a lateral water hazard as a water hazard.
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26-1 Ball in Water Hazard
It is a question of fact wheather a bsll lost after having been
struck toward a water hazard
is lost inside or outside the hazard. In order to treat the ball
as lost in hazard, there must be
reasonable evidence that the ball lodge in it. In the absence
of such evidence, the ball must
be treated as a lost ball
and Rule 27 applies.
If a ball is in or is lost in a water hazrd (wheather the ball
lies in water or not ), the player may
under penalty of one stroke:
a. Play a ball as nearly as possible at the spot from which
the original ball last played (see
Rule 20-5); or
b. Drop a ball behined the water hazard, keeping the point
at which the original ball last
crossed the margin of the water hazard directly between thehole
and the spot on which the
ball
is dropped, with no limit to how far behind the water hazard the
ball may be dropped; or
c. As additional options available only if the ball last
crossed the margin of a lteral water
hazard, drop the ball outside the water hazard within two club-lengths
of and not nearer the
hole than(i) the point where the original ball last crossed the
margin of the water hazard or (ii)
a point on the opposite margin of the water hazard equidistant
from the hole.
The ball may be cleaned when lifted under this Rule.
(Ball moving in water inwater hazard - see Rule 14-6)
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