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Dead wood in hazard

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  • 10-09-2018 4:27pm
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    Seve OB
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    Can you move dead growth in a hazard if you elect to play the ball as it lies? As in a branch or a dead flower, already out of the ground, just lying there.


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    prawnsambo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,375 ✭✭✭✭prawnsambo


    Seve OB wrote: »
    Can you move dead growth in a hazard if you elect to play the ball as it lies? As in a branch or a dead flower, already out of the ground, just lying there.
    No. A loose impediment in a hazard can't be moved. Rule 23-1.


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    Seve OB
    Registered Users Posts: 15,874 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    prawnsambo wrote: »
    No. A loose impediment in a hazard can't be moved. Rule 23-1.

    thanks, that's what I thought, but wasn't 100% sure


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    Ollieboy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,070 ✭✭✭Ollieboy


    Great question, a guy I was playing with put his ball into the lake but the lake was dry. He had a score going so he walk in, lifted the plank and hit the ball. He had the plank lifted before I could say anything. Thankfully he mess up the shot and was out of running otherwise it would have been a very tough conversation.


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    GreeBo
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    You can hit/touch growing things in a water hazard but not loose impediments.
    However you cant move/bend them to improve your lie.

    Good detail here:
    http://www.barryrhodes.com/2016/03/touching-growing-grass-in-hazard.html


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    prawnsambo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,375 ✭✭✭✭prawnsambo


    GreeBo wrote: »
    You can hit/touch growing things in a water hazard but not loose impediments.
    However you cant move/bend them to improve your lie.

    Good detail here:
    http://www.barryrhodes.com/2016/03/touching-growing-grass-in-hazard.html
    Wasn't Petterson famously penalised a few years ago for touching a dead leaf in a hazard while addressing the ball?


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    Par72
    Registered Users Posts: 640 ✭✭✭Par72


    In 2019 you'll be able to move loose impediments and even ground your club in a hazard.


    https://www.randa.org/News/2018/03/New-Rules-of-Golf-unveiled-by-The-RA-and-USGA
    "Relaxed rules for “penalty areas” (currently called “water hazards”): Red and yellow-marked penalty areas may cover areas of desert, jungle, lava rock, etc., in addition to areas of water; expanded use of red penalty areas where lateral relief is allowed; and there will be no penalty for moving loose impediments or touching the ground or water in a penalty area."


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