You’ve hit it over a pond, watched it land security, solely to see it trickle again into the water. The place do you drop?
Who doesn’t love a ‘signature gap’? Properly, perhaps not this one. It’s a mid-length par 3 with a pond in entrance of a inexperienced that slopes sharply from again to entrance.
In summer season, when the placing floor is slick, a shot that lands safely can zip off the entrance and right into a pond.
The penalty space is yellow and now we’re scratching our heads. The place can we take aid?
That’s the nub of this e mail: “Your drive goes over a yellow staked penalty space and rolls again into the water from the greenside. Is there any circumstance the place you’re allowed to take a drop on the inexperienced facet?”
Yellow stakes in golf: Can we drop inexperienced facet?
When yellow paint or stakes are in place on this case, a ball that lands on the inexperienced facet of the penalty space after which rolls again into it may’t be dropped on that facet.
There are some holes the place the problem is efficiently getting the ball over the water and ensuring it stays there. The menace is why the penalty space is yellow.
That’s since you’ve solely bought two aid choices: stroke-and-distance and back-on-the-line aid. To drop inexperienced facet right here, you’d have to take lateral aid and that’s solely an possibility when the penalty space is purple.
Now, you may see a scenario like within the image above and have a lightbulb second. ‘I’ll simply drop it – back-on-the-line – in that little space of dry land contained in the yellow stakes’.
Put the thought out of your minds. If you’re establishing a aid space to take penalty space aid, the placement will be in any space of the course – “besides the identical penalty space“.
You may assume all of that is slightly unfair. You’ve initially cleared the penalty space and been beset by dangerous luck. Or perhaps you simply didn’t hit a adequate shot else it wouldn’t have rolled again in.
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