After reading last Wednesday’s Rules Nugget about dropping a
ball on the putting green, several readers suggested I inform you of all the
situations where you would drop on the putting green.
There are four such situations, all of which include a one-stroke penalty, and all of which
require that the player drop the
ball on the putting green:
• Rule 28c, the two-club-length option for an unplayable
ball. For example, if your ball lies unplayable under a tree that grows
alongside a putting green, there may be a spot on the green within two
club-lengths of your ball that is no closer to the hole. And if your ball lies
unplayable in such a tree, your drop no closer to the hole within two
club-lengths of the spot on the ground immediately below your ball might be on
the putting green.
• Rule 26-1c, the two-club-length option for a ball in a
lateral water hazard. Sometimes these hazards lie so close to the green that
the two-club-length relief will lead you to a spot on the green that is no
closer to the hole.
• Rule 24-2b (ii) (b), which allows you to drop outside a
bunker in taking relief from an immovable obstruction that interferes with your
shot in the bunker. This drop would be behind the bunker on the flagline, so we
are talking about a bunker in the middle of a green.
• Rule 25-1b (ii), which allows you to drop outside a bunker
in taking relief from an abnormal ground condition that interferes with your
shot in the bunker. This drop would be behind the bunker on the flagline, so we
are again talking about a bunker in the middle of a green.
Linda
Copyright © 2016 Linda Miller. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2016 Linda Miller. All rights reserved.
