Dear Linda,
Is it allowed to make practice swings in the same bunker
from which the player has hit his ball into another bunker? Rule 13-4, Exception
3, states that it is allowed to test the hazard, but 13-4b may lead to another
conclusion.
Regards and thanks in advance,
Lou from the Netherlands
Dear Lou,
After you hit your ball out
of a hazard, there are no restrictions on what you may do in that hazard. You
may rake the sand, remove loose impediments, and take practice swings [Rule
13-4, Exception 3]. The fact that your ball landed in a different hazard is
irrelevant.
Rule 13-4b states that you are not permitted to touch the
ground in the hazard before you make a stroke at your ball that lies in that
hazard, or before you drop or place a ball in that hazard that you have
previously lifted.
Linda
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