Golfing question!?

Question

if you hit a ball in a lateral hazard and your ball is sitting on a sprinkler head, where do you get to take your free drop?

Answer 1

If the sprinkler head is in bounds the group can decide if it's a hazard or not. If not you can move the ball because it is a man-made obstruction. If it's already in a hazard you can play it as it lies with no penelaties, or drop it and take the penelaty.

Answer 2

Well...im not entirely sure, but i believe that you get to take it to the point of relief no closer to the hole...im not sure, but it seems that you would get relief from that

Answer 3

If your ball is in a water hazard, you would not get relief from the sprinkler head.

I'm not sure how you get a thumbs down with a correct answer but here you go: http://www.usga.org/questions/faqs/rules...

Answer 4

You can take a free drop in a hazard, but in your case, you would have to "replace" the ball at the nearest point of relief, no nearer to the hole and still in the hazard.  This also means you can't clean the ball.

But the real question is why would there be a sprinkler in a lateral hazard?

Answer 5

MBL is correct.

There is no relief from immovable obstructions in a water hazard (or lateral water hazard). Rule 24-2.

Although I do have to agree with the person who can't figure out why there's a sprinkler head in a water hazard.

I have MBL a thumbs up to try to cancel out the thumbs down somebody gave him. (And because I also hate when people give the correct answer a thumbs down just because they don't like it.)

Answer 6

one club length furthest from the hole.

Answer 7

If your ball comes to rest inside the boundary of a lateral water hazard (regardless of what it is sitting on), you can go in an play it as it lies, or you can take a drop under penalty of one stroke.  The drop must be within two club lengths of where the ball last crossed the margin of the hazard, no cloer to the hole, and you can drop on either side of the lateral hazard.  You would not get a free drop if you ball is in the hazard.

Answer 8

The sprinkler is a man-made obstruction, you can move you ball one club length away but no closer to the hole with no penalty.  If your ball hits and bounces off a man-made obstruction you can take a re-hit with no penalty.

Answer 9

as near as the spot inside the hazard. Within 2 clublengths. Key being "inside the hazard"

Answer 10

There is no relief from a hazard (You can't even remove loose impediments while you are in a hazard(bunkers too)). You would have to drop and take a stroke penalty. Potentially though, you could play the ball as it lies and hit it off of the sprinkler head.