Your 50 yards out , You hit a nice high shot that will surely stick on the green!?

Question

Then it hits a sprinkler head and bounces 50 yards to the other side. Do you have to play it as it lies or can you get relief and place it back on the green?

Answer 1

play it where it lies. you only get relief if it is an unplayable shot.

Answer 2

You will have to play as it lies. Too bad your ball hits the sprinkler head; it's just one of those things in golf. If your ball had been just beside the sprinkler, making it impossible to have a free forward swing then you may ask for relief.

Answer 3

Play it where it lies.  It's called "rub of the green" or "gee, that sucked".

Answer 4

Play it as it lies

Answer 5

Unfortunately it's called a rub of the green.Just a technical way of saying that you've had some bad luck.You will just have to play the ball from where it lies.

Answer 6

You curse your head off, then play it as it lies, unfortunately.

Answer 7

play it as it lies, unless course rules state otherwise

Answer 8

What do you do when your ball hits the cart path?  Think about that and you will be able to answer your own question.  Sprinkler heads are part of the course.  You got screwed.  Make up and down for your par, move on to the next hole, and forget about it.

Answer 9

You must be joking.  Place it where on the green?  Where you think the ball would have gone if it just wasn't for that nasty sprinkler (Which wasn't on the green at all).  Get serious and think about your next shot from 50 yards out.