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Footballguy
Not quite.This is interesting. So let's say I drive the fairway (hooray!). But my second shot I dead pull left, and it ends up in some water. Near the water is a bunch of trees between point of entry and the hole. My options are:
A) drop within two clubs of where it went in, in any direction
B) drop farther back along the path from where I hit it to the water, even if I want to go back like 40 yards to avoid the trees, knowing I have a club that can cover that 40 and now I have a clean shot at the green
is that right?
You can either take stroke and distance..... i.e. rehit from where your last spot was, but assessed a penalty stroke.
or
drop anywhere on the line behind the hole and the point of entry... also with a penalty stroke. So, if you hit it straight left into the water, but the grass around the water is long and you don't want to drop there, you can draw an imaginary line between the hole and your point of entry, then extend it past your point of entry and drop anywhere on that line, not on the line between your shot and the point of entry. So, in that case the only way to avoid those trees would be to re-hit from the previous spot.