Why did he have to go back to the fairway to drop after he was already greenside? His ball hit the green before it went into the water. Why didnt he get a drop from where it went in?

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No possible drop along the line of flight without being closer to the hole than the hazard. I think...

It was a yellow staked hazard so he didn't have the two club length option. He could have played his next shot from where he flopped it into the water or walked around the pond keeping on the line of his point of entry into the hazard and the flag.

Yep, it was a regular water hazard (yellow) instead of a lateral hazard (red). With a regular water hazard, you can either rehit from your original position or you can take a drop keeping the point of entry into the hazard between you and the hole, which forces you to end up dropping back on the other side of the hazard in his situation. A lateral hazard (red) would have given him the option of dropping within two club-lengths of the point where his ball last crossed into the water hazard (but not closer to the hole) or a point on the opposite edge of the water hazard equidistant from the hole.

[This message has been edited by Bob the Enzyte Guy (edited 8/11/2009 12:27p).]

Bob - I'm going to bookmark this for the next time anyone posts that you don't get good information on TexAgs!

I'm guessing that the gyrations Paddy had to go through are the reasons you never see yellow hazards on non-tourney courses. Heck most places even have course rules to treat wooded areas as laterals to keep speed of play up.

Yeah, you don't come across many yellows. There is one at Sherrill Park in Richardson that is a par 3 over water - and the water also wraps around the left side of the green so you see a lot of pulls/hooks that bounce by the green and still end up wet due to a severe slope down to the water. Anyway, my golf buddies and I like to bust balls when someone thinks they can just go over to the other side and do the 2 club drop near where the ball rolled down into the hazard. What sucks even more is that there isn't room to move up and even take a normal drop - so you're stuck reteeing.

Since I play a natural draw and therefore have missed that green left many times, I've ended up cursing that mothereffin rule and hole many times.

[This message has been edited by Bob the Enzyte Guy (edited 8/11/2009 2:29p).]

Hole 6? That hole ia a ***** and the grean has 4 levels.

Yep, #6. It's a good hole in a "can kick you right square in the balls" kind of way - sort of like #17.

thanks guys! i know i've read the 2 rules (yellow, red) but i cant remember seeing yellow staked hazard any time recently when playing, much less hitting into one, so it just didnt occur to me about the extreme differences in relief.