thekid65
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- Jan 2, 2009
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Now that the season is finally starting to get going here in I-dee-ho, I hope to be posting here more often.
I had a new one come up yesterday, and wasnt clear on the rule. I stripped a nice drive down the middle of the fairway, when the ball landed, it became "plugged" in between good fairway, and someones patched divot. So technically, I think the ball was in a divot, but wedged in between the patch, and the "good" part of the fairway. Only about 1/4 of the ball was visible above the top of the ground. So, my question is:
Would I have been allowed to remove the divot patch of old grass (loose impediment?), and as long as the ball didnt move, play the shot? Or, would that be improving my lie. Or was the ball "plugged" and I should have been allowed relief?
I wasnt sure of the rule, and thought my ball would possibly move if I tried to remove the patch, and I played the shot as it lay, damned near broke my wrist, and managed a par...so all was good.
I had a new one come up yesterday, and wasnt clear on the rule. I stripped a nice drive down the middle of the fairway, when the ball landed, it became "plugged" in between good fairway, and someones patched divot. So technically, I think the ball was in a divot, but wedged in between the patch, and the "good" part of the fairway. Only about 1/4 of the ball was visible above the top of the ground. So, my question is:
Would I have been allowed to remove the divot patch of old grass (loose impediment?), and as long as the ball didnt move, play the shot? Or, would that be improving my lie. Or was the ball "plugged" and I should have been allowed relief?
I wasnt sure of the rule, and thought my ball would possibly move if I tried to remove the patch, and I played the shot as it lay, damned near broke my wrist, and managed a par...so all was good.