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I am glad he still won, because the guy he was playing is obviously a total douche,
If it is printed on the score card, then IMO, the STATED local rule trumps the lack of the stakes being there. This would be no different from any courses that have whatever local rules deemed necessary printed on the card.
Worse off, he was playing against a guy and his Dad was on the cart with him. Not ideal, to say the least.
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My only issues with that is how do you know which side of the stakes the ball lies on? Unless there is a defined marker as to where the lateral hazard begins, how do you determine if the ball is in or out of the lateral hazard?
My only issues with that is how do you know which side of the stakes the ball lies on? Unless there is a defined marker as to where the lateral hazard begins, how do you determine if the ball is in or out of the lateral hazard?
As for where the line of the hazard is deemed. In match play it would have to be agreed upon by both players or a rules official. This is how it should be ruled and played.
I really think (really) that if there is no demarcation of a lateral hazard, then there is no lateral hazard - local rule be damned. If the groundskeeper screwed up, then the ball should have been played as it lay, or according to the rules for a lost ball, or an unplayable lie - depending on the circumstance, and the match should have continued under protest.
If the stakes are not present, play it as it lies no? If the ball is lost, play it as a lost ball.
local rules always prevail, no exceptions. If the scorecard says the right side bush of 15 is a hazard then its a hazard, stakes or not.