NOW here is a twister for all to ponder while you sip that cappuccino from the golf shop. Playing a comp last week I hooked a ball into the greens compound on the 18th. How do I proceed?
a) take a free drop from the drop zone near the green
b) replay the shot with a penalty for being out of bounds
c) replay the shot without penalty or
d) play my next shot from the nearest point of relief?
Dave Ransom
Vice-captain
Response from Lance Fredericks, President Jamberoo Golf club:
The Compound is an Immovable Obstruction (Rule 24) and relief without penalty is available. Where you take relief depends on where the ball ends up in the compound. If you can see and identify the ball then relief is taken at the nearest point of relief, not nearer the hole, from the ball. This may be near the 10th Tee. If the ball cannot be found then relief is taken at the point where the ball crossed the boundary of the Compound.