Ball lies on a moveable obstruction

[oldmaninblack]

On Friday I found my ball just in the edge of the trees at Greensmere (Black #4) in half of a broken beer bottle.

Wasn't sure how to proceed, so I went with an unplayable because I didn't like the idea of a face full of flying glass. I dropped within 2 club lengths as allowed by the unplayable.

I could have saved a stoke using 24-1 b. If the ball lies in or
on the obstruction, the ball may be lifted

and the

obstruction removed. The ball must through the
green or in a hazard be dropped, or on the putting green

be placed, as near as possible to the spot directly under
the place where the ball lay in or on the

obstruction, but not
nearer the hole.

The ball may be cleaned when lifted under this Rule.

[LobWedge]

Now you know for the next time.

[oldmaninblack]

And I'm practising my Voodoo so that next time the guy who threw the beer bottle in the woods will have his brain eaten by a zombie

[AAA]

Note. This doesn't apply to a loose impediment unless it is on the putting green.

[oldmaninblack]

An

“obstruction” is anything artificial, including the artificial
surfaces and sides of roads and paths and manufactured
ice.

“Loose impediments”

are natural objects including:
• stones, leaves, twigs, branches and the like,
• dung, and
• worms, insects and the like, and the casts and heaps made by
them

Beer bottles are not natural and are therefore obstructions.
People who throw beer bottles in the woods on golf courses are not natural, which makes them lower than pond scum.

[oldmaninblack]

1-4/5 Q:In a hazard, a player’s ball lies against a movable obstruction. A loose impediment lies on top of the obstruction in such a position that the player cannot remove the obstruction without also moving the loose impediment. The player is entitled to move the movable obstruction under Rule 24-1 but is not entitled to move the loose impediment under Rule 23. What is the procedure?
A:he player may remove the obstruction as authorized by Rule 24-1. As the loose impediment will be moved in the process, in equity (Rule 1-4), the player incurs no penalty and must place the loose impediment as near as possible to the spot where it originally lay. If the player fails to place the loose impediment as required, in equity (Rule 1-4) and in view of the purpose of Rule 13-4, he would lose the hole in match play or incur a penalty of two strokes in stroke play.

So I would have to put back any leaves, sticks and dirt that were also in the half beer bottle ...