Immovable Obstruction relief question

[GarthM]

To all you rules officianados, how would you setup a local rule for the following situation?

For those who know it, Hautes Plaines #18, dogleg right, OB left (houses). Origininally there was a small lateral hazard running down the left side (maybe 3 feet wide) between the rough and the OB fences. The course has now put up a net roughly 5-7 yards from the OB fences to keep balls out of the houses. It's runs about 50 yards down the left side and is roughly 60' high.

On the left side of the net (houses side) there is a single 3' wide strip of grass between the netting and then the rest is now large rocks (4-6" diameter) running all the way to the OB fence.

The issue is that there is always the slight chance that a ball will roll under the net (or go through and fall to the other side, but stay in bounds).

The pro wants to allow relief from the net under 24-2 for stance/swing but also wants to give relief from the rocks on the left side for line of sight. Now the area that is all rocks used to be a hazard that occaisonally you were lucky to be able to play out of.

From what I read in 24-2, there is no relief allowed for line of sight for an immovable obstruction, and in equity, I don't know that relief from the rocks should be allowed in this case as it used to be hazard (it's now essentially drainage).

Could we put in an optional DZ back by the 150 yard marker (in the rough of course ) for all balls that roll under the net and are affected by the net for stance/swing/line of sight (but not the OB fence??) and allow relief for balls that remain on the right side where stance/swing are affected?

I have attached a diagram (not very good mind you...) to attempt to illustrate.

Cheers,

Garth