This is my first time posting to this forum, so please excuse stupidity, or repeating an oft asked question. Here goes:

Rule 24-2(b) has an "Exception" that says you may not take relief if "it is clearly unreasonable for him to make a stroke because of interference by anything other than the immovable obstruction ..."

I take this to mean that you may not take relief if (for example) you would put yourself into what a reasonable person would consider an unplayable lie. I assume you must leave the ball where it lies (say on a cart path) and either play it there, or declare it unplayable, take a one stroke penalty, and use rule 28 to determine how to play his next stroke.

Am I right? This is a major controversy within my golf group.

Thanks,

Mike