File this one under "Taking My Own Medicine".

No excuses, I just missed it.

Someone brought up Rule 25-2 Embedded Ball in another thread, and I immediately realized that I had violated this rule at the NCGT event this past Saturday.

I took relief from an embedded lie, but it was not in a "closely mown area". It was in fact in the rough. I should have either played it as it lay, or declared it unplayable and taken relief (and a penalty stroke) under Rule 28. I ended up carding a bogey 5 instead of a double-bogey 6, and subsequently I've DQ'd myself for violating Rule 6-6d.

I guess I won't do that again.