8 Club Lengths Relief - Almost

[BC MIST]

One of the players in the Tunis yesterday, hit his second shot into a lateral water hazard to the left of the 18th green. He correctly measured his two club lengths relief and placed a marker on the cart path than ran parallel to the LWH. Dropping the ball correctly on to the cart path, the ball rolled almost two club lengths and came to rest in the rough, but the player's feet were still on the cart path. He correctly found his nearest point of relief and measured and marked this point. He dropped the ball near the outermost point of the 1 club length and the ball rolled almost two club lengths to a point where it was "in play." The total relief was between 7 to 8 club lengths, on to a reasonably good lie from which he made an excellent stroke.

Rule 20-2c permits the ball to roll up two club lengths from the point where it first strikes the course and as we discussed earlier, a player takes relief from one condition at a time. Some times, the rules can be your friend.

[LobWedge]

One of the players in the Tunis yesterday, hit his second shot into a lateral water hazard to the left of the 18th green. He correctly measured his two club lengths relief and placed a marker on the cart path than ran parallel to the LWH. Dropping the ball correctly on to the cart path, the ball rolled almost two club lengths and came to rest in the rough, but the player's feet were still on the cart path. He correctly found his nearest point of relief and measured and marked this point. He dropped the ball near the outermost point of the 1 club length and the ball rolled almost two club lengths to a point where it was "in play." The total relief was between 7 to 8 club lengths, on to a reasonably good lie from which he made an excellent stroke.

Rule 20-2c permits the ball to roll up two club lengths from the point where it first strikes the course and as we discussed earlier, a player takes relief from one condition at a time. Some times, the rules can be your friend.

Good for him for taking the time to do it right.

[BC MIST]

Good for him for taking the time to do it right.

After each step he asked me if what he was doing was correct, but this was probably done just a courtesy, as he obviously knew how to take advantage of the procedures for his own benefit, without going over the line.

[sillywilly]

i play with guys who take 8 club length relief all the time... what is the big deal? LOL

[hackzaw]

Just to confirm, because I love learning this rules stuff, the part about taking relief from the cart path. So, he found the nearest point of relief and marked that point. Then took 1 club length and marked that position. When he dropped his ball, how does the ruling work? It must land between the two marks, but can roll outside these marks no closer to the hole and so long as it comes to rest within two club lengths of either mark, the ball is in play?

I had thought the ball had to come to rest within the original 1 club length marks.

[justsomeguy]

It must land between the two marks, but can roll outside these marks no closer to the hole and so long as it comes to rest within two club lengths of either mark, the ball is in play?

Not quite:

A dropped ball must be re-dropped, without penalty, if it:

(vi) rolls and comes to rest more than two club-lengths from where it first struck a part of the course