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Water Hazards
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Water
hazards are (at least they should be) clearly marked on golf courses.
Yellow stakes or lines indicate a water hazard; red stakes or lines
indicate a lateral water hazard (a lateral water hazard is a water
hazard that runs alongside, rather than across, the line of play).
You can try to play a ball that finished in the water, however that's
generally a bad idea. Instead, for "regular" water hazards,
rather take a 1-stroke penalty and drop a ball at any point behind
the spot where your original ball crossed into the water hazard, but
on the same line of play (in other words: find the spot where your
ball crossed into the water hazard, look at the flag and imagine a
straight line drawn back from the flagstick to that spot; then imagine
that line extending back behind you, which is also the line on which
you must drop your ball).
For lateral water hazards, drop within two club lengths from the spot
where the ball crossed the margin of the hazard (no nearer the hole),
or on the opposite side of the hazard at an equidistant spot.
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