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If a ball is struck into a lateral water hazard the options are:
1. Replay the shot
2. drop two clubs from the point that the ball entered the hazard no closer to the hole.
3. Drop a ball two club lengths from the hazard on the opposite side of the hazard the same distance away.
4. Take the ball as far back keeping the line that the ball crossed the hazard and the pin.
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What do the colored stakes on golf course mean?
Yellow is a water hazard. Red is a lateral hazard. White is out of bounds. The rules indicate how each of these should be dealt with.
What is the name of a golf hazard?
Water hazard - yellow stakes, lateral hazard - red stakes and bunkers.
What does red signify on a golf course?
A red stake means a lateral water hazard.
Water hazards are marked by what color in golf?
Water hazards are marked with yellow stakes. Lateral water hazards are marked with red stakes. The difference between lateral water hazards and water hazards is that you can play from either side of the lateral water hazard as long as you are not nearer the hole. With a water hazard you have to play from the side on the line of where the ball entered.
What is the ruling when a golf ball is hit into a dried up lake?
you can go play it. It is in a hazard tho and hazard rules apply
What do yellow stakes in golf mean?
Blue stakes on a golf course indicate "ground under repair". They may be blue with a green top which would indicate that an appropriate government agency has declared the area an "environmentally-sensitive area" and the local golf committee has declared it ground under repair to prevent play from it.
What is the golf term hazard mean?
Hazard is the area of sand or water between the tee and the hole.
What the yellow stick in golf meant?
This marks the boundary of a water hazard.
Are regular and lateral water hazards the same thing in golf?
See related link.
What do the red blue yellow and white posts on a golf course mean?
The red, blue, yellow, and white posts on a golf course refer to the distance from the green. Usually red= 100 yards, white= 150 yards, blue= 200 yards, and yellow= 250 yards.
Red stakes are a stroke penalty but not a distance penalty in golf?
Correct! Red is marking a lateral hazard. Ball may be dropped within 2 club lengths of where it crossed the red stakes or if found, played from the hazard with no penalty.
In Golf.....Rule for ball in play?
you hit the ball towards the flag. But if it goes in a water hazard, you drop before the water.
