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.
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.
Water hazard - yellow stakes, lateral hazard - red stakes and bunkers.
A red stake means a lateral water hazard.
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.
you can go play it. It is in a hazard tho and hazard rules apply
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.
Hazard is the area of sand or water between the tee and the hole.
This marks the boundary of a water hazard.
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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.
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.
you hit the ball towards the flag. But if it goes in a water hazard, you drop before the water.