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Players often think they can take a lateral drop near where the ball is sitting, but that’s not necessarily true. Here’s the scoop on where you take lateral relief from a red penalty area. Today we’re strictly clarifying where you can measure from for your two club lengths when choosing the lateral relief option, but […]
We often get asked to explain the difference between red and yellow penalty areas. Here’s what one player asked about taking a drop near the putting green after he hit his ball into a yellow-staked penalty area. When the rules of golf substantially changed in 2019, the term “water hazard” disappeared and was replaced with […]
What are Golf Local Rules? One of the nice things about the changes to the rules of golf in 2019 is that they have given more leeway to the committee at your club to make decisions, such as deciding which Local Rules they would like to adopt. The USGA defines local rules as: “a modification […]