What do the rules say for removing your ball after a divine painted area?
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If a besieged area is chewed with divotine, is a player allowed to fall after the designated area? It seems to me like a fair shelter for me. —Phil Riley, San Diego
Phil, if the falling area were stretched and inviting, everyone would want to play from it!
No, you cannot withdraw from it-DZ is DZ (see model of local E-1 regulation), and the ball must be thrown into it and played by it when the Committee has introduced one in force. (This is assuming you decide to use the drop area option; doing so is typically optional.)
For what is worth it, if a falling area becomes bad, the committee can paint a new one between rounds.
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Playing with my friend at a hook event, he came to the 17th four shots in front of the field, but with only one ball remaining. Not knowing whether the rules allowed one ball from borrowing from another player and confronting the loss of his last ball. He would still have a two -stroke lead, with a much more secure stroke in green. Legal? Creative thinking in any case, no? —Dave Trent, Wilmington, NC
Creator, yes; Legal, no. Think about the fall area as an exclusive nightclub club called, well, the “fall zone”, where you can’t just talk on your way – you have to be on the list of friends. (Yes, Guy Guy knows what a nightclub is, even if you prefer libraries.)
As a rule 17.1b, access to the fall area requires a ball to come to rest in the linked penalty area. “1-Top Rule”, the local model of the G-4 rule, is rarely in force other than for elite professional and amateur races. Assuming it wasn’t, your friend could really have borrowed a ball from another player if it were over.
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