Unfortunately the lost ball rule occurs too often for many golfers. There are negative side-effects to a lost ball. For one, the penalty for a lost ball is very stiff. Also, a lost ball can affect the speed of play if everyone spends too much time looking for their golf ball.
This rule has two components, movable obstructions and immovable obstructions. The following pages will explain each component and the relief the golfer receives in each situation.
A club is designed for striking the golf ball. Clubs designs come in three basic forms determined by shaped and intent. These designs are woods, irons and putters.
The golf club has two main compents the shaft and the club head and these components must be fixed to create one unit. The overall design must resemble tradition form.
You are playing the 16th hole, in a weekend nassau, and are down by two strokes. In an effort to even the match you begin to play more aggressively. Off the tee you attempt to cut the corner of the dogleg and the ball comes to rest in the middle of a bush. After assessing that it is impossible to make any kind of swing you deem the ball is in an unplayable lie.
Definition:
The teeing ground is the starting place for the hole to be played. It is a rectangular area two club-lengths in depth, and the sides are defined by the outside liits of the two tee-markers. A ball is outside the teeing area when all of it lies outside the teeing area.
Loose impediments are natural objects. Examples: stones, leaves, twigs, branches etc… , dung, worms and insects and casts, sand and loose soil on the putting green only, and snow and natural ice can be either casual water or loose impediments, at the golfers discreteion.
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