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Cruel
and Unusual Hazards
The following
extreme water hazards and improper bunk-era are deemed to constitute an unwarranted
and impermissible interference with due and rightful play, and a player may replay
a shot that is hit into any such water hazard, or throw his ball out of any such
bunker, without assessing a stroke or incurring any penalty:
1. Any water hazard
that, in order to be cleared, requires a ball to carry over it in the air for
a distance of 150 yards or more with no possibility of a lay-up shot or safe play
2. Any lateral
water hazard toward which a fairway has
been purposely
graded or sloped so that a ball will roll or bounce into it even if, as a result
of a benign spin or favourable curve applied to the ball at the time it was struck,
it should have easily avoided the hazard
3. Any bunker
so situated in a fairway that no part of it is visible from the teeing ground,
regardless of whether the bunker was accurately depicted in a schematic diagram
of the hole on a scorecard or sign
4. Any bunker
having a lip of overhanging earth, turf, or greensward a foot or more in thickness,
or a retaining wall of stone or wood a club length or more in height, or stairs
or a ladder for entry or exit, or an overall depth such that the surface of the
putting green is above the eye level of a player standing on the sand within it
5. Any bunker
that has been formally given or is generally referred to by an ominous or intimidating
name.
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