You’ve played a solid drive up the middle of the 10th fairway and have an enticing 150-yard approach into the green. You’re feeling confident.
You make a steady backswing but then get too eager in the transition, you come over the top and pull the shot. As such, the ball goes long and left, it kicks on further and comes to rest on the 12th green, 20 yards beyond your target putting surface.
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You decide to play the ball as it lies and clip it nicely off the 12th putting surface, executing your shot perfectly. You’re feeling rather proud of yourself as you walk back to the 10th green to face a five-foot par putt.
But as you’re reaching for your putter, a playing partner asks the question – “shouldn’t you have taken a drop from there?” … You had thought you could just play it as lied. Was that correct? What do the Rules say?
Well it’s bad news. It wasn’t correct. Rule 13.1f says that relief “must” be taken from a wrong green.
What you must do if your ball lies on a wrong green or if that wrong green is in the way of your stance or swing is – find the nearest point of complete relief, where your ball, stance or swing are not interfered with by the wrong green.
If you have not gained a significant advantage, say your drop would have been just off the edge of the wrong green on a closely mown surface, you would play out the hole…
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