{"id":82125,"date":"2025-02-03T18:43:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T08:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sanctuarycovegolf.com.au\/cms\/?p=82125"},"modified":"2025-02-11T10:40:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T00:40:25","slug":"rule-of-the-week-determining-area-of-course-where-ball-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sanctuarycovegolf.com.au\/cms\/2025\/02\/rule-of-the-week-determining-area-of-course-where-ball-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Rule of the Week \u2013 Determining the Area of the Course Where a Ball Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"elementToProof\">Rule of the Week \u2013 Determining the Area of the Course Where a Ball Lies<\/h3>\n<div class=\"ruleOfGolfContent_content__copy__bZVyQ\">\n<div id=\"10_3\" class=\"ruleOfGolfSubRules_wrapper__QSpN1\">\n<div id=\"10_3c\">\n<div class=\"ruleOfGolfSections_section_text__7eq3s\">\n<div class=\"ruleOfGolfSections_section_text__7eq3s\">\n<div class=\"rulePageRichTextEditor_rich-text-parser__container__F5R2a\">\n<div class=\"ruleOfGolfSections_section_text__7eq3s\">\n<p class=\"rulePageRichTextEditor_rich-text-parser__container__F5R2a\"><span class=\"rich-text-span\">The&nbsp;<span tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Definition container\">area of the course<\/span>&nbsp;where a player\u2019s ball lies affects the Rules that apply in playing the ball or taking relief.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"rulePageRichTextEditor_rich-text-parser__container__F5R2a\"><span class=\"rich-text-span\">A ball is always treated as lying in only one&nbsp;<span tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Definition container\">area of the course<\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If part of the ball is in both the&nbsp;<span tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Definition container\">general area<\/span>&nbsp;and one of the four specific&nbsp;<span tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Definition container\">areas of the course<\/span>, it is treated as lying in that specific&nbsp;<span tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Definition container\">area of the course<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>If part of the ball is in two specific&nbsp;<span tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Definition container\">areas of the course<\/span>, it is treated as lying in the specific area that comes first in this order:&nbsp;<span tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Definition container\">penalty area<\/span>,&nbsp;<span tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Definition container\">bunker<\/span>,&nbsp;<span tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Definition container\">putting green<\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.randa.org\/en\/rog\/the-rules-of-golf\/rule-2#2_2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rule 2.2c<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rule of the Week \u2013 Determining the Area of the Course Where a Ball<\/a><a><\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":2255,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[253],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-member-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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