You may not be inclined to take a winter vacation to a warm weather climate just for a golf outing, or simply unable to get enough time off work. That means, if you’re an avid golfer living in a cold weather region, you’ll need to play your local golf courses during the winter months whenever the weather is pleasant enough to get in a few holes.
This means you will have to deal with course conditions caused by winter weather, including applying winter rules to various situations, if doing so is permitted by your local golf course. Snow and ice still on the course is one issue you may run into playing golf in the winter. Here is how you should apply winter golf rules to situations that arise where snow piles, or ice are a present.
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Simply put, you deal with ice and snow just as if they were water patches on the golf course that are not part of a designated water hazard.
Piles of snow along the outside boundaries of the fairways fall into this category, unless they are outside the official out of bounds marker for the hole. If the snow, or ice lies outside a boundary, then no winter rule is applied and your ball is considered out of bounds. Apply standard penalty and a drop under these situations.
But, if you ball lands on a patch of ice, or rolls up against a snow pile that is in the legal field of play, you may choose to move the ball one club length at players discretion. To properly apply the winter rule for snow or ice, you move one club length away from the hazard and drop the ball over your shoulder onto the course.
Again, winter rules only apply officially if they have been authorized and posted by management at your local course. Using them otherwise renders your scorecard unofficial. When applying the snow and ice winter rule in your round of golf, treat the snow and ice just as you would a casual water hazard. So, bundle up and head to the course when the weather
This means you will have to deal with course conditions caused by winter weather, including applying winter rules to various situations, if doing so is permitted by your local golf course. Snow and ice still on the course is one issue you may run into playing golf in the winter. Here is how you should apply winter golf rules to situations that arise where snow piles, or ice are a present.
Winter …show more content…
Simply put, you deal with ice and snow just as if they were water patches on the golf course that are not part of a designated water hazard.
Piles of snow along the outside boundaries of the fairways fall into this category, unless they are outside the official out of bounds marker for the hole. If the snow, or ice lies outside a boundary, then no winter rule is applied and your ball is considered out of bounds. Apply standard penalty and a drop under these situations.
But, if you ball lands on a patch of ice, or rolls up against a snow pile that is in the legal field of play, you may choose to move the ball one club length at players discretion. To properly apply the winter rule for snow or ice, you move one club length away from the hazard and drop the ball over your shoulder onto the course.
Again, winter rules only apply officially if they have been authorized and posted by management at your local course. Using them otherwise renders your scorecard unofficial. When applying the snow and ice winter rule in your round of golf, treat the snow and ice just as you would a casual water hazard. So, bundle up and head to the course when the weather