Opening Golf to the World
Animal hole or ground under repair or temporary water - When free relief is allowed
You are allowed free relief from an abnormal course condition when you have interference from such a condition anywhere on the course, except when the ball is in a penalty area or when the abnormal course condition is out of bounds.
Interference exists when any one of these is true:
- Your ball touches or is in or on an abnormal course condition,
- An abnormal course condition physically interferes with your area of intended stance or area of intended swing, or
- Only when your ball is on the putting green, an abnormal course condition on or off the putting green intervenes on your line of play.
- When playing your ball as it lies would be clearly unreasonable because of something from which you are not allowed to take free relief (such as when you are unable to make a stroke because of where your ball lies in a bush), or
- When interference exists only because you choose a club, type of stance or swing or direction of play that is clearly unreasonable under the circumstances.
規則16.1a之圖解 何時允許對比賽場地之異常狀況免罰脫困
- 本圖解是假定該球員是右撇子打者。
- 當該球觸及比賽場地之異常狀況(ACC)，或位於該狀況之內或之上(球在B1點)時， 或該狀況妨礙預定站位(球在B2點)或預定揮桿範圍時，允許對受該ACC之妨礙(包括不可移動之人造物)，免罰脫困。
- 對B1點的完全脫困之最近點是在P1點，且非常接近該狀況(ACC)。
- 對B2點的完全脫困之最近點是在P2點，且因站位須要脫離該ACC，所以距該狀況(ACC)更遠。