Yours doesn't sound quite like that, so I take back what I said. We have some courses here in Orange County that have forced carry tee shots over hazards, and they have drop zones on the other side of the hazard. It is certainly a shorter hole, but not by a lot The drop zone isn't in front of the water, it's just to the side - so instead of hitting over the water, the hole becomes dead straight with water right. but you have to carry it I'd say 250+ to get over the water as you're hitting over the lake where it widens. Or you can hit it 300+ yards and probably be within 40 yards of the green. You can go dead straight, over the water and try to place your ball in the fairway between 2 well placed bunkers. You can aim left off the tee, and only have to hit over the very corner of the water, but you leave yourself more than 200 yards into the green with water right, not favorable. From the white tees there is a huge lake directly in front that runs all along the right side of the fairway up to the side of the green. It's a Par 4 dogleg right from the white tees. I don't know if it's necessarily beyond it. The fact that the committee marked a drop zone in the same place as some OTHER teeing ground (it is not YOUR teeing ground since that is not where you started the hole) does not allow you to tee your ball.Īdditionally, I've learned from this forum that drop zones beyond the hazard, while not at all uncommon for pace of play reasons and high handicappers sanity, are technically against the rules of golf. The only place you can tee or re-tee your ball is on your teeing ground, which is defined as the place you put your ball in play at the beginning of the hole. I cannot imagine on what basis you would be allowed to tee your ball in a drop zone. It would be a punishing drop zone if you were not able to re-tee and hit to hit iron, or wood off the deck. The drop zone was marked with tee markers and not just a painted circle if you will and its still a par 4 at the tee box. Question is if you choose drop zone over re-tee can you tee the ball up? Myself and one playing partner both hit into the water yesterday and weren't sure.
Option is of course to re-tee, but the course has a drop zone marked with tee markers on a tee box (shared with the gold and red tees, just further forward of them) on the other side of the lake which makes your next shot instead of forced carry dead straight water all down the right. On a par 4 forced carry water hazard off the tee you hit into the water. Six players hitting from the drop zone scored bogeys, 15 finished with double-bogeys and 10 suffered a triple-bogey or worse.So a quick question. Of the 36 shots hit from the drop zone, five landed in the water. Of the three players who re-teed and hit the green, two secured bogeys while one double-bogeyed. Only four players hit second tee shots, one of which found the water again (he then moved to the drop zone for his third try). TPC SawgrassĪt the 2011 PLAYERS Championship, 40 balls were hit into the water at the 17th hole.
For example, if a player hits a tee shot into a water hazard, her next stroke will count as her third, whether she uses a drop zone or hits a second tee shot. In either case, the relief will cost the player a 1-stroke penalty. Players typically may either use the drop zone or play another shot from the same point as the shot that landed in the hazard. Not MandatoryĪppendix I, Part B, Section 8 of the Rules of Golf states that designated drop zones should offer “an additional relief option” to players who’ve hit into a hazard - rather than being mandatory. The 137-yard hole includes a drop zone to the left of the tee area that’s about 60 yards from the green. For example, the famous 17th hole of the TPC Sawgrass course - home of the PGA Tour’s PLAYERS Championship - features an island green completely surrounded by water except for a narrow land bridge on the far side of the hole. The Rules of Golf do not specify the manner in which a drop zone must be configured, as the area must be set up on a case-by-case basis. In the case of water hazards, the appropriate rule is 26-1. The Rules of Golf define "dropping zones" as “special areas on which balls may or must be dropped when it is not feasible or practicable to proceed exactly in conformity” with the appropriate rule.
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