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• crgade 490 Posts

  Sat, Mar 10 2012 1:26 PM

  a lovely hole especially now that I have to play from legend tees...lol

  ok here we go

  nice drive over 300 yds just in rough 166 yrds from hole 25 wind from behind

  hit 2nd shot over green on to road ............thinking uh-oh OB

  but nooooooooo get an immovable object  then a free drop on the screen thinking kewl will still have chance for par....

  but noooooooo next shot is from where 2nd shot was played and I am now hitting 3

  so what I dont understand is how a free drop ends up at previous shot location AND get a one stroke penalty?????????????

• TheLighterDark 1,404 Posts

  Sat, Mar 10 2012 3:54 PM

  Under USGA rules, an immovable object would allow you a free drop around where the ball landed (at the closest point of relief), but no closer or farther away from the pin. 

  Since that isn't possible in WGT, it appears they are counting your shot as Out of Bounds without the one stroke penalty. I'd consider yourself lucky, take your bogey, and move on.

• gatordee 281 Posts

  Sat, Mar 10 2012 8:59 PM

  were you missing a ball?