What is a water hazard in golf?
“This Gene Mortensen with the Oklahoma Golf Association I like to talk to you about rule twenty-six which is the rule that applies to water hazards. We have a water hazard as defined and then there is the second item called the let it roll water hazard. I like to just talk about what is a water hazard in this particular segment. A water hazard is a area which the committee has defined by the yellows stakes you could see them and yellow lines. It is the committees responsibilities to see that all the areas are popularly marked. In this particular case we have the teeing ground where I’m standing and then it goes across a island and then it get to the surface of the green. The critical point that we mush establish If we have a ball in the water hazard has it has last crossed the boundary of the water hazard. In this particular case you would see I have a boundary here. I have a boundary in front of the island. I have a boundary on the opposite side of the island and there is the edge of
