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Q.
If you hit a ball into a tree, and you know it is in there, can you deem it unplayable and take a drop under Rule 19.2b or 19.2c?
A.
No, because you don’t know the exact position of the ball. You must be able to identify exactly where the ball is. In the case of Lydia’s ball, they could see a ball and it was verified by spectators that that is exactly where it went. It also helped that it was a 50m shot, and a sparse tree.
