Need to identify your ball in a bunker? Here’s what the USGA rules say about this situation: The player must re-create the original lie in the sand, but may leave a small part of the ball visible if the ball had been covered by sand. Follow for more golf rules quiz questions.
7.1 How to Fairly Search for Ball
a. Player May Take Reasonable Actions to Find and Identify Ball
A player is responsible for finding his or her ball in play after each stroke.
The player may fairly search for the ball by taking reasonable actions to find and identify it, such as:
Moving sand and water, and
Moving or bending grass, bushes, tree branches and other growing or attached natural objects, and also breaking such objects, but only if such breaking is a result of other reasonable actions taken to find or identify the ball.
If taking such reasonable actions as part of a fair search improves the conditions affecting the stroke:
There is no penalty under Rule 8.1a if the improvement results from a fair search.
But if the improvement results from actions that exceeded what was reasonable for a fair search, the player gets the general penalty for breach of Rule 8.1a.
In trying to find and identify the ball, the player may remove loose impediments as allowed in Rule 15.1 and may remove movable obstructions as allowed in Rule 15.2.
b. What to Do If Sand Affecting Lie of Player’s Ball Is Moved While Trying to Find or Identify It
The player must re-create the original lie in the sand, but may leave a small part of the ball visible if the ball had been covered by sand.
If the player plays the ball without having re-created the original lie, the player gets the general penalty.
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