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shall be done which may in any way improve its lie. Before making
a stroke, the player shall not touch the ground or the water with a
club or otherwise, nor touch or move a loose impediment lying in
or touching the hazard, nor test the condition of any similar hazard ;
subject to the following considerations
(a)
S
TANCE
The player may place his feet firmly in taking his stance.
(b)
T
OUCHING
F
IXED OR
G
ROWING
O
B
J
ECT
In addressing the ball or in the stroke or in the backward move-
ment for the stroke, the club may touch any wooden or stone
wall, paling or other similar fixed object or any grass, bush, tree,
or other growing substance (but the club may not be soled in the
hazard).
(C)
O
BSTRUCTIONS
The player is entitled to relief from obstructions under the
provisions of Rule 31.
(d) L
OOSE
I
MPEDIMENT OUTSIDE
H
AZARD
Any loose impediment not in or touching the hazard may be
removed.
(e)
F
INDING
B
ALL
The player is entitled to find his ball in accordance with Rule
I'7, z.
If the ball be covered by sand, fallen leaves or the like, he may
remove as much thereof as will enable him to see the top of the ball ;
if the ball be moved in such removal, no penalty shall be incurred,
and the ball shall be replaced. The ball may not be lifted for
identification.
(f) P
LACING
C
LUBS IN
H
AZARD
The player may, without penalty, place his clubs in the hazard
prior to making a stroke, provided nothing is done which may
improve the lie of the ball or constitute testing the soil.
(g) S
MOOTHING
I
RREGULARITIES
After playing a stroke, there is no penalty should the player
smooth irregularities in the hazard made by footprints or the soil
displaced by a stroke, provided nothing is done that improves the
lie of the ball or assists the player in his subsequent play of the hole.
(h) C
ASUAL
W
ATER,
G
ROUND UNDER
R
EPAIR
The player is entitled to relief from casual water, ground under
repair, and otherwise as provided for in Rule 32.
(Z)
I
NTERFERENCE BY A
B
ALL
The player is entitled to relief from interference by another ball
under the provisions of Rule 24.
z. Ball in Water Hazard
If a ball lie or be lost in a water hazard (whether the ball lie in
water or not), the player may drop a ball,
under penalty of one stroke.
either :
(a)
Behind the water hazard, keeping the spot at which the ball
last crossed the margin of the water hazard between himself and
the hole,
or
(b) As
near as possible to the spot from which the original ball
was played ; if the stroke was played from the teeing ground, the
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