Golf Rules Review

You have 5 minutes to look for a lost ball.

Artificial objects defining or showing out of bounds, such as walls, fences, stakes and railings are obstructions.

In the general area, a ball lifted to determine if it is cut or cracked may be cleaned.

A line defining the edge of a penalty area is in the penalty area.

If it is known or virtually certain that an outside influence caused a ball to move, the ball must be replaced in its original spot, which if not known must be estimated.

If a ball is lost or goes out of bounds, what happens?

It's okay to purposefully touch the sand in the bunker.

A ball is dropped in the right way, in the wrong place, but not yet played. The player may lift the ball without penalty and correct the mistake

Stakes used to show the location of the boundary edge of out of bounds are obstructions.