Hi,

Can someone tell me the correct ruling if your ball goes down a rabbit hole. I hit my 2nd straight up the fairway yesterday and it dissapeared down a rabbit hole. I could see my ball 4 inches below the surface, obviously unplayable. What is the correct ruling and would it be any different if it had dissapeared completly?

Thanks. Steve

Free relief from the rabbit hole and if it was lost in the hole you would have had to see it go down there but I doubt anyone would believe you.

I saw a mate hit a ball up a drainage pipe once that was in a ditch, I gace him a free drop.

I am trying to start a blog of golfers view pictures of regular golf courses, mail me some picures like these if you have them.

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Without looking it up.

The ball is in a 'hole made by a burrowing animal', so free relief. The point of the drop should be directly above where the ball lie. If you can't locate the ball but it is certain it's in there then the drop point is by the entrance to the hole.

BTW, what course has large Rabbitt holes on their fairways??

TheLyth

Lyth, it could be Warren golf Club or  Burnham and Burrow GC, http://www.golfshake.com/scripts/ckeditor/plugins/smiley/images/devil_smile.gif"
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Comments like that makes the hare on the back my neck bristle.

TheLyth

I was playing Thorney Park in Bucks, fairways were generally good but there is at least one rabbit hole on the 14th fairway, about 20 yards short of the green, and I found it!