24-2b/3Brilliant. Can you also reproduce the words of 24-2b/3?
Player Determines Nearest Point of Relief But Physically Unable
to Play Intended Stroke
Q. In proceeding under Rule 24-2b(i) or Rule 25-1b(i), the Definition of
“Nearest Point of Relief” provides that to determine the nearest point of
relief accurately, the player should use the club, address position, direction
of play and swing (right or left-handed) that he would have used to make
his next stroke had the obstruction or condition not been there. What
is the procedure if, having determined the stroke he would have used,
he is unable physically to make such a stroke from, what would appear
to be, the nearest point of relief because either (a) the direction of play
is blocked by a tree, or (b) he is unable to take the backswing for the
intended stroke due to a bush?
A. The point identified is the nearest point of relief. The fact that at this
point the player cannot make the intended stroke due to something other
than the obstruction or condition from which relief is being taken does
not alter this result. The player must drop the ball within one club-length
of the nearest point of relief, not nearer the hole. Once the ball is in play,
the player must then decide what type of stroke he will make. This stroke
may be different from the one he would have made from the ball’s original
position had the obstruction or condition not been there.
