Golf Rules – Snow, Ice, Frost & Dew, is it all the same?

Snow, Ice, Frost & Dew It’s all the same….isn’t it?

Relief is not dew!

When the snow is 8 inches deep across the golf course the only big question is whether or not the bar will still be open? But when play is still possible what is the difference between these watery obstacles?

Snow & ice can be either “loose impediments” (rule 23) or “casual water” (rule 25) and therefore relief is available. Frost & dew are found far more often by golfers and are neither “loose impediments” or “casual water” and therefore attract no such relief. I wonder how many early bird golfers have scraped away some due from the line of a putt as casually as they rub the sleep from their eyes?

Don’t do it people! If it is frost or dew you must just putt over it.

Deanwood Park Golf Club will be publishing more rules and golf information blogs. Watch out for the return of Ivor Shank & Sandy MacRevice who will stagger through some golf rules blunders.
www.deanwoodpark.co.uk

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