With a one-stroke penalty, you can take stroke-and-distance relief, back-on-the-line relief, or lateral relief. Rules Guy’s father would make a joke about using your tree-iron, but Rules Guy ...

Dear Rules Guy: Here’s a scenario I’ll bet you’ve never run across. My ball came to rest in a rooted area behind a tree with low-hanging limbs. Although I had to take a crouched stance, it ...

Keep in mind that the drop zone might not get you clear of a tree or group of trees. It's a tough break, but that's when you might go with option one or the final option under 19.2 —back-on-the ...

One such situation that's among the more rare in the sport is when a player's ball ends up stuck in a tree. We say rare, although it's now happened two times in 2023, once to Patrick Reed at the ...