Water ruling

[toddkrau]

On Tuesday night leagues we came across a situation where the group disagreed on a ruling and I was hoping to clarify.

If a disc is thrown over water (OB) and gets caught on a tree limb that is still above the water the rules would state that the marker would be directly below where the disc came to rest correct? This would mean you would need to re-tee or re-shot from your last position because the disc is still OB? The reason I ask is one person in our group stated that since it hit a tree it is technically land and you would get to drop on the ground in bounds.

Can anyone tell me what the proper ruling is?

[jmart]

aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh............... the group ruling. the td in me shivers at those words. todd the correct ruling would be thus: the o.b. line extends "to outer space" meaning the line is a line extending vertically through anything else. if the disc lands over a creek pond or anything declared o.b. then yes it is o.b. but the player upon [glow=red,2,300]finding[/glow] the disc has two options 1: they can take a meter from where the disc crossed the "line", take a penalty stroke and throw from there. 2: the player upon finding his disc o.b. can also take a penalty stroke and throw from his previous lie i.e teepad or approach. the misconception here is that the pdga changed it's "lost disc" ruling which now says that if a player cannot find his disc after three minutes of the entire group looking then it is declared lost and the player takes a penalty stroke and throws from the previous lie. a player who has gone o.b. and has found his disc has the 2 options to take.

[toddkrau]

Thanks...that is what I thought. This happened in league on Tuesday night on hole 11 where one of the guys threw two disc into the water (off the tee) trying to break between the trees. After the third tee shot caught the tree 20 feet up it was still above the water one of our group stated it hit land so he should be able to drop a meter from the shoreline, as it turns out it would have been another OB shot and would have had to be thrown from the tee box again or right in front since the angle of the disc was over water for all but 8 feet of the throw. Just wanted to make sure I had this right.

[shank]

good call todd :-)