Do you get FREE RELIEF if your ball rests on a fairway mushroom?
If your ball rolls on to a mushroom in the fairway, are you allowed to take it off?
The main aim of golf is simple. Hit your ball straight and long and find the hole in as few shots as possible.
The fairway is hallowed turf on the golf course. If you hit a drive, look up and see your ball sailing down the middle of the fairway, there is hardly any better feeling.
You have found the short grass and you have a perfect shot into the green. But sometimes when your luck is out, the fairway is not always the safest place.
Sometimes your ball can roll into a divet mark in the middle of the fairway. Sometimes you can walk to your ball and it has a lump of mud on the side of it.
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This unfortunate golfer, in the video above, probably couldn't believe his luck when he found his ball sitting on top of a large mushroom that was growing out of the ground.
When golfrules_questions posted this video on Instagram, it posed an interesting question with regards to the rules of golf: Are you entitled to free relief from the mushroom?
Well actually, the answer is no. It is a case of tough luck. It is classed as 'fixed and growing' and part of the ground, so you must play the shot.
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The player has the alternative option of deeming it unplayable and taking a penalty stroke, but he takes the right option and takes on the shot towards the green.
The player seems to strike the ball fairly well and he holds a confident pose. If this ever happens to you, just pretend it is teed up to your advantage.
