The answer is yes under Rule 19.2/4. As long as you haven't put a ball in play, you're still allowed to take free relief as outlined in Rule 16.1. And it wouldn't have mattered if the ball was in the ...

This is an important question and one I find myself going back and forth on. On one hand, I can see that for many, golf’s rulebook can feel somewhat impenetrable. Given its inherent difficulty, most ...

There is a phrase in the Rules of Golf that is important to remember and apply when you can't see where your ball came to rest—it's "known or virtually certain." The phrase is the benchmark that must ...