After torrential downpours at our course, many of the bunkers were filled with water. I hit my ball into one and couldn't even find it. What should I have done?
—Lisa Condello, Fairport, NY
If you're positive the ball is lost in casual water that fills a bunker, you have three options (Decision 25-1b/8, Player's Options When Bunker Completely Covered by Casual Water). Without penalty, you can drop a ball on the nearest, driest area in the bunker, no closer to the hole. Or, if there isn't a dry area in the bunker, take a penalty stroke and drop a ball behind the bunker, keeping the point where the first ball last crossed the outermost limit of the casual water between the hole and the spot on which you drop your new ball. Or you can add a penalty stroke and play another ball near the spot where your original ball was played.
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