re: Explanation of Spieth's drop yesterday?

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That may save you a shot one day!


Here's the crazy thing... you can take an unplayable anywhere but OB or in a Water Hazard.

Let's say you're playing on crazy fast greens and you have a 3 footer that you miss and it rolls completely off the green and into some thick rough. You could technically take an unplayable, take a penalty stroke and replay the three footer.

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I am not sure I like this rule.....seems like a loophole that you can take,advantage of. I don't know what constitutes unplayable. There was one golfer whose ball got stuck in a tree. I would call that unplayable. But Speith's was visible in the thick grass since he could identify that it was his ball. I think he should have been made to play the ball where it was. There were no obstructions to his swing, etc.