Generally, there is no free relief for a ball embedded in the rough as relief for an embedded ball is restricted to closely-mown areas (Rule 25-2). However, if the conditions merit it, a Committee can choose to extend relief by Local Rule to anywhere “through the green” which includes the rough and semi-rough.

Under the Rules of Golf, “through the green” is defined as any area on the golf course, excluding four areas: tee boxes and greens on the hole being played, hazards and bunkers. The USGA and R&A have used “through the green” to create separate areas of the golf course where rules are applied in specific ways.

“Rolling it in the fairway” means lift, clean and place, no closer to the hole, at your discretion.

The Biarritz Green in Golf A biarritz, or biarritz green, is a putting green that features a deep gully, or swale, bisecting its middle. Obviously, when approaching a biarritz green it behooves the golfer to get his ball on the same side of the swale as the flagstick to avoid having to putt across the gully.

Golf Expressions

• Golf Expressions.
• Bag rat. Caddie.
• Air mail. To hit a shot much farther than planned (most commonly over the green.)
• Beagle. Term used to describe a score of double par on a single hole.
• Cabbage. Deep, thick, inescapable rough.
• Can. The hole.
• Carpet. The green.
• Cart golf.

There is no distinction between the rough and fairway in the Rules. Both are considered through the green. In this case, the player proceeded correctly and was possibly able to better his lie by dropping in the fairway.

No Deliberate Testing of Greens Exception – Testing Greens When between Two Holes: Between two holes, a player may rub the surface or roll a ball on the putting green of the hole just completed and on any practice green (see Rule 5.5b).

The Eden hole is a spectacular par-3 design that hails from the 174 yard 11th (High-Hole-In) at the Old Course at St. It is often considered one of the two best par-3 designs in golf, along with the Redan hole.

13 hole “Bottle,” with no comparison point to that title’s typical features (it’s a hard right dogleg with no centerline bunker or fairway split). winning the hole means taking the informed route based on the day’s flag placement.

“Duffer” is a colloquial or slang term within golf for a mediocre or poor golfer.

Three consecutive birdies during one round of golf.

If your ball has mud on it while it sits in the fairway or rough can you clean the mud off or must you play it how it lies? You must play it where it lies. It’s called rub of the green. If there is a “lift, clean and place” policy in effect by the rules committee then you are allowed to clean it, but otherwise no.

Golf has some pretty strange terms that are even confusing for golfers. One of those terms is “through the green.” The term “through the green” is really only used in the Rules of Golf, and it describes a specific area of the golf course.

The area on a golf course known as “through the green” is now called the “general area.”. The Rules of Golf now call “general area” what was once “through the green” in an effort to be consistent with another change in terminology.

Surprisingly to some, the fairway and the rough are not defined in the rule book. The terms “fairway” and “rough” are only mentioned twice: In Rule 25-2 (Embedded Ball) where it mentions that “Closely mown area” means any area of the ‘course’ including paths through the rough, cut to fairway height or less, and

But sometimes the swale runs from front to back (creating a right side and left side of the green bisected by the swale). A biarritz is especially challenging when the hole is cut on one side of the swale and your ball is sitting on the other side, requiring a long putt that must travel down the gully then up its other side to reach the hole.