请问裁判,在什么情况下球场设立蓝桩,打入蓝桩范围内的球如何处理?
蓝桩通常用来标明“Environmentally-sensitive Area”,即环境保护区域,比如危险湿地、动物栖息地等。不允许球员入内找球,强行进入还有需要承担法律责任的可能。处理起来比较复杂,球场或组委会根据情况一般按整修地(不罚杆抛球)或水障碍(罚杆抛球)处理。通常球场记分卡上也会有相应的本地规则。
相关decision如下:
33-8/43 Stroke Played from Environmentally-Sensitive Area
Q. A player played a stroke at his ball in an environmentally-sensitive area from which play is prohibited or took his stance in such an area in playing a stroke. What is the ruling?
A. The answer depends on how the Committee has defined the environmentally-sensitive area.
Ground Under Repair, Water Hazard or Lateral Water Hazard: If the ball was in the environmentally-sensitive area, or if the player took his stance in the environmentally-sensitive area to play a stroke at his ball which was lying outside the environmentally-sensitive area, he loses the hole in match play or he incurs a penalty of two strokes in stroke play for a breach of the Local Rule. In stroke play, he must play out the hole with that ball unless a serious breach of the Local Rule has occurred – see Decision 33-8/44.
Out of Bounds: If the ball was in the environmentally-sensitive area, the player played a wrong ball – see Decision 15/6. Accordingly, in match play, the player loses the hole. In stroke play, he incurs a two stroke penalty and is required to proceed under Rule 27-1, incurring the additional one stroke penalty prescribed by that Rule.
If the player took his stance in the environmentally-sensitive area to play a ball which was in bounds, the ruling would be the same as that for Ground Under Repair, Water Hazard or Lateral Water Hazard.
In all cases, the player may have broken the law or be subject to other disciplinary action for having entered the environmentally-sensitive area.