Now that Cottonwood only has one course, I'm not sure why they keep the Ivanhoe course as part of the name, but I guess they still do.
Usually when your ball goes into a lateral hazard, at least you don't lose all of the distance from your previous shot. Unless you hit a tree, and it shoots across another fairway into the penalty area. Where it crossed the margin of the hazard was at least 75 yards further from the hole than where I had just played from.
So I can play my next shot from the same place, right?
Yes (thankfully).
Rule 17.1-d (1) indicates that you can take stroke and distance when you hit into a penalty area. So my second shot went off the tree into the penalty area, so I dropped #3 in the same spot, and then hit my fourth up the fairway. It was a bad hole.
I also had a gopher hole in my stance on one hole. My ball was not impacted by it, but my stance was. Per Rule #16.1-a (1) you get relief for your stance in an abnormal course condition.
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