Hi,
On the course I play on there are a number of small streams that run across it, most of which are designated casual water.
I have two questions that both came up in a friendly round I was playing the other day.
1. My disc landed in a crook of the stream, going in a line straight back from the basket the nearest dry land was over 3 foot away. My understanding was you could only go back a foot(30 cms) from where the disc lay in the casual water. Do you keep going until you hit dry land in this instance or do you get your feet wet?
2. My friends disc landed in the same stream which was running quite fast. This was on a bend of the stream which turned towards the basket. The water had flooded a bit and was about a foot and a half deep, when they went to pick the disc out of the water the movement of their hand into the water dislodged the disc (it could have just moved of its own accord as he hadn't touched the disc) and it washed downstream taking it 10 foot closer to the basket. He played his shot from where we had first tried to recover the disc, without a penalty stroke (this was a friendly round but I wonder what the rule would be in competition) . Was this correct or should the new lie have been taken?
On the course I play on there are a number of small streams that run across it, most of which are designated casual water.
I have two questions that both came up in a friendly round I was playing the other day.
1. My disc landed in a crook of the stream, going in a line straight back from the basket the nearest dry land was over 3 foot away. My understanding was you could only go back a foot(30 cms) from where the disc lay in the casual water. Do you keep going until you hit dry land in this instance or do you get your feet wet?
2. My friends disc landed in the same stream which was running quite fast. This was on a bend of the stream which turned towards the basket. The water had flooded a bit and was about a foot and a half deep, when they went to pick the disc out of the water the movement of their hand into the water dislodged the disc (it could have just moved of its own accord as he hadn't touched the disc) and it washed downstream taking it 10 foot closer to the basket. He played his shot from where we had first tried to recover the disc, without a penalty stroke (this was a friendly round but I wonder what the rule would be in competition) . Was this correct or should the new lie have been taken?