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- If a ball touches the boundary of a water hazard, defined as its margin, it is deemed to be in the hazard.
- There are two types of water hazards:
- Water hazards, marked by yellow stakes and/or lines.
- Lateral water hazards, marked by red stakes and/or lines. (Rule 26-1)
- If a ball enters a water hazard a player has the following options, the first being to play the ball as it lies, without grounding the club prior to hitting a shot. The other options require one penalty stroke added:
- Drop the ball behind the water hazard on a line extending from the hole through the point where the ball last crossed the water hazard margin.
- Drop the ball at the point of the last shot.
- If a ball enters a lateral water hazard a player has the above options, plus two others:
- Drop the ball within two club lengths of the point where the ball last entered the hazard, no nearer the hole.
- Drop the ball within two club lengths of a point on the opposite margin of the hazard that is equidistant from the hole from where the ball last crossed the margin of the lateral hazard (a creek, for example), but no closer to the hole.
- The stakes defining a water hazard may be removed if they obstruct a player's shot.
- A local rule may provide a drop zone near a water hazard as an additional place for a player to drop the ball for the next shot after hitting into a water hazard.
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