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    Choosing Which Club To Use

    As you progress each shot down the fairway, the distance between your ball and the flagstick becomes shorter and shorter. This means that your goal is to hit the ball as far as possible from the tee shot. Then on all subsequent shots you will need to adjust your swing for accuracy and precision, not distance.

    This requires that you utilize different clubs for different shots. The club faces are made from either metal or wood. Different materials on a golf club will have different effects on how far the ball will travel, and how high it will go.

    Choosing An Iron or Wood

    Generally speaking, the higher the number on the club, such as a 9-iron for example, the higher the ball will go into the air, but with much less distance than a lower-numbered club, such as a 3-iron.

    If you are new to golf and are a little confused about these numbers and what clubs to use, don't worry, in time you will have a specific feel for each and every one of your 14 clubs when playing on the golf course.

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    What Is A Lateral Water Hazard?

    By Foursome

    A lateral water hazard is an unfortunate shot in which you must penalize yourself by one stroke. Always marked by red stakes, a lateral water hazard is located on the sides of the hole and is positioned between yourself and the flagstick.

    A small stream may border the hole and could be considered a lateral hazard. Other times, a lateral hazard itself may not be made up of water, but could be a dried up riverbed, ditch, or swamp.

    Whatever the area is made of, it will be marked by red stakes or simply spray painted as a red line on the grass. Just like any standard water hazard, you are entitled to attempt to hit the ball out of a lateral water hazard area if you think you can make it. However, if a shot is looking totally unplayable, you have four choices:

    1. You may drop the golf ball behind the water area. Your choice here is to drop the ball at any place behind the lateral water hazard onto a virtual line. This virtual line should be running from the hole to the exact area where the ball entered the water.

    2. You may replay your shot. Simply stated, you have the opportunity to just go back to the same area in which you originally shot the ball from and play it over.

    3. You may drop the ball within the same length, or less, of two clubs where the ball crossed over the line of the lateral hazard. This is called a “2-club drop”.

    4. Lastly, similar to the 2-club drop, you may choose an area on the opposite side of your lateral water hazard and then place the ball within the lengths of two clubs from that point. Basically, you’re utilizing the 2-club drop on the opposite side of the water area.

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