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What are a player’s options if they have mud on their ball?
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A player may try and move a loose impediment that is near there ball.
A loose impediment is:
Any unattached natural object such as:
Stones, loose grass, leaves, branches and sticks,
Dead animals and animal waste,
Worms, insects and similar animals that can be removed easily, and the mounds or webs they build (such as worm casts and ant hills), and
Clumps of compacted soil (including aeration plugs).
However, a loose impediment is not something that is:
Attached or growing,
Solidly embedded in the ground (that is, cannot be picked out easily), or
Sticking to the ball.
Special cases:
Sand and Loose Soil are not loose impediments.
Dew, Frost and Water are not loose impediments.
Snow and Natural Ice (other than frost) are either loose impediments or, when on the ground, temporary water, at the player’s option.
Spider Webs are loose impediments even though they are attached to another object.
Therefore, unless Dustin Johnson’s ball was on the green, he was not permitted to remove the mud that was sticking to his ball.
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