[Bigvivec]

Rules or no rules, our course floods after heavy tropical storms during the rainy season with a good portion being completely underwater for a few hours before the water receeds...I play sometimes just after or while the water is still in the process of going down (talk about narrowed fairways!) and while I attempt to always play the ball down, if the ball hits the fairway and plugs with more than a third being under the surface of the fairway, we play a local lift clean and place rule...off the fairway, first of all good luck finding it, and if I do then it is a mud splash shot because lifting and placing when you miss the fairway seems too generous, but that's just me...my caddy shakes his head and keeps telling me that I am allowed to lift and place, but there ought to be a little pennance for missing the fairway, local rule or not...