[Bulls9999]

Sometimes your choice can be helped by the shape of the hole. This scenario comes up on our course on a par-5 banana-dog-leg-right...the tee is at 4'o'clock and hitting to the fairway at 8 o'clock, then a 2nd shot to 11 o'clock and 3rd to the green at 1 o'clock....the trees/woods are in the middle of the clock. The dogleg is a banana right turn, moving back on a line from the hole to the ball puts you out on the fairway about 150 yrd off the tee at ~7 o'clock, so in that case, much better than stroke and distance (or original tee shot).

But back to your original question....not sure..."can you stroke your way back to the tee?", lol, costly if allowed.

Originally Posted by Ty_Webb

On a connected note, if you hit your ball into the woods, find it and decide you have a shot out in spite of the fact that you have maybe thirty yards worth of trees to get out from, hit it and it hits a tree and bounces back further into the trees behind you, do you have the option of declaring that unplayable and dropping it back where you played your second shot from and then declaring that one unplayable again and going back to the tee? Or in shortened version, once you have a go at hitting it, are you stuck in the trees or can you take an unplayable and get back out again (assuming b is not a reasonable option)?