Most golfers know the rule when a ball lands in a hazard.
And most know the rule when a ball settles on a cart path. That's the situation that faced some PGA TOUR players at the 1999 Westin Texas Open in San Antonio. The par-3 sixth hole measures just 169 yards, but it proved to be one of the most difficult at LaCantera Golf Club, producing some of the toughest rulings. A cart path runs along the right side of the sixth fairway, then slopes down and through a creek bed that is usually dry, before climbing back up along the green. During the third round of the tournament, Tim Herron's tee shot was short, hit the bank in front of the green and rolled back on to the cart path and settled in the dry creek bed.