It may not happen to most golfers that often, but golf balls do sometimes decide not to fall back to earth when they clatter into a tree, and rather remain lodged in the branches or foliage potentially some way above the ground. So, what are your options when this happens?
Well, after someone has inevitably suggested that you need a ‘tree-iron’, the first thing to say is that if you are unable to positively identify a ball you see up in the branches as yours, your ball will be deemed lost and you will have to go back to where you last played from under penalty of stroke and distance.
