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Originally Posted by cgkdisc

The third item regarding broken branches came up today. One significant change from last year to this year is dealing with brush piles. Last year, it was difficult to take relief in a brush pile because you could not move any branches that projected in front of your lie, even if they were in your stance. In 2011, since the dead branches are defined as casual objects, you are now allowed to move them even if some of them project in front of your lie. But more importantly, you can take casual relief back off the brush pile with no penalty if it's not possible to move the brush (without a major effort).

there are several courses i have been to that use dead branches and logs as fairway and path liners. this new rule concerns me because a player could use to try and move these branches/logs out of their stance even though they are apart of the course. if the TD does not call out beforehand that these are apart of the course does that make it legal to move them? or because it is obviously apart of the course they can not be moved.