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Video Tutorial: Recovery from a Water Hazard

Written by  Andrew Wild on Thursday, 17 February 2011
What happens when you accidently hit your ball into a water hazard? PGA Professional and general manager at Sandford Springs Golf Club shows us the etiquette to start again from where we left off.




Hi I’m here on the fifth hole, a lovely par four, unfortunately I have driven the ball a little further than I wanted to and it has gone into the water hazard, which is marked out by the yellow posts. 

Now, what I can do, I can either play my first shot again which I don’t want to on this occasion, or if I mark the point where the ball entered the hazard, I keep that mark in line with the flag, and then I can go as far back – unlimited distance back – to where I want to drop the ball. 

So on this occasion, I’m going to mark it – flag’s in there – so I’m going to drop the ball at this point. So again, standing upright, arm out in front, drop the ball – that ball is now in play.
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Andrew Wild

Andrew Wild

Andrew manages all aspects of Sandford Springs including Food and Beverage, Golf, Finance and Memberships.

Andrew originally met the Chairman, Paul Gibbons, when he was an assistant Golf Pro at Reading Golf Club 28 years ago.

Interestingly, 15 years later Andrew was giving Paul a series of lessons, during which he mentioned there was a club in Hampshire which was up for sale. After going to visit the club, Mr Gibbons ended up buying Sandford Springs. 

Andrew joined the company a couple of years later and six years on, he became the General Manager at the club they had first discussed all that time ago.

Andrew has a deep passion for the game of golf, which aids his enthusiasm in all his endeavours at Sandford Springs. Aside from playing, he enjoys simply being around the golf club and takes a great interest in looking after his members.

He believes that the atmosphere at Sandford Springs is second to none and finds it such a pleasure to be involved with the club that, in his own words – "Sometimes it doesn't even feel like work".

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