What Does Hazard Mean in Golf?
Also known as Penalty area.
By The Fairway Labs TeamReviewed
Course features
Golf term
Hazard
Hazard in practice
Red stakes (lateral) give you more drop options than yellow. Knowing where the hazards are, and laying up short of them, is basic course management that saves far more strokes than heroics.
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