What Does Lateral Hazard Mean in Golf?
Also known as Red penalty area.
By The Fairway Labs TeamReviewed
Course features
Golf term
Lateral hazard
Lateral hazard in practice
Red stakes or lines mark a lateral hazard, versus yellow for a straight-behind water hazard. Creeks that trace the edge of a fairway are almost always marked red for exactly this reason.
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