Red stakes are used to mark a lateral water hazard.

This can be exactly the same as a normal water hazard - and in some cases may be a different stretch of the same stream.

But instead of running across a hole, a lateral water hazard runs towards it.

Because of this it is not possible to drop the ball behind the water in the same way for a normal water hazard.

The rules for playing and dropping the ball are the same as for the normal water hazard except in one regard.

A player can drop a ball within two clubs lengths of where the ball crossed the hazard on either side of the ditch as long as it is no nearer the hole.