OOB and border fences?

Daddio

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Follow up to the recent complete relief thread. It's often possible to get a club on a ball and bump it out from under the fencing bordering my home course (see below). Bottom rail is maybe a foot above the ground and wood is @5" thick for reference. I've seen people bump their balls out from under it but is that legal?
Not sure if OOB should start where ball 1st intersects a line directly under the course side edge of the fencing, directly under the middle, or touches/crosses the private property edge?

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If it’s on the line, or even touching the line partially (which would be demarcated by the horizontal post) then you can play it, you can even stand out of bounds and hit the ball that is in bounds.
 
Across the fence would be out of bounds I believe.
 
Thanks guys. So completely across private property edge to be OOB? Like a puck and a goal line?
 
If half of the ball is on the line and half inside the line you can play it. If all of the ball is outside the inside edge of the line it is OB and you cannot
 
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