Measuring One or Two Club-Lengths
When taking relief from an obstruction, the player is allowed to drop within one club length of the nearest point of relief.
Tee off within two club-lengths behind the front edges of the tee-markers.
It is a rectangular area two club-lengths in depth, the front and the sides of which are defined by the outside limits of two tee-markers. A ball is outside the teeing ground when all of it lies outside the teeing ground.
I had been too busy learning about how to keep the right knee bent during takeaway and whether the rules allow one or two club-lengths' relief from an immovable obstruction.
Now would be the time to plunge in.
If your ball or your stance is in casual water, ground under repair or a burrowing animal hole, you may either play the ball as it lies or find the nearest place not nearer the hole which gives you relief, and drop the ball within one club-length of ...
A player can declare his ball unplayable at any time when it is in play (other than at a tee), and can drop the ball either within two club-lengths, or further from the hole in line with the hole and its current position, ...
Explanation of Two Club-Length Option
Q. Larry's ball is under a bush. He decides to declare the ball unplayable and elects option c under Rule 28.
If you believe your ball is unplayable outside a water hazard (and you are the sole judge), you may under penalty of one stroke, (a) drop within two club-lengths of where the ball lies not nearer the hole, ...
8) You may without penalty pick the ball up and drop it outside the area, within one-club-length of the nearest point of relief which is not nearer the hole.
4) You may move man-made objects even in a bunker or water hazard. If they are immovable, you may drop within one club-length of the nearest point of relief, no nearer the hole. In a hazard, you must drop in the hazard. NO PENALTY.
Most tee boxes are imperfect: They slope in one direction or another, have divots, etc. Tee up in a place where your feet are even and level, even if this means teeing up right next to one of the markers or moving back a club-length or two.
 See also: Hole, Golf, Stroke, Swing, Drop
  
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