Improve Your Lie: To move the ball to make a shot easier. This is illegal unless local rules dictate otherwise.
In Play: Within the confines of the course (not out-of-bounds).
5. You may not improve your lie by moving, breaking, or bending growing vegetation
6. You may move loose ,natural impediments (tree branches, fallen leaves or stones) ...
Example: It is against the rules to improve your lie/bump it unless the committee has invoked winter rules/preferred lies. in (also "back, back nine, back side, last nine, second nine") the last nine holes (10-18) of an eighteen hole golf course ...
You may not improve your lie by pressing down behind the ball. The club may be grounded only lightly behind the ball.
Don't improve your lie, the area of your intended swing or your line of play or a reasonable extension of that line beyond the hole by moving, bending or breaking anything fixed or growing except in fairly taking your stance or making your swing.
Don't improve your lie, the area of your intended swing or your line of play by moving, bending or breaking anything fixed or growing except in fairly taking your stance or making your swing. Don't press anything down or build a stance.
The local rules may allow you to improve your lie because of the condition of the course. You are usually allowed to clean the ball and more it no more than one card length from the original position.
Press ...
Often put into effect when course conditions are not acceptable for playing the ball as it lies, usually due to wet or soggy conditions. Example: It is against the rules to improve your lie/bump it unless the committee has invoked winter ...
 See also: Golf, Swing, Hazard, Penalty, Match Play
  
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