Rules question · Hard
Snow on the golf course: what do the Rules say?
There is snow around your ball on the fairway. How may you treat it?
Answer
At your option, as temporary water or as a loose impediment
You may treat snow and natural ice as you choose: as temporary water with free relief, as for a puddle, or as loose impediments that you may remove. If you remove them and your ball moves off the putting green, you get one penalty stroke. Frost, however, is neither.