I am not a golfer but on occasion (4 times to be exact) I have participated in office shotgun "best ball" golf days. One of those was on the Maxwell AFB course that is next to the Alabama River. I hit my shot into the rough and went to retrieve the ball when one of my team mates, an avid duffer, said not to walk out there without a iron in my hand. I asked him if that was rule since I wasn't planning on playing the lie (just noticed how that word goes well with golf.) Anyway, he said it was to kill the moccasins. I told him the snakes could keep the damn ball.