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You’ve been given the answer multiple  times by multiple people in multiple ways.

You’re entitled to relief from an embedded ball if you can reasonably make a stroke at the ball in any direction. That doesn’t mean only toward the hole. The ball has to meet the definition of “embedded.”

That is about it.

If the Local Rule limiting relief to situations in the fairway is in effect then that applies and a ball that close to a tree is probably in rough or something.

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If your ball was sitting hard up against and OOB wall but not embedded in the ground you would find it difficult to make a reasonable stroke in any direction. If it was embedded in the ground you woul

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If your ball is embedded in the general area you're entitled to relief (assuming the Local Rule isn't in effect limiting it to fairway height or lower). If you can chip out sideways, then the ball

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The Rule says, as you seem to know: Exceptions – When Relief Not Allowed for Ball Embedded in General Area: Relief under Rule 16.3b is not allowed: When interference by anything other than t

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