[lionsiy]

I recently found myself in a bunker on the 9th hole, with the lip being a good 5-6 feet high. It has this weird unfinished grass on the lips because they were just being renovated, the stuff is light brown and feels like very dry grass. I didn't take a high enough lofted club and found myself in this situation:



as you can see, my ball got wedged inside the lip of the bunker. I removed it, and took a 1 stroke penalty as an unplayable. I felt it should have been a free lift, as my ball ripped through the netting to keep the mud inside the lip, and I felt the lip was still "under construction"

What is the ruling?