You found your ball.
Your ball is in bounds and not near the course boundaries.
Your ball is not in a hazard.
Your ball is not in a tree well.
Your ball is not in an animal hole.
Your ball is not anywhere near a cart path.
Your ball is not next to an obstruction of any kind.
Your ball is not in a chair or in the gallery.
Neither the tournament director or the golf course has deemed the area to be ground under repair.
You have a good, clean and dry lie – perhaps the best lie you'll get all day.
Yet you can't play your ball from this spot.
Where?
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How about the wrong putting green.
25-3/b. Wrong Putting Green
If a player’s ball lies on a wrong putting green, he must not play the ball as it lies. He must take relief, without penalty, as follows:
The player must lift the ball and drop it within one club-length of and not nearer the hole than the nearest point of relief. The nearest point of relief must not be in a hazard or on a putting green. When dropping the ball within one club-length of the nearest point of relief, the ball must first strike a part of the course at a spot that avoids interference by the wrong putting green and is not in a hazard and not on a putting green. The ball may be cleaned when lifted under this Rule.
Penalty: 2 strokes
Seung-yul Noh did just that during the first round of the 2014 The Barclays (FedEx Playoffs). He played a rather good shot off the green and was penalized two strokes. Here's the YouTube video.
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