take out of play

At this month’s BMW Championship, Brandt Snedeker arrived at the 225-yard par-3 sixth hole in the final round, noted the back-left pin location and aimed his tee shot for the middle of the green to take out of play trouble to the left.

On those holes, Phil Mickelson said, competitors must decide "which line you want to take — which bunkers you want to try to bring into play or take out of play."

They have had, more or less, to take out of play the anti-German card.