2006 #6 Unplayable in Bunker

The Scene:
Your fourth shot on hole #12 went high and right then dropped straight down into the greenside bunker. You climb down into the bunker, determined to get your ball up and over the high lip (Can you call that big hill a lip?). So, you swing back and kill it. Your ball not only doesn’t get up, it buries itself up under the lip. You know you’ll never get it up from there.

You can take one penalty stroke and declare your ball unplayable. But then what? You could hit from where you hit before. But that was in the bunker and playing from there is what got you into this mess. So,

What would you do?
A. Take another penalty stroke to get out of the bunker? Drop your ball behind the bunker on an imaginary straight line that runs from the flag through your ball and back as far as you wish?
B.  Drop your ball, inside the bunker within 2 club lengths of where it lies?
C.  Drop your ball on an imaginary straight line that runs from the flag through your ball and back as far as you wish? But drop inside the bunker?

Either B or C is correct.

If you chose A you probably know that for a price you can get out of the bunker when there is interference from an Immoveable Obstruction or Casual Water or Ground Under Repair. But you can’t pay your way out for an Unplayable Lie. I’m sorry, but in this scenario you are stuck in the bunker.

REMEMBER: If your ball lies unplayable in a bunker, except for playing your ball from where you played before, your options don’t include any way to drop your ball outside of the bunker. You’ll have to play your way out.