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| | [email][/email]when playing afourball betterball match our two opponents drove into a lateral water hazzard running by side of fairway, both players took a provisional ball. the first player played her provisional ball again as she had not reached the place where her first ball had entered the water hazzard, the ball landed on the green and she had a quick look for her original ball and declared it lost and her provisional ball was ball in play. The second player used the rule of dropping a third ball two club lengths from the edge of water hazzard as her original ball was not found. My question is was both players right or only one of them or should both players not played provisinal balls. |
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| Hello Don,
To suggest the two players KNEW their tee shots were in the lateral implies a lack of practical golfing application as well as a lack of basic Rules knowledge.
(Why play 3 off the tee when you could be playing 3 from 150+ yards nearer?).
But you could be right. If both Players KNEW their original balls were in the LWH, then it is a different kettle of fish. Their subsequent tee shots CAN'T be provisional. The Rules define a provisional ball as one that is played for a ball that might be Lost outside a Water Hazard or OoB. Their 2nd tee shots were not played under those circumstances and so automatically became their balls in play.
In that case, Player 1 did the right thing (albeit by accident).
As for the 2nd player, I considered Wrong Place, I plumped for R15-3 Wrong Ball, but that should have been R15-2 stroke at Wrongly Substituted Ball - LoH.
I didn't even think of R28.
I would obviously go with your suggestion on that one. Always learning.
ATB,
SH. |
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