Dear Linda,
My husband and I have two different understandings on how to score an out-of-bounds ball.
If you hit your ball off the tee out of bounds and you put down another ball and hit it into
the fairway - when you get to the ball and hit again what is your count so far???
Thanks,
Lulu
Dear Lulu,
Count all your strokes plus the one-stroke penalty for hitting out of bounds.
The first tee shot is stroke #1. The penalty for going out of bounds is one stroke [Rule 27-1b]. 1+1=2. The second tee shot (the one that lands happily on the fairway) is stroke #3. The stroke you make in the fairway will be stroke #4.
The best part of your question, for me, is knowing that you understand that whenever a ball goes out of bounds, your next stroke must be taken where you hit your previous stroke.
So who was right?
Linda
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