Dear Linda,
What is the ruling when you don't know when you started
playing with the wrong ball? During the competition a player only
realised she wasn't playing her ball when she began to putt. What should she have
done? Should she have gone back to the tee and taken a 2 point penalty? As it
was she disqualified herself because she didn't know what she needed to do.
regards
Lulu from Australia
Dear Lulu,
A competitor who hits a wrong ball must abandon that ball,
find her original ball, and complete play of the hole with the original ball.
She incurs a two-stroke penalty for hitting a wrong ball. The strokes she made
hitting the wrong ball do not count in her score.
If the player is unable to find her original ball (which is
a likely possibility if she has no idea where to begin search), she has a lost
ball and must return to the tee.
The player’s second tee shot will be her fifth stroke on the
hole – one stroke for her original tee shot, two-stroke penalty for hitting a
wrong ball, one-stroke penalty for a lost ball.
Linda
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