unplayable lie, dropping a ball under Rule
28 [Ball Unplayable] does not render your
original ball lost. If your original ball is
found within five minutes after search for
it has begun, and you have not yet played
a stroke with the provisionally dropped
ball, the original ball remains the ball
in play. See Decision 27-2b/6.5 [Player
Deems Provisional Ball Unplayable and
Drops Ball; Original Ball Then Found].
• If the provisional ball comes to rest
short of where your original ball is likely
to be, playing the provisional ball from
that point does not render your original
ball lost even though you may have walked
forward to briefly search for your original
ball coming back to play the provisional
ball. See Decision 27-2b/3 [Original Ball
is Beyond Provisional Ball; Player Searches
Briefly for Original Ball, Plays Provisional
Ball and Then Finds Original Ball].
• If you play a provisional ball from the
place where the original ball is likely to be or
from a point nearer the hole than that place,
and then you discover that your original ball
had actually come to rest further forward
than that place because it had, for example,
bounced for some distance down a cart path,
your original ball is lost. See Decision 272b/4 [Provisional Ball Played from Beyond
Where Original Ball Likely to Be But Not
Beyond Where Original Ball Found].
birdies&
bogeys
when was the best time of your
golf life?
College golfers, still with so
much golf ahead, gave us their
takes.
Playing in the European boys
for Scotland under 18s in
Sweden. – Lawrence Allan,
Scotland
Playing for my home province
in the National final in New
Zealand. – James Anstiss,
New Zealand
Playing Old Corkscrew with
my cousin Heath Slocum.
– Wyatt Ott,
Ponchatoula, Louisiana
Playing and winning the
European boys for France, in
Scotland.
– Joris Etlin, France
Playing TPC Sawgrass.
Scratch that. Meeting Mr.
Vokey was better.
– William Meyers,
Baton Rouge
Played golf with the lads
back home and had 30
birdies between the four of
us. Recorded a couple eagles
and a hole in one the same
round.
– Bailey Smith,
New Zealand
Playing the British Am in Carnoustie.
– Paul Obermann,
Germany
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