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Ball in hazard or not? Seeing it go in...

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  • #32
    SnowDrifts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,733 ✭✭✭SnowDrifts


    Howjoe1 wrote: »
    my guess is that if the ball finishes up out of bounds then it is.....

    out of bounds.....and back to the tee box.

    but i might be wrong

    Thats what he ended up doing but there was a debate along the lines of if you were to declare a ball lost and subsequently find it after playing on, you can't play the first ball. So... if it was virtually certain it was in the hazard.....


  • #33
    nocal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭nocal


    SnowDrifts wrote: »
    Thats what he ended up doing but there was a debate along the lines of if you were to declare a ball lost and subsequently find it after playing on, you can't play the first ball. So... if it was virtually certain it was in the hazard.....

    Oh holy mother of God....:eek::eek::eek:


  • #34
    SnowDrifts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,733 ✭✭✭SnowDrifts


    nocal wrote: »
    Oh holy mother of God....:eek::eek::eek:

    Ok pedantic pat - I know you can't declare a ball lost. Now, have you got any relevant information to the original post? - No? - Well, be gone.


  • #35
    nocal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 798 ✭✭✭nocal


    Yes - if the ball ends up out of bounds....it is out of bounds....in fact I believe if you even read this thread - this very point is covered - an example of a ball landing in a stream and flowing out of bounds was given. (See post #21.)

    So less of your be gone thank you very much.


  • #36
    SnowDrifts
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,733 ✭✭✭SnowDrifts


    Glad to have a definitive answer, thank you.


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  • #37
    PhilipMarlowe
    Subscribers Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭PhilipMarlowe


    One you have the "virtual certainty" that the ball is in the hazard then it's okay to proceed under the "ball in hazard options". The "virtual" leaves just enough wriggle room. However, if you drop a ball into play and then find the original outside the hazard that's a different story - and it's different again if you played the dropped ball before the original was found (playing from wrong place etc). And it's different again if you elected to drop a ball into play but didn't have the virtual certainty in the first place.... :)

    Go to the R&A site and root around in the rules (26, 27, 20?). You'll need to be reading the decisions on the rules rather than the rules themselves where some of these scenarios will likely be covered.


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