| Interestingly, I was in a situation similar on Thursday in a seniors match (match play in pairs).
I duffed my tee shot off a par 3 into waist high grass 40 yards. I asked one of the locals we were playing with if that was going to be findable, and he said "No chance in there!". So I hit a provisional which was OK.
Now.... I looked, and found it. deep in the grass on a pile of stones. Unplayable. Took a drop, and frankly, it was still unplayable, so I picked up.
After the hole, my partner told me that I should have declared the first ball lost, and that a second ball off the tee declared to be "the ball in play" before it was hit, rather than call it a provisional.
Is that right?
R. |