1. I go looking for my ball (Srixon Trispeed) and can't find it. I walk by a tree and see a Callaway ball and a guy picking up his bag. I ask if he's playing a Callaway and he says yeah, he just hit it. "So this isn;t yours?" Oops, guy hit my ball instead.
I just dropped a ball where he hit and didn't take any penalties rather than chase my ball 200 yds down the other fairway.
Technically, I suppose I get a penalty for changing balls but is there an exception here? Or another penalty?? (BTW, I hit it in to the trees se[perating two fairways, for clarity)
2. Cpouldn't find my ball and was about to just drop one around where I lost it when my playing partner found it... in the bottom of a 6" wide cup surrounding a sprinkler head, about 4 inches under ground. Apparently the plastic cover broke, leaving the plastic cup open.
Again I took a drop with no penalty (you guys seeing a pattern? )
3. Some jackass rode his dirt bike on a green and did a donut, leaving some deep scars in the green. I chipped a ball in to one.
I placed the ball just over the lip of the deep groove, with no penalty (amazing! )
I realize I musta been forced to take pentalties on at least one of those, but can you tell me how each should have actually been worked out, by the rules?
I just dropped a ball where he hit and didn't take any penalties rather than chase my ball 200 yds down the other fairway.
Technically, I suppose I get a penalty for changing balls but is there an exception here? Or another penalty?? (BTW, I hit it in to the trees se[perating two fairways, for clarity)
2. Cpouldn't find my ball and was about to just drop one around where I lost it when my playing partner found it... in the bottom of a 6" wide cup surrounding a sprinkler head, about 4 inches under ground. Apparently the plastic cover broke, leaving the plastic cup open.
Again I took a drop with no penalty (you guys seeing a pattern? )
3. Some jackass rode his dirt bike on a green and did a donut, leaving some deep scars in the green. I chipped a ball in to one.
I placed the ball just over the lip of the deep groove, with no penalty (amazing! )
I realize I musta been forced to take pentalties on at least one of those, but can you tell me how each should have actually been worked out, by the rules?