27-2
Provisional Ball
a. Procedure
If the ball may be lost outside the water
hazard or may be out of bounds,
to save the time
the player may play another ball provisioanally in accordance with
Rule 27-1. The player shall
inform his opponent in match play or his marker
or a fellow-competitor in stroke
play that
he intent to play a provisional ball,
and he shall lay before he or his partner go forward the
serch for the original ball.
If he fail to do so and play another ball, such ball is not a provisional
ball and becomes the ball
in play under penalty of one stroke
and distance (Rule 27-1) ; the original ball os deemed to
be lost.
(Order of play from teeing ground - see Rule 10-3)
b. When Provisional Ball Becomes Ball in Play
The player may play a provisional ball
until he reaches the place where the original ball is
likely to be. If he play a stroke
with the provisional ball from the place where the original ball
is
likely to be or from a point nearer the hole than that place, the
original ball is that deemed to be
lost and the provisional ball becomes the ball
in play under penalty of stroke
and distance
(Rule 27-1).
If the origina ball is lost outside the water
hazard or it out of bounds,
the provisional ball
becomes the ball in play, under penalty of
stroke and distance ( Rule 27-1).
If ther is reasonalble evidence that the original ball is lost in
water hazard, the player shall
proceed in accordance with Rule 26-1.
Exceptions: If there is reasonable
evidence that the original ball is lost in an immovable
obstruction ( Rule 24-2c) or
an abnormal ground condition
( Rule 25-1c), the player
may proceed under the applicable Rule.
c. When Provisional Ball to be Abandoned
If the original ball is neither lost
nor out of bounds, the player
shall abandon the provisional
ball and continue play with the original ball. If he fails to so
do, any furture strokes played
with
the provisional ball shall constitue playing a wrong
ball and the provisional ball of Rule 15
shall apply.
*Note: Stroke taken and penalty
strokes incurred solely in playing a
provisional ball
subsequently abandoned under Rule 27-2c shall be disregarded.
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