The ball was in bounds.
You have missed a key element in quoting 18.2a(2) which has allowed an element of uncertainty and confusion to creep in:
(2) When Ball Is Out of Bounds. A ball at rest is out of bounds only when all of it is outside the boundary edge of the course.
A ball is in bounds...
I just saw Wyndham Clark's caddie doing what has been referred to above. Nothing to see here from a rules perspective. All he is doing is standing over the putt himself with some sort of wedge in his hand - I assume to get his own feel for what the putt entails. A sort of visualisation routine...
There are some good points in here. I also favour the idea of a separate sub forum for handicapping issues.
The handicapping questions that come up here are not related to the Rules of Golf 99% of the time. For the other 1%, where there is overlap, somebody can ask a moderator to move the...
Yes. The act of dropping it and playing it makes it the ball in play and therefore, by definition, not a wrong ball.
Note Rule 14.5a is relevant here. When a player has substituted another ball for the original ball when not allowed under the Rules the player may correct the mistake without...
The quiz question doesn't say that the substitute ball is played from the wrong place because that is the point of it being a quiz question. We have to work these things out for ourselves as part of the 'fun' of doing the quiz.
As explained in #18, the second (incorrectly substituted) ball...
In the situation you describe here, the found ball is the wrong ball and the player incurs a two stroke penalty for playing it. The player’s original ball is still the ball in play.
The difference is that the player has dropped and played the second ball (i.e. the player has put the...
Just to clarify - in this scenario, once the substitute ball is played, the original ball is a wrong ball, not a wrong place situation. Still a two stroke penalty.
Rule 19.2 is explicit. In order to take back-on-the-line relief or lateral relief, the player must know the spot of the original ball.
So it doesn't matter if the wrong ball is sitting directly on top of the player’s original ball (i.e. they are in near identical positions). If the original...
The references in the question to the search period might be a red herring but not for the reason you suggest.
There are situations when the "clock stops" on the three minute search period and such time does not count towards the player's three minutes. One example given in the Clarifications...
Since the player did not know the spot of the original ball at the time the other ball was substituted, the player is treated as having taken stroke-and-distance relief (one penalty stroke) and did so in a wrong place (two penalty strokes) (Clarification 19.2/5)
My take on it is:
Tee shot - 1...