Crazyface
Tour Winner
I had this scenario the other day playing with a mate. I hit a good drive taking a tiger line over a tree. Set off to find it. Parked trolley up and wandered around for a bit, up and down as you do, into a tree infested area and all around, but no sign. So we gave up. My mate set off back to the other side of the fairway passing my trolley as he did so and as if by magic there was my ball about two meters from my trolley sitting up dead easy to spot. "how didn't you see it you blind, beep beep beepity beep".
Now before you say that's the rules mate, surely there should be something in the rules to say that if then the ball was found outside the 3 minute search time but clearly in an area that it should have been found ,just wasn't because people looking for it didn't walk in that area, I mean it was closer to the fairway for Gods sake! In fact only just in the rough. How I didn't see it I'll never know. Had it been in a medal and I'd had a proper round going I'd have been a bit miffed to say the least.
Now before you say that's the rules mate, surely there should be something in the rules to say that if then the ball was found outside the 3 minute search time but clearly in an area that it should have been found ,just wasn't because people looking for it didn't walk in that area, I mean it was closer to the fairway for Gods sake! In fact only just in the rough. How I didn't see it I'll never know. Had it been in a medal and I'd had a proper round going I'd have been a bit miffed to say the least.