rosecott
Money List Winner
The phrase used in the rules is "piled for removal" which suggests a fairly substantial amount which realistically could not be confused with a small amount of grass clippings - I think I'll mark your card.
I should have anticipated that question! If the lie of a ball to be replaced has been altered, you find the nearest similar lie within a club length. (Rule 20-3b).
In this case, the ball has probably been pressed into the ground by the weight of the player with no way of restoring it to its previous vertical place.
it was worth a try!!!!!The phrase used in the rules is "piled for removal" which suggests a fairly substantial amount which realistically could not be confused with a small amount of grass clippings - I think I'll mark your card.
Oops, correct, not the opponent.
That'll be a one shot penalty, then.
more importantly, the actual lie is irrelevant here as it's unknown. if it was known the player wouldn't have trodden on it! (accepting the 1:1,000,000,000 situation where the player sees the ball a microsecond before stepping on it and has such cognition that they can know the lie as was)