Ball ID

Foxholer said:
You were both equally at fault.

By announcing the Ball and Id, it should spark a query when someone else makes/would make exactly the same announcement!

Highly unusual though!
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I was once playing the 16th during a practice round with custom printed PD Softs. Walked up and saw 2 balls but saw my logo and got ready to play the shot. Guy on 15th (which runs alongside) came up and thought I was playing his ball. I pointed to the logo and told him that they were my own custom design. He then revealed he was playing a ball with the same logo on it that he'd found.

Luckily I am in a habit of using at least 3 colours when marking up my balls (one for each in a sleeve) and knew mine was a Red 2. When he looked at the other ball it was also a 2 but was marked up in blue. It had actually fallen out of my bag and they'd picked it up when coming behind me.
 
Foxholer said:
Through (very mild and accidental) negligence. By not announcing/checking that there was no clash.
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That's gonna make the 1st tee interesting at my next comp as I announce.......

"I'm playing a Titleist Pro v1 with the initials CAD in black marker pen just below the putting guide line, there is slightly more ink on the A as I pressed harder, so, if any of you have been up to your gonads in a holly bush and found the one I lost last Saturday and are planning to use it today, please say now as I don't want to risk not being able to identify my balls if they happen to be lying together in the middle of the fairway!"

I'll let you know how it goes! :whoo:
 
chrisd said:
That's gonna make the 1st tee interesting at my next comp as I announce.......

"I'm playing a Titleist Pro v1 with the initials CAD in black marker pen just below the putting guide line, there is slightly more ink on the A as I pressed harder, so, if any of you have been up to your gonads in a holly bush and found the one I lost last Saturday and are planning to use it today, please say now as I don't want to risk not being able to identify my balls if they happen to be lying together in the middle of the fairway!"

I'll let you know how it goes! :whoo:
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You could always take to marking with something that no other person would play with. One of my playing partners and a fellow forum-er thought that a cartoon depiction of genitalia was a good choice to draw on mine while I wasn't looking.
 
chrisd said:
That's gonna make the 1st tee interesting at my next comp as I announce.......

"I'm playing a Titleist Pro v1 with the initials CAD in black marker pen just below the putting guide line, there is slightly more ink on the A as I pressed harder, so, if any of you have been up to your gonads in a holly bush and found the one I lost last Saturday and are planning to use it today, please say now as I don't want to risk not being able to identify my balls if they happen to be lying together in the middle of the fairway!"

I'll let you know how it goes! :whoo:
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You forgot to mention the Number!

Oddly, stating Penta 68, Red Dot didn't get any 'Hang on, I've got one of those' at the KoK.

I have had someone say they had an 89 though! :whistle: I actually ended up with an imprint of it on my forearm! A reverse shank from 5 or 6 yards away that just missed someone else's head and would have smashed my skull if I hadn't reacted as quick as I did!
 
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palindromicbob said:
You could always take to marking with something that no other person would play with. One of my playing partners and a fellow forum-er thought that a cartoon depiction of genitalia was a good choice to draw on mine while I wasn't looking.
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Last year at Gainsborough, Smiffy, in another group, strayed onto the middle of our fairway. When he got to his ball, a certain very tall forummer had very helpfully added an identifying mark in large letters reading "knob". Smiffy was not amused.
 
Foxholer said:
Isn't it peculiar that folk who would be quite civil to each other elsewhere suddenly 'turn nasty' on a Golf course!

He was correct that it was none of your business and to insist would be wrong. By all means make a suggestion though! I have seen several instances of same ball/different marking!

As to the OP. Both balls are Lost - there's a Decision (27/10) about exactly this situation.
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Had a situation once on 18th at my club . ==I hit a good drive and FC hit good drive got to balls and one was on fairway and one in bad lie 6 inches in the rough could only see the top of ball.== I asked the FC to identify his ball on the fairway and he looked and said it was his so the one in the rough was mine both playing Pro V1 #1.== 2 seconds after I had hacked it out he says "Sorry this is yours " I went over and my ID mark was clearly visable . ===To say I was not amused is an understatement .=== But ultimately its my fault I should have made sure it was mine before I hit it but I took his word for it . ===Just for clarity if this had been a matchplay would I have a case for wrong information given.
 
clubchamp98 said:
Had a situation once on 18th at my club . ==I hit a good drive and FC hit good drive got to balls and one was on fairway and one in bad lie 6 inches in the rough could only see the top of ball.== I asked the FC to identify his ball on the fairway and he looked and said it was his so the one in the rough was mine both playing Pro V1 #1.== 2 seconds after I had hacked it out he says "Sorry this is yours " I went over and my ID mark was clearly visable . ===To say I was not amused is an understatement .=== But ultimately its my fault I should have made sure it was mine before I hit it but I took his word for it . ===Just for clarity if this had been a matchplay would I have a case for wrong information given.
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I'm not absolutely certain, but I think you lose the hole. The only 'wrong information' the Rules seem concerned about are where it's related to the score. I believe the rest is your responsibility.
 
Foxholer said:
I'm not absolutely certain, but I think you lose the hole. The only 'wrong information' the Rules seem concerned about are where it's related to the score. I believe the rest is your responsibility.
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Correct. Rule 6-5 states it's the player's responsibility to ensure they play the proper ball.

Whose ball is whose is not advice and therefore does does not fall under rule 8, and rule 9-2b about wrong information is indeed about strokes taken. You played a wrong ball therefore lose the hole.
 
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Foxholer said:
I'm not absolutely certain, but I think you lose the hole. The only 'wrong information' the Rules seem concerned about are where it's related to the score. I believe the rest is your responsibility.
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Yes I thought so thanks. I wasn't very happy though and I think he knew it.
 
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