Ball played by someone from another group

[Orikoru]

They maybe haven’t.

It’s a problematic rule right enough but would you rather not have it and have to take S&D when you do have that degree of certainty?

No I'm fine as we are, the guy in my example was me.

 

[sjw]

But it happens from time to time particularly someone playing a wrong ball in error, a woman stoutly denied playing my ball when I had seen where it had landed , though this was not in competition. A friends course had a fox that knicked golf balls.

Depending on your taste in women, so did yours!

 

[doublebogey7]

In my case? The ball was on the other fairway, I saw a guy hitting in the area of my ball, there was still a ball in the area when I got there but it was a different make from mine. I was 100% sure he had hit mine.

For the fictional case of the ball in the hazard, I don't know about you but we've always done it. We know were the pond is, we know the line the ball was on and it's heading for the pond but no one sees it actually go in since the pond is over a little hump. You give a quick look around the pond "just in case" to clear that last bit of doubt but if you don't find it then you are pretty sure it's in the hazard. Maybe that's not good enough for you but everyone I've ever played with on that hole will usually say "that's heading for the pond" from the tee shot so you know if you don't find it that's were it has went. The pond has fairway before it and first cut to the right of it, it's not like you are looking in 2 foot tall grass.

I guess from your interpretation you will never have KVC unless you actually see it happen but that isn't really KVC in my opinion that's just 100% certain.

1) So you could see the ball come to rest on the other fairway? In which case I would agree ypou had KVC that the ball had been moved by an outside agency.

2)I explained pretty clearly the difference between short and long grass and the considerations involved. Without seeing this for myself I cannot make a judgement on whether you have KVC in this case but it sounds like you probably do.

3) Hyperbole

 

[Backache]

Being correct 19 out of 20 times with a coin flip isn't being 95% correct, there is roughly a 0.002% chance of you calling it correct that many times for that many flips. Each coin flip is independent of the other and each flip is 50/50 so if you got it correct 19 times out of 20 you had better get the lottery numbers on as well.

Yep, It's actually like getting a coin flip right between four and five times in a row