Cherry13
Head Pro
2 questions.
First - how certain do you have to be that an event has occurred? Our course has electrical wires over three holes, if you hit these wires then you MUST replay your shot and discard the first ball, my understanding is you can apply this even if your ball hits the wires whilst heading OOB.
In each of the last two rounds a situation has come up however when we haven't been certain if the ball has struck the wire. Today i played a five iron which was heading towards a ditch which was 180 yards away, i lost track of the flight and didn't see it land so assumed I'd landed in the ditch. I then played a provisional as OOB is behind the ditch and it could easily have gone out.
As i was heading towards the general direction of my shot down the right a PP shouted over that my ball was down the left 100 yards short of the green directly below the wires. We both agreed that it MUST have hit the wires, but couldn't be certain, we then agreed that the provisional I'd hit would now be my ball in play, with no penalty. Was this correct? How certain do i have to be? Theres no other logical explanation of how my ball get there.
Also, is there any issue with me using the provisional even though it was declared a provisional for a different purpose?
2nd question regarding NPR.
Funnily enough on the same hole but a different day a PP landed on a cart path, he then established the NPR no nearer the hole from where the ball had finished he proceeded to then mark it out and drop. No issue, however can he drop nearer the hole than the NPR, but not nearer than where the ball landed on the cart path?
First - how certain do you have to be that an event has occurred? Our course has electrical wires over three holes, if you hit these wires then you MUST replay your shot and discard the first ball, my understanding is you can apply this even if your ball hits the wires whilst heading OOB.
In each of the last two rounds a situation has come up however when we haven't been certain if the ball has struck the wire. Today i played a five iron which was heading towards a ditch which was 180 yards away, i lost track of the flight and didn't see it land so assumed I'd landed in the ditch. I then played a provisional as OOB is behind the ditch and it could easily have gone out.
As i was heading towards the general direction of my shot down the right a PP shouted over that my ball was down the left 100 yards short of the green directly below the wires. We both agreed that it MUST have hit the wires, but couldn't be certain, we then agreed that the provisional I'd hit would now be my ball in play, with no penalty. Was this correct? How certain do i have to be? Theres no other logical explanation of how my ball get there.
Also, is there any issue with me using the provisional even though it was declared a provisional for a different purpose?
2nd question regarding NPR.
Funnily enough on the same hole but a different day a PP landed on a cart path, he then established the NPR no nearer the hole from where the ball had finished he proceeded to then mark it out and drop. No issue, however can he drop nearer the hole than the NPR, but not nearer than where the ball landed on the cart path?