Sam
Head Pro
I only started playing last autumn but am really sliced on the game. I've read the rules on lost ball and out of bounds and appreciate and understand the reasoning behind stroke and distance for OOB and for lost ball where you can tell, say, from the tee that you ball has landed in an area full of fallen leaves. Take a provisional ball from the tee. What I have never seen anyone do is go back to the tee having searched for but lost a ball following a tee shot which appeared to be OK - say clearing the trees of a dog-leg fairway or a crested fairway on a course that's new to you.
Enforcing in such circumstances would certainly slow up play
Enforcing in such circumstances would certainly slow up play