ggarf
New member
I had an incident last weekend where I walked to a tee with a spare ball in my pocket. This is a hole which is a dog leg and it is best to have a spare ball, in case.
At the tee I took out a ball which wasn't the one I had been playing with the rest of the round. Tee'd off and smashed it over the corner to the middle of the fairway. When I got to the ball I then realised I had hit the spare ball, showing my other ball to my playing partners. They then insisted that this was a 2 shot penalty as I hadn't identified my ball before hitting it.
Is this correct, a 2 shot penalty?
At the tee I took out a ball which wasn't the one I had been playing with the rest of the round. Tee'd off and smashed it over the corner to the middle of the fairway. When I got to the ball I then realised I had hit the spare ball, showing my other ball to my playing partners. They then insisted that this was a 2 shot penalty as I hadn't identified my ball before hitting it.
Is this correct, a 2 shot penalty?