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Q.
Charley Hull spent 2 minutes searching for her ball before deciding her ball was lost. Then on getting another ball to head back to the tee, her ball was found and she then identified it. Is her original ball lost as she decided, or is it still the ball in play?
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You are not permitted to declare a ball lost as Interpretation Lost/1 explains:
A player may not make a ball lost by a declaration. A ball is lost only when it has not been found within three minutes after the player or his or her caddie or partner begins to search for it.
For example, a player searches for his or her ball for two minutes, declares it lost and walks back to play another ball. Before the player puts another ball in play, the original ball is found within the three-minute search time. Since the player may not declare his or her ball lost, the original ball remains in play.
Therefore, Charley’s original ball was still the ball in play.
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