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Q.
If a player’s reasonable judgement determines a last point of entry crossed into a penalty area, with no other information available to the player to suggest otherwise. The player drops their ball and plays it, but then their ball is found further up the hole outside the penalty area, what is the ruling?
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The player’s substituted ball is the correct ball in play for only the one stroke penalty in this example. This is because of the following:
(2) Accepting Player’s “Reasonable Judgment” in Determining a Location When Applying the Rules.
Many Rules require a player to determine a spot, point, line, area or other location under the Rules, such as:
Estimating where a ball last crossed the edge of a penalty area,
Estimating or measuring when dropping or placing a ball in taking relief, or
Replacing a ball on its original spot (whether the spot is known or estimated).
Such determinations about location need to be made promptly and with care but often cannot be precise.
So long as the player does what can be reasonably expected under the circumstances to make an accurate determination, the player’s reasonable judgment will be accepted even if, after the stroke is made, the determination is shown to be wrong by video evidence or other information.
If a player becomes aware of a wrong determination before the stroke is made, it must be corrected (see Rule 14.5).
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