{"id":43320,"date":"2017-03-28T08:51:38","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T06:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=43320"},"modified":"2017-03-28T08:51:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T06:51:40","slug":"when-a-player-may-substitute-a-ball-part-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/03\/28\/when-a-player-may-substitute-a-ball-part-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"When a player may substitute a ball: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have written on this subject a few times although there seems to be no improvement in this area.<\/p>\n

I see people substitute their golf balls in instances not permitted and sadly they get away with it without any punishment.<\/p>\n

Does everyone know that there are just a few circumstances that allow an individual to substitute a ball in play?<\/p>\n

Do we also know that it is not in all cases that a ball that has been lifted legally can be cleaned? Ok, let us read below.<\/p>\n

If a player substitutes a ball when not entitled to do so they incur a penalty of two strokes in stroke play, or loss of hole in match play, for a breach of Rule 15-3, part of which states:<\/p>\n

If a player substitutes a ball when not permitted to do so under the Rules (including an unintentional substitution when a wrong ball is dropped or placed by the player), that substituted ball is not a wrong ball; it becomes the ball in play. If the mistake is not corrected as provided for in Rule 20-6 and the player makes a stroke at an incorrectly substituted ball, he loses the hole in match play or incurs a penalty of two strokes in stroke play under the applicable Rule and, in stroke play, must play out the hole with the substituted ball.<\/p>\n

Two examples of when a player unintentionally substitutes a ball are: When a ball is marked and lifted from the putting green, put in a pocket and then a different ball is replaced at the marker and played. This precludes a player from having a favourite ball for putting only.<\/p>\n