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(d) If the player play the opponent's ball and the opponent
then play a ball outside the match, there shall be no
penalty.
The player shall then play his own ball and
the opponent shall place a ball as near as possible to
the spot which his original ball occupied and in a
similar lie.
(ii)
Paying Ball Outside the Match
(a) If
the player play a stroke or strokes with the ball of
anyone not engaged in the match, and the mistake be
discovered and intimated to his opponent before the
opponent has made his next stroke at his original ball
or at a substituted ball brought into play, the player
shall incur
the penalty
of
one stroke
and shall then
play his own ball. If the mistake be not discovered
until after the opponent has played his next stroke,
the player shall
lose the hole.
(b)
If the player play a stroke or strokes with the ball of
anyone not engaged
in
the match and the opponent
then play the player's ball, there shall be
no penalty.
The player shall place a ball as near as possible to
where his original ball lay and in a similar lie : the
opponent shall. play his own ball.
Penalty for breach
of
Rule
20, 1
(i)
and (ii)—Loss of Hole.
2.
Stroke Play
(i)
Playing Fellow- Competitor's or Another Ball
(a)
Except in a hazard, if a competitor play a stroke or
strokes with his fellow-competitor's or any ball other
than his own, he shall incur
the penalty of one stroke.
He shall then play his own ball.
(b)
In a hazard, if a competitor play a stroke or strokes
with his fellow-competitor's or ball other than his
own, he shall incur
no penalty
provided the mistake
be discovered before a stroke is made at the ball from
outside the limits of the hazard, and the competitor
then plays his own ball.
(c) Provided the competitor has not made a stroke on
the next teeing ground or, in the case
of
the last hole
of the round, has not left the putting green, he may,.
if
he discover he has holed out with a wrong, ball,
rectify his mistake by finding and holing out with his
own ball,
adding a penalty stroke
to his score for the
hole.
(ii)
Fellow- Competitor's Ball Replaced
If the fellow-competitor's ball be played by the competitor, the
fellow-competitor. shall,
without penalty,
place a ball as near as
possible to where his ball lay and in a lie similar to that which the
original occupied.
Penalty for breach of Rule
20,
2
(i) and
(ii)—
Disqualification.