My Ball Gone! Penalty?

[Shanks A Million]

I played golf at a resort in Costa Rica once, and that kept happening, but in the fairway. My father would tee off, we would see the ball come to rest, and it would be gone when we got there. One time an iguana actually made off with my ball, but the other times it was just no where to be found. Plus, if you hit it into the trees you were in monkey territory.....

I've lost more than one ball in the fairway. It's funny, because it's a wide open course, and you would never expect to lose a ball there. There's water in play on all but 3 of the 27 holes on the course, and when you actually miss that water, you expect to be able to find your ball. But the place is like dismal swamp, and there's no hope of finding your ball even 2" off the fairway. But even on the fairway, it's not hard to lose balls. There's little depressions or animal holes or something.

The greens on that course are like fairways at lower end courses, and the fairways are like rough on nicer courses.

[Ignorant]

You curse your bad luck and either fudge the rules as described above, or go back and re-tee hitting 3. The rules don't make any exception for this, so you just have to

I wonder what You mean by that?

Rub of the Green A “rub of the green’’ occurs when a ball in motion is accidentally deflected or stopped by any outside agency (see Rule 19-1).

[RC]

Just remember, when hitting a provisional, announce beforehand that you are playing a provisional ball -- otherwise, your re-teed provisional ball is in play and you have hit your third shot, -- And your first ball is out of play, even if you find it.

[jetsknicks1]

I played golf at a resort in Costa Rica once, and that kept happening, but in the fairway. My father would tee off, we would see the ball come to rest, and it would be gone when we got there. One time an iguana actually made off with my ball, but the other times it was just no where to be found. Plus, if you hit it into the trees you were in monkey territory.....

Iguanas? Monkey territory? Damn dude, who's your playing partner, Indiana Jones? :)

[Shanks A Million]

I wonder what You mean by that?

Rub of the green = luck.