Every month former MGA Senior Director of Rules and Competitions Gene Westmoreland will answer one question posed by the readers of the MGA e-Revision Newsletter (click here to sign up). Gene recently received the following Rules question from a reader:

 

Q: On the par-three ninth hole of our course, a player in our group hit his tee shot into the left bunker where the sand was raked earlier in the morning. When he hit out of the bunker, there was another ball, unseen, under his. Both balls escaped the bunker, but neither made it onto the green. Is there a penalty for hitting another ball?

Gene responds:

This has actually happened before! See Decision15/2. There is no penalty because the player played his stroke at his own ball. He must play his ball from where ever it comes to rest.

 

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