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Rule 27: Ball Lost or Out of Bounds; Provisional Ball

During my last tournament, I played my tee shot into the fescue right of the fairway. After searching for a minute, I gave up and went back to the tee. I had teed up another ball for my next shot when my fellow competitors yelled they found my ball. Since the original ball have been found within the five minute search period, my fellow competitors said I was allowed to proceed with that ball. Is this the correct procedure even though I already teed up another ball? Would it have been different if I did not tee up the ball?