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Rules 101 with Andrew Greenfield
Andrew Greenfield

Welcome to Rules 101! This page will give you a chance to test your Rules knowledge and bone up
on the need-to-know Rules of Golf. E-mail AJGA Director of Education Andrew Greenfield with any questions.

Rule 27: Ball Lost of Out of Bounds; Provisional Ball
Rule 28: Ball Unplayable
While playing golf with my family on vacation last week we came across a situation that I could not explain. My dad hit his tee shot towards the left trees. He announced he was going to play a provisional and hit his next tee shot in the fairway. We all went into the trees to look for the ball and after about two minutes of searching we found it in the middle of a thorn bush. My dad wanted to take an unplayable and play his provisional ball under a one stroke penalty. Can he do this?