A player is searching for her ball and it is located within the three minute search time. What if she cannot identify the ball within this time?The player is allowed a reasonable amount of time to reach the location where the ball was found and then is allowed up to a minute to identify the ball. For example, if she locates her ball at 2 minutes, 30 seconds, she has until 3 minutes, 30 seconds to identify the ball. If the ball is not hers, she has no search time left. In a second instance, if another person locates the ball near the end of the three minutes and she is some distance away, she is given a reasonable amount of time to reach the ball and then up to 60 seconds to identify it as hers. (Clarification 18.2a(1)/3) |
