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Old 03-07-2008, 06:24 PM
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Re: Provisional Ball & going forward?

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Originally Posted by coralpro View Post
If one remembers the Big Break US vs Europe I believe it was Don Donatello that hit the shot that went into the edge of the gorse bushes and said he would hit a provisional and the provisional was a fantastic shot in a great place and while everybody started searching he saw what the lie area might be like and decided to play the provisional as his choice but some others on the Euro side found the ball up under a bush with his initials on it. He got mad and said he already declared it lost and they should have quit looking. Ruling was his ball was found within a part of the course not in a water hazard and it then became the ball in play and the provisional had to be picked up. He fumed for days afterwards.
Good ole don, his emotions prevent him from succeeding...if he is the tall darkheaded guy who has been on that show from the beginning...he is an emotional wreck.

And he does not know the rules apparently.
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