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Originally Posted by coralpro
If a person somehow was to make a stroke on the provisional before the ball was found then he would be permitted to do so. Wouldn't he?
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Yes but the original ball is still in play until he "makes a stroke with the provisional ball from the place where the original ball is likely to be or from a point nearer the hole than that place..."
Merely playing the provisional is not enough to make it the ball in play. You must play it at or beyond the spot where the original is likely to be. If he plays the provisional from a spot before where the original is likely to be, and then the original is found within five minutes, the original is the ball in play.