In 2019, if a player’s ball at rest might have moved, new Rule 9.2 will introduce the “known or virtually certain” standard. This means that something is at least 95% likely and it will apply to all questions of fact when deciding:
– whether a ball at rest has moved, and
– what caused a ball at rest to move
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