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Can you change your ball at any time during the play of a hole?
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Generally, you aren’t permitted to change your ball at any time during the play of a hole, but there are situations when you can change your ball.
The situations where you can change your ball during play of the hole are:
If you are taking free relief from an abnormal course condition, such as temporary water, a cart path, or a sprinkler head, then you may change your ball when dropping/placing a ball.
When your ball is at rest on top of a movable obstruction, and you choose to take free relief.
When play has been suspended and then resumed.
If you are taking penalty relief for an unplayable ball, or stroke-and-distance relief when you have lost your ball or hit it out-of-bounds.
Generally, you are not permitted to change your ball after you have marked and lifted it, however the following situations do allow you to change your ball in this situation:
When your ball is unable to be easily retrieved, and is not as of a result of a deliberate act by the player to ‘lose it’.
The original ball was stolen, or played by another player.
The original ball is cut and/or cracked.
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