Who goes first when 2 balls collide and have to be played by the same place?

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Strange, but true: I knocked on an approach at 10 meters, but before I could get up in green to mark my ball, my companion exploded from a Greenside bunker. As a suggested ball at a pool table, his golf ball struck the mine so much that it immediately came to a dead stop in the exact place, where mine, knocked a few meters away, had just been. I know I had to replace my ball where it had been … that was the place occupied by the ball of my game partner. So who goes first? Should anyone choose from us? Flip coin? – Sildon Ieric, Arlington, VA

So two questions here: what to do with the ball replacement, and who goes first.

Rule 15.3 deals with golf intervention balls; Basically, the two options to continue are (1) for a player to mark their ball, then include their ball marker and replace your, or (2) wait and let the other player go first and then replace your ball.

If you choose option one and do not want to allow the other player to go first, as the balls are at the same distance from the 6.4 hole rule says to use a random method, ie, yes, roll a coin. Then make the ball marker dance to get out of the other player’s path and continue with the order to determine the coins.

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My car rolled off the right road over a paved, paved trail – and then continued to roll back on the path at least 100 meters towards the Tee box. I was told that I could put the ball back on the right road at the point when it spinned on the carriage trail without a penalty. Is this correct? —Wolf Dorak, Ontario, Canada

The wolf, the Guy rules are screaming with laughter – whoever told you should be kicked in the curves.

There is no such arrangement, whether the ball attracted a yard or 100 yards. See regulation 16.1 regarding how to get relief from a carriage trail.

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