159 RULE Purpose of Rule: 18.1 Relief Under Penalty of Stroke and Distance Allowed at Any Time At any time, a player may take stroke-and-distance relief by adding one penalty stroke and playing the original ball or another ball from where the previous stroke was made (see Rule 14.6). The player always has this stroke-and-distance relief option: • No matter where the player’s ball is on the course, and • Even when a Rule requires the player to take relief in a certain way or to play a ball from a certain place. Once the player puts another ball in play under penalty of stroke and distance (see Rule 14.4): • The original ball is no longer in play and must not be played. • This is true even if the original ball is then found on the course before the end of the three-minute search time (see Rule 6.3b). But this does not apply to a ball to be played from where the previous stroke was made when the player: • Announces that they are playing a provisional ball (see Rule 18.3b), or • Is playing a second ball in stroke play under Rule 14.7b or 20.1c(3). Rule 18 covers taking relief under penalty of stroke and distance. When a ball is lost outside a penalty area or comes to rest out of bounds, the required progression of playing from the teeing area to the hole is broken; the player must resume that progression by playing again from where the previous stroke was made. This Rule also covers how and when a provisional ball may be played to save time when the ball in play might have gone out of bounds or be lost outside a penalty area. Stroke-and-Distance Relief; Ball Lost or Out of Bounds; Provisional Ball 18 Rule 18
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