Starting Play Outside the Teeing Ground

[DavidHayes]

Phil, our reason for the change to the match play penalty was to remove the 'recalled stroke' aspect of the rules. That change does, coincidentally, align play from outside the teeing ground with play from a wrong place in match play.

If play from outside the teeing ground were treated as a 'wrong place situation' in stroke play I think we would see a large increase of situations similar to Decision 20-7c/2 i.e., "corrections" that should not have been made (and probably score card errors as a result).

Your suggested treatment is certainly a reasonable one.