On May 12th 1957, Jimmy Demaret captured the Arlington Hotel Open, his third victory of the season and the last of 31 career wins. Largely a forgotten figure of golf, Demaret won the US Masters on three occasions and had a close relationship with Ben Hogan. They often played together in fourball events and Demaret wrote the book My Partner Ben Hogan after the Hawk had almost been killed in a car crash in 1949.
TEASER: A player searches for his ball for five minutes and does not find it. He continues to search, finds his ball and plays it. What is the ruling?
ANSWER: The ball was lost and therefore out of play when the five-minute period allowed for search expired. When the player played a stroke with the ball out of play, he played a wrong ball and incurred a penalty of loss of hole in matchplay or two strokes in strokeplay (Rule 15-2 and -3). In strokeplay, he was disqualified if he did not correct the error by proceeding under Rule 27-1 before playing from the next tee.
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