Definition: Wrong Place
Any place on the course other than where the player is required or allowed to play his or her ball under the Rules.Examples of playing from a wrong place are:
- Playing a ball after replacing it on the wrong spot or without replacing it when required by the Rules.
- Playing a dropped ball from outside the required relief area.
- Taking relief under a wrong Rule, so that the ball is dropped in and played from a place not allowed under the Rules.
- Playing a ball from a no play zone or when a no play zone interferes with the player's area of intended stance or swing.
- When a ball has been played from outside the teeing area in starting play of a hole or in trying to correct that mistake is not playing from a wrong place (see Rule 6.1b), or
- When a ball has been played from where it comes to rest after the player has failed to replay a stroke when required to do so.