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Ball
If a player hits
his ball into the fairway of an adjacent hole and is then unable to find it, but
during his search he encounters other golfers playing that same hole in close
proximity to the place where he believes his own ball came to rest, he may assume
that one of them absconded with it, and he may drop another ball, without penalty,
even if he receives explicit assurances from one or more members of the suspect
playing group that they did not in fact pick up his ball, provided he can later
cite some evidence, no matter how flimsy, of incriminating behaviour on their
part, such as their failure to make eye contact, the preoccupied or reticent manner
in which they responded to inquiries, or their excessive eagerness to proceed
with their play, on which to base a reasonable presumption of their guilt
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