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Apologies, I know we have covered this topic before but went as far back as 2019 without success. Also a struggle to give it a subject title

In stroke play,  a player playes hit tee shot toward heavy rough/bushes. He sees a ball under a bush and assumes it is his ball from the tee. He declares it unplayable and drops a ball laterally under 19.2c 

Please advise on the following two scenarios:-
1]   The player retrieves the ball from under the bush, puts in in his pocket and continues with the dropped ball.  Only discovers the ball in his pocket is not his original when he gets to the next tee.
2]  The player retrives the ball from under the bush and sees it is not the original ball. He finds his original ball 10m further on [within search time] and abandons the dropped ball and continues with the original.

statistics: Posted by MikeH — 47 minutes ago

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