7.2
How to Identify Ball

A player’s ball at rest may be identified in any one of these ways:

By the player or anyone else seeing a ball come to rest in circumstances where it is known to be the player’s ball.

By seeing the player’s identifying mark on the ball (see Rule 6.3a).

By finding a ball with the same brand, model, number and condition as the player’s ball in an area where the player’s ball is expected to be (but this does not apply if an identical ball is in the same area and there is no way to know which one is the player’s ball).

If a player’s provisional ball cannot be distinguished from his or her original ball, see Rule 18.3c(2).