I was playing a Titleist with two red bars on it. I'm not sure what model of ball, something I found presumably. I hit it into the trees.
When I marked it on the green after hitting out of the trees, I noticed that it was now a Pinnacle with three red stripes on it. Ooops...
Rule 6.3c says that the penalty for playing the wrong ball is the general penalty (two strokes). But (and it's a big but), you have to correct the error before teeing off on the next hole, or it's a DQ. Correcting the error means finishing the hole with the correct ball.
The strokes I played with the wrong ball don't count. It's as if they never happened.
So the right thing to do would have been to go back to where I played my third shot from. I didn't see any other ball around, so I would have had to play my ball as a lost ball. So two strokes for the lost ball, two strokes for the wrong ball, and I'm laying 6, hitting 7 from ~125 yards out.
In my opinion, that's not really an option when there are groups playing behind you.
So I took a 9 (that's the max score for my club) and went on to the next hole. Perhaps I shouldn't have posted the score, but I did.
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