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I was playing a social round at McCracken on Saturday with a few mates, hit a long 5 iron to the 18th green and I saw it go into the bunker. I could not find my ball until my mate started laughing and pointing at this hole with my ball in it. I think it was dug by a fox or something.

None of us knew the rules regarding the ball being buried so badly. Seeing as it was a social round I just picked it out and dropped it next to the hole (in the bunker not the cup!!) and took a penalty stroke. What is the correct thing to do? I am only just getting into serious golf so any help would be nice.

Anyone had something similar happen?

Cheers!