Tadashi70
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I asked the question for my father because he wasn't clear if a ball was in play if it didn't leave the tee. We established that it is and you play it as it lies.
My point was that there is nothing complicated about what to do when the ball is in play. All you have to know is that once you make a stroke intending to hit the ball, it is in play. You treat it no differently than you would if it was in the fairway. I don't think that a ruling gets much simpler than that - it's Golf 101. Anyone who plays the game even semi-seriously should know what a ball in play is and what can and cannot be done with it.
On that decision that I was wrong on, we had diverged from the original question. As with most rules situations, it only gets complicated after you screw up and fail to follow a procedure by the rules. Knowing the basic on course procedures keeps most players from ever being involved in those more complex situations.