How Many Strokes?

Chas hits his Par-3 tee shot into thick rough and then decelerates on the tricky chip shot, hitting his ball twice and leaving it in the rough. This time he practices his intended chip shot at the side of the ball hitting the top of a hidden ball lying in the rough. When he does strike his own ball it is a good one, coming to rest on the putting green twenty feet from the hole. He flattens a heel mark on his line of putt and holes out the long putt. What is Chas's score for the hole?
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A player may ask anyone the distance from any point A to any point B. Definition of Advice.

Information on distance is not advice.
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Answer:
Chas scores 7 for the hole.
1 - Tee shot.
2 & 3 - First chip and one penalty stroke for the double hit (Rule 14-4).
4 - Second chip onto the putting green. Note: There is no penalty for accidentally hitting a concealed ball (Decision 7-2/7).
5 & 6 -Two penalty strokes for repairing damage to the putting green that was not an old hole plug or caused by the impact of a ball (Rule 16-1c).
7 - Long putt into the hole.

Question:

After two strokes on a Par-5 Gary's ball lies two inches outside of a yellow line defining a water hazard. In making his stroke, with part of his stance inside the hazard, he grounds his club inside the hazard. He also moves a loose palm frond in the hazard as he starts his backswing. The stroke is sliced and his ball comes to rest underneath branches of a bush. Because the ground is wet he takes his wet suit trousers from his bag folds them and kneels on them to make his stroke. He advances his ball down the fairway and takes another three strokes to hole out. What is Gary's score for the hole?
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Answer:
Gary scores 9 for the hole.
1 & 2 - Two strokes to just outside the margin of the water hazard.
Note: There is no penalty for grounding his club or touching the loose impediment on his backswing as his ball did not lie within the margin of the water hazard.
3 - Sliced stroke to the bush.
4 & 5 - Two penalty strokes for building a stance (Decision 13-3/2).
6 - Ball advanced down the fairway.
7 to 9 - Two strokes to hole out.