Actually many people have misunderstood or not quite grasped the proper way to use past participle, and you often see people combining past participle with "is" or "be"...

The proper use is preceded with "has" or "have" and it is most commonly used to describe something or action that one has begun in the past and still continuing in the present.

For example, I've played tennis since I was 10 years old.

Right
the phrase... "the ball cannot be found in the fairway" is correct
also the use of past participle as an adjective is also common,
I'm referring to some common wrong usage such as "the shop be opened for general public"