Finding ball in the hole but after the 3 minute search

[chico]

Before we had a perimeter fence around our 17th down hill par 3 , over tall trees, a partially blind tee shot .
The odd local comedian ned would retrieve a ball from OOB and put it in the hole, while the players were un-sighted walking down from the tee...
If I had only thought to ask one of my nephews, I'm sure I could've had my Hole in one a lot sooner DOH!

We would do this at the 8th at Knights Wood when I was young. If it was on the green one of us would jump over the burn and pop it in the hole. We never let on, just done it to see people celebrating.