how much effort would you take to get your ball back??

[patricks148]

Playing in Super Sunday of the Moray and Nairn Handicap league, two up and on the 5th Tee my oppo gets a shot. I carved on off onto the beach.

The tide was coming in so when i got down there the ball was already in a foot of water, so just took my shoes and socks off (wearing shorts as usual) paddled in and got it. It was a brand new Prov 1

So how far have you gone to get a ball back?

 

[USER1999]

Probably a good couple of feet off the fairway.

 

[Smiffy]

Probably a good couple of feet off the fairway.

Yeah but you're not Scottish Murph. There could be some right old distances posted up by those "North of the Border".

 

[patricks148]

Yeah but you're not Scottish Murph. There could be some right old distances posted up by those "North of the Border".

What like you at Boat of Garten

 

[pbrown7582]

Probably a good couple of feet off the fairway.

This.

 

[patricks148]

Probably a good couple of feet off the fairway.

thats a lie for a start, i was behind you a Goswick and you where at least 50 ft off every fairway

 

[HawkeyeMS]

If it was out of play then I wouldn't bother going to very much effort at all. I certainly wouldn't be retrieving one from the sea or climbing over OOB fences to search for one.

 

[North Mimms]

Playing in Super Sunday of the Moray and Nairn Handicap league, two up and on the 5th Tee my oppo gets a shot. I carved on off onto the beach.

The tide was coming in so when i got down there the ball was already in a foot of water, so just took my shoes and socks off (wearing shorts as usual) paddled in and got it. It was a brand new Prov 1

So how far have you gone to get a ball back?

Were you picking it up or playing it?

(and people say ball retrivers waste time...)

 

[HomerJSimpson]

If it was out of play then I wouldn't bother going to very much effort at all. I certainly wouldn't be retrieving one from the sea or climbing over OOB fences to search for one.

Hawkeye, you remember that ball you put OB on the 5th in the Longhurst on the Saturday. I did the same thing on the Sunday but as I couldn't find my ball and there was uncertainty that it was OB I rolled under the electric fence as there were two balls in the field. One was yours and the other was a Pro V so worth the effort. It meant mine wasn't OB as they were the only ones in there but never found the original. I suppose you'll be wanting that Bridgestone back now won't you

 

[CMAC]

Yeah but you're not Scottish Murph. There could be some right old distances posted up by those "North of the Border".

especially the Highlands

I heard a tale of a farmer being asked to hunt down a seagull with his shotgun that allegedly stole a locals brand new (just unwrapped on first tee so everyone saw it was new) Dunlop DDH

 

[brysoni23]

In a press up position over a very narrow but deep ditch.

Left leg, right leg on one side and right arm across the ditch with my left arm dangling into the ditch haha.

Me and my pal both hit brand new AD333's into the ditch, I managed to get both back

Now where was that damn ball retriever.

 

[BrizoH71]

Not overly far, but have wandered into the middle of a jaggy nettle thicket in order to retrieve a ball.

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Hawkeye, you remember that ball you put OB on the 5th in the Longhurst on the Saturday. I did the same thing on the Sunday but as I couldn't find my ball and there was uncertainty that it was OB I rolled under the electric fence as there were two balls in the field. One was yours and the other was a Pro V so worth the effort. It meant mine wasn't OB as they were the only ones in there but never found the original. I suppose you'll be wanting that Bridgestone back now won't you

I'd actually forgotten about that Homer but you can keep the ball, it's got a left to right bias on it which doesn't fit with my gentle draw

 

[williamalex1]

Playing in Super Sunday of the Moray and Nairn Handicap league, two up and on the 5th Tee my oppo gets a shot. I carved on off onto the beach.

The tide was coming in so when i got down there the ball was already in a foot of water, so just took my shoes and socks off (wearing shorts as usual) paddled in and got it. It was a brand new Prov 1

So how far have you gone to get a ball back?

When you entered the water did you hear the theme music from Jaws strike up and shouts of "shark in the water":ears:

 

[Shaunmg]

I have a very annoying playing partner in our clubs annual pairs match play knock out, both summer and winter.
I have never known anyone take so long looking for a lost ball. Twice in our last knock out, his ball was out of it and down to me to either win or half the hole. We were on the green putting and he was still looking for his ball in the dense rough half way down fairway.

He brags about never buying golf balls and just using balls of any description that he finds. He carries a ball retriever that I swear It must extend a short par three in length ( I don’t own one)

He winds me up so much with his ball searching, I am so glad we only play together in the pairs knockout. We teamed up a few years ago when we were both looking for partner. By the way he is also club thrower

 

[ManinBlack]

One of the people my late father played with was well known for his single minded approach to the game. One day, playing in a fourball, he lost his ball in the rough on the 4th. After all of them looking unsuccessfully for it for a while the other three proceeded to the green & played out, expecting him to join them - he didn't. They shrugged their shoulders & played on as a three ball. When they came to the 14th, which runs parallel to the 4th this guy was still searching. They played on past him & completed the round. Not sure whether the ball was found, it certainly wasn't for lack of trying.

 

[mchacker]

Spun one way right at the 16th at Castle Stuart last year and ended up finding it beside the 13th tee. If memory serves I made par.

This year at 14th pulled one over to the path by the main entrance for the Scottish Open, had to tiptoe over a lot of soggy marsh to get that one back, thankfully it was a provisional

 

[MadAdey]

Depends if I had my snorkelling gear on or not.

question should be at what point would I declare it unplayable if it was in the water. When we had the meet earlier in the year at Woodhall I was in the pond at the 16th on the Braken, it the last chance to get a 2, so I went in and tried hitting a ball that was a foot under water, didn't get it out and covered myself in crap.....

 

[HawkeyeMS]

Depends if I had my snorkelling gear on or not.

question should be at what point would I declare it unplayable if it was in the water. When we had the meet earlier in the year at Woodhall I was in the pond at the 16th on the Braken, it the last chance to get a 2, so I went in and tried hitting a ball that was a foot under water, didn't get it out and covered myself in crap.....

A ball lying a foot under water isn't a chance to make a 2. It's a chance to cover yourself in crap and give your mates a good laugh, which it sounds like you succeeded in doing :thup:

 

[Slab]

Just in terms of effort I'd say when we play a fun team format of alternate yellow ball (scoring double) is certainly when the most effort is put into finding it

When its lost so is the ability to score double points for the remainder of the round