Lost and Found

[Capella]

We have a lost and found basket at the entrance to our caddie room. Despite a few people treating it more as a freebie-disperser ("Oh, look, I always wanted a Mizuno wedge"), it normally does serve it's purpose of reuniting golfers with their lost gear. But it never ceases to amaze me, what people leave behind during a round. Golf clubs I understand. I guess everyone has left a club behind at a green at some point. Headcovers are very common as well. But at the moment there is a pair of golf shoes in it (and has been for a couple of weeks now) and, even more amazing, a trolley front wheel. How on earth do you lose a trolley front wheel without noticing?

What are your most surpriing lost-and-found items?

 

[Green Bay Hacker]

My game is often lost on the course and very rarely found in time to save the round.

 

[Imurg]

In the waste bin by the 5th tee at my old place, about 3/4 mile from the clubhouse, I found an empty Callaway shoe box.......
Did someone really carry a box of shoes that far and then put them on..?

 

[patricks148]

I handed in a 7 iron and PW i found in the gorse the other week. both are still there

 

[Face breaker]

Found a 60* mizuno wedge out on the course which I put in the pro-shop, was there for about a month (maybe even 6 weeks) without so much as a sniff, it now resides in my bag...

Also found a 52* Nike wedge sticking out of a bin once, a closer inspection revealed the head had come unstuck (twisted) it now resides in my 'backup clubs' bag...

We get quite a lot of holiday trade... :thup:

 

[jim8flog]

There is pair of golf shoes in our changing room that have been there for 5 years.

We used to have a monthly bin system with 4 bins at the end of 3 months whatever was in bin 1 went in to the skip at the end of 4 months everything in bin 2 went in to the skip and so on.

Losing ordinary prescription glasses seems to be quite commonplace. I can never work out why they are not quickly claimed.

 

[Robster59]

We have a corner of the locker room where people put lost/found clubs. Nothing much of any value seems to reside there.
We got fed up of some of the stuff people left behind in the locker room (mainly shoes but also items of clothing). In the end I suggested an annual clearout. We give our members a good couple of months notice and put paper notices in shoes left in the shoe slots. It's amazing how much stuff is chucked out. But at least the locker room looks a lot tidier afterwards.

 

[chrisd]

Losing ordinary prescription glasses seems to be quite commonplace. I can never work out why they are not quickly claimed.

Maybe their owners can't see them as they've mislaid their glasses 🤣

 

[Capella]

Well, the trolley wheel seems to be reunited with its owner. At least it was gone when I checked last night.

 

[Deleted member 18645]

At my old club, someone put an ironing board out by the area on the 8th where the ladies stand whilst the men walk back to their tee with a comment of "someone left it here so we thought you might like to use it".

50% thought it was hilarious, 50% got the hump. The culprit was never found.

 

[PaulyMcK]

I lost an expensive pair of Sunglasses on the 2nd Tee of my previous club, realised on the fourth and went back round after finishing the 9 holes, not found or handed in to the clubhouse.

I also lost a Fazer Wedge on the 9th Green, it was never handed in either.

 

[Orikoru]

I remember once when I was a kid playing with my dad, I accidentally left a pitching wedge next to the green and walked off. Two holes later when I realised, I went running all the way back to the green where I thought I'd left it, couldn't see it anywhere. Came back with the right hump - and it was then that my dad looked in his bag and went "oh yeah! I picked that up in put it in my bag mistake.." Haha. Part relief and part thinking my old man's an idiot.

 

[Tashyboy]

Found a slazenger 7 iron at the back of our 18th. Knew who it belonged to as we let there two ball tee off before us four. I gave it to him at the 19th and he said " am always doin that". I told him to put his club down with the flag when he puts said flag on the floor. When flag is picked up so is club. 👍

 

[Orikoru]

Found a slazenger 7 iron at the back of our 18th. Knew who it belonged to as we let there two ball tee off before us four. I gave it to him at the 19th and he said " am always doin that". I told him to put his club down with the flag when he puts said flag on the floor. When flag is picked up so is club. 

Yeah I do that as well! Or alternatively, if you leave in on the edge make sure it's exactly in a straight line between the hole and where you left your bag, so you'd have to walk directly over it and it can't be missed.

 

[Robster59]

Theirs loads of spectacles left behind at our club. Some seem to be prescription, some are just cheap readers.
Loads of head covers get left as well but I noticed tonight somebody had put a pair of shoes into the lost property.
Funnily enough, nobody ever puts any Pro V1's they find on the course in there.

 

[dufferman]

I once left a wedge next to the 4th green of my old club. I remembered on the 7th green. Which was 2 par 4's and a par 5 away from the 4th green. It was one evening and I was playing alone on a pretty empty course, so I left my trolley on the 7th tee and ran all the way back... the group behind me were on the 4th green and hadn't even noticed it sitting by a bunker.

I was so knackered after my little jog I went home afterwards. That's possibly the most exercise I've done in the last 10 years.

 

[Coffey]

I left a wedge of mine on the side of a green while I was playing away once. It just so happened to be up the biggest hill on the course on one of the hottest days of the year. Had to run back up the hill and back down again. Never ever left anything again and always have the fear when I look in my bag and don't see the club immediately! It is always hiding in those dreadful new styled head covers.

 

[Orikoru]

I left a wedge of mine on the side of a green while I was playing away once. It just so happened to be up the biggest hill on the course on one of the hottest days of the year. Had to run back up the hill and back down again. Never ever left anything again and always have the fear when I look in my bag and don't see the club immediately! It is always hiding in those dreadful new styled head covers.

Yeah, my hybrid cover is crap for that. It doesn't hug the shaft it sort of fans out, so at least twice a round there will be a moment where an iron is hiding under it and I have the moment of panic.

 

[dewsweeper]

A playing partner of mine realised he had lost his sandwedge two days later.
A week after that I found it in my bag.

 

[williamalex1]

On a golfing week in Majorca , a guys case went missing on route to the hotel . After about 5 days of having to borrow clothes, his case mysteriously turned up in the corner of his mates apartment, a couple of doors away .
He wasn't a happy bunny , he suspected his case might have been laying there all the time :rofl: