Lost ball "sportsmanship"

[backwoodsman]

So, you're in a match. And for now, how well you're doing is irrelevant, but how hard do you look for your opponents ball? Ok, you watch the direction of the shot so you know where its heading - it's poor form not to. But if it's in the clag, how hard do you actually look when you're there? Is it a point of honour to find it? Or do you wander about a bit swishing at the long grass without really bothering. Is it incumbent on you to really try, or is it your good fortune that they played a crappy shot?

 

[Andy]

Wrong that you even asked the question.

You look for it as if it was your own ball.

 

[Marshy77]

Stand on it and walk away.

 

[leaney]

I'll have help have a look for it for a minute or two and then will suggest that he carries on with a 2 shot penalty.

I look for his, just as hard as I look for mine.

 

[leaney]

Stand on it and walk away.

ha ha ha ha

 

[BeachGolfer]

Look for it as realistically as you would you own meaning if just off the fairway in to semi long stuff and you should / could find the usual five minutes. If its off in the woods and clattered off lumber three or four times, a walk through and carry on +1 to the good.

 

[BTatHome]

Sometimes it can be much better to find a ball when it's in the bad stuff. Not being able to get out and making an even bigger mess of it can be good for you and bad for their head

 

[DaveM]

Will look the full 5mins as if it was mine. As I would expect the same in return.

 

[Imurg]

Sometimes it can be much better to find a ball when it's in the bad stuff. Not being able to get out and making an even bigger mess of it can be good for you and bad for their head

Agreed.
Find it buried knee deep in the bundu and watch them struggle to get it out.

Maybe a quick "mind that bundu over there" on the next tee wouldn't hurt....

 

[Philm]

ha ha ha ha

matchplay, i make sure he notices how little attention i am paying to the ground as i swish my club aimlessly through grass so long that you could hide a jeep ,calf, 6pigs and 3 chickens in it.

but im a balloon who rarely looks for his own ball in the clag.

Phil

 

[Hobbit]

When you beat him do you want to be thinking, "well I won fair and square," or "I won but maybe I should have looked..."?

And equally, do you want him telling other members in the club that "you won but...."

I know which I prefer but each to there own.

 

[backwoodsman]

Suppose it goes to show what an honest, sporting bunch we generally are. I'd certainly look as if it were mine, but I've played the occasional bod who hasn't really helped - and once with someone who, although they didn't quite say it, had a definite "s' your fault, s'up to you to find it" attitude

 

[beggsy]

I always look as if it's mine and found many that they would never have with looking in the wrong place but the minute they fart about trying to find mine I ain't interested in there's

 

[chrisd]

I would always look for an opponents ball as if it were my own ..... how could anyone not ?

 

[Brookesy]

Always look for it just as hard as i look for mine, id expect the same so its only fair.

Annoys the hell out of me when your playing against someone and they dont do it.

 

[garyinderry]

im like a wee jack russel. i have a knack for finding them. immediately mark it visually by tree, post, whatever it may be. i'm the eyes for one particular fellow i play with quite a lot of the time!

 

[mouth]

you can't really play on until he has, so no bones in helping them look for it. believe me my regular playing partner has found a lot more of mine than i have of his. it's almost as though i owe it to him.

 

[Davey247]

Always help out in medal like it was my own. Last 3 holes in a tight matchplay with my ball on the other side of the fairway...... maybe a different story

 

[Gazboy]

im like a wee jack russel. i have a knack for finding them. immediately mark it visually by tree, post, whatever it may be. i'm the eyes for one particular fellow i play with quite a lot of the time!

I've always wondered if the visually impaired were allowed to have a dog to track & locate their ball? It would be brilliant for golfers who had lost some or all of their sight or take up golf in the first place.

 

[pbrown7582]

I'll have help have a look for it for a minute or two and then will suggest that he carries on with a 2 shot penalty.

you maen takes the long trudging walk back to the tee unless he had sense to play a provsional.