Mikey
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i read a while back that if someone looses a golf ball then that golf ball then becomes the property of the golf club.this is infact untrue it remains the property of its owner.
Lost balls
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Robobum
Money List Winner
Thanks Mikey 👍
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Cheers mate, I was losing sleep over that one.
Craigg
Q-School Graduate
The long winter nights must fly by in your house!
Mikey
Hacker
They do when I'm out collecting golf balls lolThe long winter nights must fly by in your house!
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You must be the guy with all my lost balls, can I have them back as a guy told me they are still mine
Mikey
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If there pro v then you've no chance lolYou must be the guy with all my lost balls, can I have them back as a guy told me they are still mine
snell
Journeyman Pro
I'd heard that once before too....if that's the case then I've donated many a golf ball to the course....and the river wear for that matter!
Mikey
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this is what I had read and was the reason for my post
[h=2]Re: Lost ball ownership rights[/h]
Read more at http://forums.golf-monthly.co.uk/sh...ll-ownership-rights/page3#gxWzPo28DzfmmzUH.99
[h=2]Re: Lost ball ownership rights[/h]
In answer to the OP, I think the question of who "owns" lost golf balls was clarified in a reasonably well publicised legal case a few years ago, when a couple of fellas visited a local course after closing with scuba gear and recovered hundreds of balls from a lake.
A prosecution followed, and whilst the defendants argued that lost balls weren't owned by anybody, the Courts decided that they were, in fact, owned by the golf club.
So whilst every right-minded club owner or pro will never bat an eyelid if you find a ProV in the rough (do ProV users go in the rough?), you are actually committing theft every time you pick one up and put it in your bag.
A prosecution followed, and whilst the defendants argued that lost balls weren't owned by anybody, the Courts decided that they were, in fact, owned by the golf club.
So whilst every right-minded club owner or pro will never bat an eyelid if you find a ProV in the rough (do ProV users go in the rough?), you are actually committing theft every time you pick one up and put it in your bag.
Read more at http://forums.golf-monthly.co.uk/sh...ll-ownership-rights/page3#gxWzPo28DzfmmzUH.99
Pin-seeker
Well-known member
Well the owner should be do done for littering.
BTatHome
Tour Winner
Hmmm, hardly a compelling argument you gave ... you basically just said "no it isn't" to something that was quite well stated (albeit many years ago when that thread was started).
Is that really the sum total of your statement?
.... first posts on a forum like this are usually the prelude to something else to follow, I can't believe I'm not the only one to think that this is a very strange entry into the golf monthly forum.
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So.......only balls in lakes during darkness belong to the club then?
Norrin Radd
Tour Winner
dont know about lost balls but im lost.
in the op he states that the lost ball still belongs to the golfer who lost it ,whilst in post #9 he gives another view ,that being that the golf club owns them .
is it just me ?
in the op he states that the lost ball still belongs to the golfer who lost it ,whilst in post #9 he gives another view ,that being that the golf club owns them .
is it just me ?
Mikey
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that wasn't my view in post 9,it was a post I read so wanted to clarify that balls lost wether it be in ponds etc are not the property of the golf club
Face breaker
Q-School Graduate
So if you pick up a lost ball, put it in your bag, then proceed too use it and then lose it again then at some point in time someone else then finds it is that classed as handling/passing on stolen goods. 🤔
in that case would the owners of the 500 odd balls in buckets on my patio please come and collect them!
