ArnoldArmChewer
Tour Winner
Does he believe they are playing English or American sized balls ?
Most balls found in a round
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Does he believe they are playing English or American sized balls ?
I daren't ask. He is stuck in a bygone era and is always right. We had the lone golfer has no standing discussion last week for the umpteenth time. Pick any old rule or method of playing and he still thinks it is in play. Hard work.
jdpjamesp
Q-School Graduate
Yeah I found it odd too. The thing is, the hole had a reputation with the regulars as being a round breaker. I wonder if folks sliced it in there and couldn't be bothered looking? A lot of the rounds I played were in the winter too, where the undergrowth had died down a lot. It's a lot harder to find balls there in the summer.
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Deleted member 21258
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I reckon only 5 or 6 during the course of the round.
On holiday last year whilst staying at Henllys golf club I decided to take me, son and Grandad for a nice walk over to the 8th at Henllys, ball hunting. On this par 5 at driving distance the fairway is tight and trees either side(if you hit in there is almost was a lost ball during a round). We found 50-60 IIRC, some good and some cheapo balls. Was a fun time really, Grandad was useless finding balls, don't think he even found half a dozen of them!
On holiday last year whilst staying at Henllys golf club I decided to take me, son and Grandad for a nice walk over to the 8th at Henllys, ball hunting. On this par 5 at driving distance the fairway is tight and trees either side(if you hit in there is almost was a lost ball during a round). We found 50-60 IIRC, some good and some cheapo balls. Was a fun time really, Grandad was useless finding balls, don't think he even found half a dozen of them!
rosswilliams
Club Champion
4 or 5 on a course in Mauritius over the summer. Unfortunately they replaced some that i had lost previously that round, and the majority suffered the same fate anyway.
Tashyboy
Please don’t ask to see my tatts 👍
We were talking about all the balls we had found during our round yesterday. A few points were raised.
Of the 500 plus balls we found, if every ball was looked for, for the five mins allowed that is a lot of standing about on the course waiting.
If the grass had not been cut they would of been there for years and some of them probably had.
there is an area at the rhs of our 18th, Melly found about 15 balls in there. You would be gutted if you were on for a stonking round and lost your ball at the side of the 18th.
Of the 500 plus balls we found, if every ball was looked for, for the five mins allowed that is a lot of standing about on the course waiting.
If the grass had not been cut they would of been there for years and some of them probably had.
there is an area at the rhs of our 18th, Melly found about 15 balls in there. You would be gutted if you were on for a stonking round and lost your ball at the side of the 18th.
Monkey Putter
Hacker
Tashyboy
Please don’t ask to see my tatts 👍
Oops, Soz for bringing it up. Good to talk about it an all that. Problem shared etc. 😳😁👍
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
On a slight tangent - if you find a ball that has a member's name or mark you recognise on it - or it's a type of ball that is unusual and that you know of only a handful of members play - do you go to them and offer them their ball back?
I've come across people playing with my personally marked Vice balls that know me, so NO!
SwingsitlikeHogan
Major Champion
Me neither - in fact if I find balls lost by certain members I tend to belt them as far out of bounds as possible - cos it feels good
jdpjamesp
Q-School Graduate
I find I play better with certain peoples' balls than I do with my own. Explains why they're so much better than me...
I donate plenty so I feel no guilt when I find someone else's. That's how it works. Golfers are great recyclers
Leftie
Tour Winner
Come on Fish. That was (almost) the highlight of the day.
I found one of your very personally marked balls in the do-da at Gainsborough and kept it for a special occasion which just happened to be at the 36th hole at Cooden where you were in the group (about 1/2 hour) behind us.
Left it in the hole for you.
As you had absolutely no idea where your blind shot into the green had gone, it was some what amusing that you "found" your ball in the hole. Fair do's though, you didn't claim it as yours. Must have been something to do with Smiffy writing "KNOB" on it ????????
Superstriker
Medal Winner
57 nitros
Shooter McPowick
Head Pro
On our back 9 there's a few "hotspots" where I'll have a look for balls if I need some. I think it was somewhere around 48 or 49 balls, my bag was stuffed full. I'd say 15 ish were premiums like proV1, 20 odd were supersofts or ad333's and 15 crappy ones.
Farmergeddon
Assistant Pro
Playing at Ripon in my early days on the old 17th(now the 8th) I heeled my tee shot in to a small gypsum hole just off the tee on the left, the hole was full of bramble briar's, BUT coincidently I had in my bag a pair of gardening gloves (dont ask) I pulled 17 balls out of that hole (of various vintages) but never found mine!
