Most balls lost in a round?

[vkurup]

Played a quick fire early morning round. The idea was not to spend more than a minute foraging in the cabbage. Was not really a bright idea as I was lighter by about six balls!!

However that is not the most balls lost by me in one round. When I just started playing golf, I paid a visit to Pyford GC - where 17 holes have water. I think me and my PP ran thru a dozen each on the front nine. We bought another dozen each at the turn, which we promptly lost before the end of the round!! Was a very expensive round.

Anyone on the forum to beat that...

 

[anotherdouble]

Can't beat that but have lost 7 or 8.

 

[MattVSTS]

I lost eight balls once...roughly a month ago but just two today, which is a great improvement

 

[williamalex1]

Can't beat that total, but I did lose 3 at the first hole playing an away open recently

 

[mcbroon]

Can't beat that total, but I did lose 3 at the first hole playing an away open recently

Don't know what my highest total is for a full round but I too have lost 3 balls on the opening hole.

 

[ColchesterFC]

Played with my neighbour and his son last week. The son lost 15 balls during the round. On the 5th hole he hit a decent drive and then put 3 out of bounds with his 2nd, 4th and 6th shots. Walking to the 6th tee he said "Well at least it can't get any worse". By the time he was 7 off the tee on that hole he was verging on a complete breakdown.

 

[Thexindi]

My record is.... but I must say I wasn't playing the game long when I lost 8 in one round.

Alot of balls

 

[Khamelion]

Played at Woodhall Spa two weeks ago and went through around 20 balls, lost a couple on the Bracken on the Saturday, but on a windy Sunday on the Hotchkin went through the 14 I had in my bag plus the half dozen I found and a couple that Kraxx passed over. I did make up for it slightly by finding 5 on the 18th.

 

[USER1999]

14 for me, a long time ago, at Braid Hills in Edinburgh. Shot 4 under my handicap the first day, and thought if I went back there, knowing the layout, I'd shoot the lights out of it.

Yeah, right!

 

[North Mimms]

How funny. I opened thread to comment only to find that your ball eating course was the same as mine.
Pyrford is a black hole for balls. I lost 8 in one round without going OOB including 3 on the last hole.
I'm sure local dog walkers all have ball retrievers and never buy golf balls

 

[Roops]

Pyrford sounds like Thorpeness, one bad bounce off the fairway, lost ball, go long over the green, lost ball. We played there for 3 days a couple of weeks ago, first day was very windy and even single figure handicappers were struggling for 30 points. I lost a hatfull but found probably the same amount.....we used to do a sweep for the number of lost balls for 20 players over 3 days, I think it was somewhere between 90 and 100.........

 

[vkurup]

How funny. I opened thread to comment only to find that your ball eating course was the same as mine.
Pyrford is a black hole for balls. I lost 8 in one round without going OOB including 3 on the last hole.
I'm sure local dog walkers all have ball retrievers and never buy golf balls

+1 :swing:

 

[Backache]

I cannot remember the most I have lost, must be loads though. I had a lesson a couple of weeks back and went out afterwards playing 10 holes and promptly lost 7 balls having previously been relatively straight but very short.

I once played a course in asia where there were signs warning you about cobras in the rough, it put most people off looking for balls but I managed to end up considerably up in balls by going in and hunting them down on a day when I was pretty wayward.

 

[Paul77]

On an adventure round in my first few days of my course I lost 16 balls. I was trying to be that long ball hitter with driver off nearly every hole apart from par 3's. Sometimes I'd loose a ball going too long on some holes and we have long whispy grass so it's a goner if you go anywhere near it.

Gladly playing three times a week have taught me where to go and where not to. I can get around with the same ball now. (mostly)

 

[Slime]

How funny. I opened thread to comment only to find that your ball eating course was the same as mine.
Pyrford is a black hole for balls. I lost 8 in one round without going OOB including 3 on the last hole.
I'm sure local dog walkers all have ball retrievers and never buy golf balls

My dear old dad used to be a member at Pyrford and I've played there many times ........................ it absolutely eats golf balls if you're not playing well, particularly when it's windy!
However, has anyone played on a windy day at Monte Mayor!!
It makes Pyrford look like a pitch & putt.
I don't know how many balls I lost there, I can't count that high!

Slime.

 

[Dan2501]

I must have lost 5 or 6 at Golf De Reims in France. Played poorly, and the thick tree and bush-lined fairways didn't help.

 

[tugglesf239]

I stopped counting the amount i lost up at Pleasington with Qwerty and Bluewolf a few weeks back. It was depressingly comical.

I was hemorrhaging into the clag in all directions. Dont think i found one ball that skipped into even the lightest rough.

guessing maybe 10+ easy

 

[garyinderry]

Lost a load at loch Erne recently. Pushed two into the lake off the first tee and it didn't get much better after than.

Never found a freedom in my swing all day. Tried to steer the ball around and it just went from bad to worse.

8 or 9 at a guess

 

[Foliage Finder]

Lost a dozen on my first round at Walmersley! All off the tee. My bad shot tends to be topping it, and there are a lot of tee boxes where there is 20-40 yards of thick moorland knee deep rough before you reach a sensible first cut or fairway. Which is a bad shot magnet for me! Especially on a nervy first round when you don't know the course.

So frustrating when you top a ball, see the precise landing spot less than 50 yards away, yet still lose the ball. Actually came away with a net gain on Monday though, so it does get better (lost 2 found 4!).

 

[huds1475]

9 brand new AD333's in last August's hurricane around Silloth. Some extravagantly 'shaped' shots that not even the pros could pull off! !

We called it after 14 holes so not even a full round. Good job they were freebies!