Ok! Gimme my ball back!

[Imurg]

Went out at 7 today to beat the weather and to get finished before work..
Par 3 3rd hole, drive ends up on the front of the green.
Walking up and, from nowhere, a huge Red Kite swoops down and scoops my ball up and flies away with it to calls of "I hope you choke on it"...

What beasties have run off with your ball...?

 

[Slab]

First time my ball suffered this fate was crows and I lost several to them & once to a seagull

Most recent was a troop of monkeys last year and one of them nicked the ball from just behind the green on a Par 3 and they all legged it into the trees (had to chase them again only last weekend to prevent a similar fate)


Edit: naff picture as we were moving but this guy got chased off on Saturday with his mates following but they just headed straight for the green after 2nd shot to try and get them there!

 

[Imurg]

First time my ball suffered this fate was crows and I lost several to them & once to a seagull

Most recent was a troop of monkeys last year and one of them nicked the ball from just behind the green on a Par 3 and they all legged it into the trees (had to chase them again only last weekend to prevent a similar fate)

Monkeys - not bad but I was hoping for something a bit more exotic from you..😁

 

[anotherdouble]

Went out at 7 today to beat the weather and to get finished before work..
Par 3 3rd hole, drive ends up on the front of the green.
Walking up and, from nowhere, a huge Red Kite swoops down and scoops my ball up and flies away with it to calls of "I hope you choke on it"...

What beasties have run off with your ball...?

Bet it was quite spectacular to see though

 

[Slab]

Monkeys - not bad but I was hoping for something a bit more exotic from you..😁

Well one time this Puerto Rican lass....


Nah not really, monkeys are about as exotic as it gets, although I did see a dodo-like beastie a month or so back!

 

[USER1999]

Just dogs and crows for me.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Another crow for me. Not that exciting I'm afraid although it was quite funny to see it happen in front of your own eyes.

 

[Capella]

Dogs, twice. One time it was on our home course. There is a public footpath running alongside the 3rd and 4th hole and when I hit my drive on the fourth, a huge black dog (some German shepherd mix) came galloping out of nowhere, grabbed my ball and started to run away with it. I yelled at it as loud as I could and to my utter surprise it turned around and dropped the ball almost exactly in the place where it had picked it up. It was really funny. By that time the owner of the dog had caught up and put a leash on it.

The other one was in Spain last year. There was a pack of semi-wild dogs roaming the golf course and those devious fellows just loved to pick balls up and run away with them.

Oh, and last year my ball got almost stolen by a turtle. Also on my home course. Don't know if it already would have headed off with it. But it waddled towards my ball as fast as turtles can waddle, it's little neck getting longer and longer. I guess it must have thought it was an egg or something. Still, I beat it to it (yes, I can outrun a turtle).

 

[rksquire]

A high handicapper beastie with his shirt untucked once walked of with my ball after a drive to the wrong fairway!

 

[Captainron]

Monkeys have had my ball a few times in South Africa.

 

[bernix]

we have hundreds of ground squirrels at our golf course. the offspring sometimes gather balls into their ground holes

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Dogs are as exciting as I get. I did top a pitch from heavy rough down a rabbit hole and spent a few minutes with various clubs trying to retrieve it.

 

[londonlewis]

A dog.
Playing at Southwold and a dog picked up and ran off with my ball. It's owners were stood next to it when it did it too and didn't say anything.

Walkers have right of way at Southwold, which some have taken to mean they own the place!

Fortunately it was just a friendly game with two mates.

 

[srixon 1]

Sea gulls and crows here. Only on the 1st four holes though Lost a brand new Pro V1 a couple of years ago on the second hole to crows. Ball had only been hit 5 times and 2 of those were putts. 2 holes later and I lost another one to another crow. Only seems to happen if you have hit the fairway.

 

[need_my_wedge]

Played a local muni late one summer evening, had tagged up with another chap playing on his own for the last few holes. Playing up the 9th, we'd both hit solid drives up the middle, walking towards our balls, a crow swoops in and takes his ball, before he can stop complaining, it swoops back in and takes mine too...... We dropped two new balls finished the hole and decided there was enough light left to play 1 and 9 again. Both drove down the first where a crow promptly swoops down and takes his ball again :whoo:

 

[Break90]

For a few weeks, feral children who lived in an illegal temporary outcrop of houses on wheels near a course I used to play in my youth. Always on the same hole, got to the stage where the worst ball in the bag was subbed in for that hole to minimise the loss.

Lasted for a few weeks then they thankfully moved on, leaving an ungodly amount of detritus behind, including a big pile of stolen golf balls.

 

[Dellboy]

Had my ball taken a few times by Badgers at Salisbury and also at my other club Rushmore, have a Buzzard fly down and sit next to my pp ball, never touched it but made some very weird noise when we tried to get near it and he/her spread his/her wings out to cover it, it was a big bugger as well !!

 

[patricks148]

A yank tried to on the 2nd hole last year, he was playing the 16th


My dogs have both had balls while ive been playing before and a Gull.

there are a couple of crows that have started taking balls off the 18th green this winter, but not had one of mine

 

[williamalex1]

There was a few foxes at Crowood GC that would steal balls, not a bit scared because golfers fed them regularly.

 

[Tashyboy]

pp was telling me yesterday, he went for a walk with grandson last week in Wollaton Park. lovely course there that is riddled with Deer. Anyway, he was walking down the side of the course and four guys smashed there balls down the middle. Got about hundred yards from the first ball and a crow picked up one of there balls flew about 50 yd and dropped it OOB.He and the four guys were laughing. Crow promptly picks ball up again and landed near PP. Guy shouts " get me ball". PP walked a Couple of steps and crow flys off minus ball. PP hands it back and says Oi, that was OOB". Guy says " not bloody likely". They had a good laugh about it.