Remembering to check your ball thoroughly

[jim8flog]

Playing a practice 18 on the 9 hole course with 2 balls, failed to clear the old railway line with my shot and watched the ball roll down the embankment and finish in a particular spot.
Climbed up a little bit saw a Titleist with black dots exactly where I saw my ball go, got it down with a wedge an popped it to my pocket.

On the next tee pulled it to tee and realised it was not my ball wrong type of Titleist. 2nd time around a quick check and there was my ball just a little bit lower down.

 

[patricks148]

Not an issue I use a srixon in winter?

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I do that every morning ?

 

[Foxholer]

I do that every morning ?

Better than the several I was considering!

@OP. Many thanks for 'intellectual' challenge!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Think a lot of us will have played the wrong ball at one time or another. A PP played mine by mistake in the roll up the other week and I've done it in a competition.

 

[Oddsocks]

What titleist was it? Risky skidding down banks towards train lines for an old dt solo

 

[Orikoru]

It is a bit ridiculous how many people put 1 or 2 black dots on a Titleist 1 and think that's a unique marking. I have a purple Sharpie in my bag and draw an O on my ball. Not so many purple O's around.

 

[theoneandonly]

It is a bit ridiculous how many people put 1 or 2 black dots on a Titleist 1 and think that's a unique marking. I have a purple Sharpie in my bag and draw an O on my ball. Not so many purple O's around.

What!! That's exactly what I do. As long as you don't play in the watford area it will be fine.

 

[nickjdavis]

Not so many purple O's around.

You haven't seen me bend over.

 

[TigerBear]

It is a bit ridiculous how many people put 1 or 2 black dots on a Titleist 1 and think that's a unique marking. I have a purple Sharpie in my bag and draw an O on my ball. Not so many purple O's around.

Titleist with black, blue or red dots are very common.

I'm a combo of initials and line up lines...with that amount of ink, also works as good feedback with ink marks on the club face after every shot

 

[Boomy]

Always best to check both thoroughly (“game” ball and provisional)

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I go with two black or blue dots (depending on the coloured sharpie in the bag at the time) to the left of the number both sides but also put my initials on the side by the brand name

 

[oleinone]

Reminds me of a competition round a few years ago. We all stated ball type on the first tee and one guy was playing a brand new pro- v1 with distinctive markings. On the third we drove into a lowish autumn sun - it's always an absolute pain trying to follow the ball and we lost sight of the pro-v1. My inkling was left but a search proved fruitless until it was suddenly found right, in the semi. As we began to put, I happened to notice two identical pro - v1's were in play. It seemed to me that another player had played the original Pro v1 in error and that a second ball had made a " miraculous" appearance. Pro V1 unblushingly explained that he had lost a ball a few days earlier and I became an instant convert to this innocent explanation.

 

[jim8flog]

What titleist was it? Risky skidding down banks towards train lines for an old dt solo

It was a Prov1

There are no lines any more thanks to Doctor Beeching and they were at the top of the embankment which you need to get you shot over.

 

[jim8flog]

I am reminded of a story I have told before.

Playing with a mate I noticed he had the same ball as me but without any markings. I told me he needed to put markings on the ball and showed him my ball. Next time I played with him he had put markings on the ball identical to mine!!

 

[Orikoru]

What!! That's exactly what I do. As long as you don't play in the watford area it will be fine.

Funny you should say that, in this year's club champs I stated my ball + markings, and a bloke I was playing with went "hang on - I think I've got that as well". Turned out he had found a ball I'd lost the week before, haha. He gave it back to me even though I didn't ask for it.

 

[Bdill93]

I whack a massive BD on to my ball in any colour plus circle the ball number.

Cant miss the BD

 

[timd77]

No problems with my marking, I’ve got a Liverbird stamp which goes on each ball twice. No danger of my PP even touching it never mind playing it as he’s a manc! His usual cry is ‘there’s your ball with that sh*t on it’.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

No problems with my marking, I’ve got a Liverbird stamp which goes on each ball twice. No danger of my PP even touching it never mind playing it as he’s a manc! His usual cry is ‘there’s your ball with that sh*t on it’.

How well do the stamps stay on the ball, does it wash/wear off during the round?

 

[Bdill93]

How well do the stamps stay on the ball, does it wash/wear off during the round?

My stamps are hit and miss...

They last if ive prepped in advance and theyre very dry - especially in summer.

If its wet on the ground or the ink is fresh - doesnt last long at all.

Only £3 on ebay for a BD with a small villa esque lion too