Spot the ball

[barrybridges]

So I was playing golf yesterday in the sunshine and enjoying my time outside, shaking off a stinking cold.

On the 13th tee I hit a lovely straight drive right down the centre of the fairway. I walk up and to my surprise can't find my ball at all.

Anyway, cue 10 minutes of hunting around scratching my head - the nearest group was 30 minutes behind me so no rush - trying to find this blimmon ball!

Anyway, it was fair to say the course wasn't in the best of shape, so I give up and start walking back to my bag when I trip over a ridiculous crater in the ground...with my ball firmly wedged around 6 inches below the surface!

Picture here with foot to show scale:

http://bit.ly/dZZfmL

This was pretty commong sadly - the course was so badly cut.

 

[USER1999]

Good job Lefties not a member, he could fall in there and never get out.

 

[Bacardibatman]

see you carry round some rabbit bumbles with you to make it an animal scrape* lol


least u found it, (shame it was 5 minutes too late)


* there was a guy at my old club that actually used to do that
had a little plastic bag of rabbit cr@p in his bag & use to spread around a few if he got in any bad lie such as a divot

 

[patricks148]

Animal scrapping free drop i think

 

[Alex1975]

Winter rules, you can move it anyway if thats fairway.

 

[barrybridges]

Yes, I did - although it was quite difficult finding places to move it to where there was grass!

 

[brendy]

Thats a hell of a divot, who made that? Iron Byron?

 

[barrybridges]

There were loads like that - they weren't divots but presumably some sort of damage caused by buggies or carts; or maybe animals. Not sure but many of the fairways were carved up like this - definitely not caused by a golf club unless you're using a spade to play golf with!

 

[bobmac]

Picture here with foot to show scale:

Don't we need to know the shoe size to get the proper scale?

Rabbits I reckon

 

[barrybridges]

 

[brendy]

You can see the rabbit marleys beside the hole. Free drop....ings?

 

[Whereditgo]

Don't we need to know the shoe size to get the proper scale?

Surely you know the size of a golf ball though Bob? tsk tsk and you a pro and all.....

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Thought it was James not getting the weight quite right on his S&T. I hate to see any kind of animal invasion particularly on the fairways. It's hard to stop but just annoys me. We have problems with moles at the moment and a couple of fairways look like the Somme but they are slowly being taken care of and hopefully the problem will disappear. Not got too many rabbit scrapes fortunately

 

[richart]

We got rid of the rabbits when we got rid of the gorse. Also allows the heather to spread.

 

[Farneyman]

We have problems with moles at the moment

I thought it would have been a problem with goats at your place

 

[Smiffy]

If that fairway weren't so well manicured, you could mistake that for Lydd.