The Golf Ball Collectors .

[colintrav]

Am sure we have all seen those type of individuals and at times small groups that hog the boundry of the course that hunt for Golf balls .

Do you ever come across some that watch your tshot if it strays they go dashing for it and for some reason they assume you'll buy it back or just pick it up and put it in there pocket/bag with a smirky smile known you have seen them do it .

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Our course is set on private land with no public access at all so its not a problem. We get the odd member who'll carve one OB on a couple of the holes and won't give up £3 without going in and spending ages looking. They usually find loads but never their own.

I use to be a member of Wimbledon Common and the school holidays were notorious for missing balls. There are a number of holes where you'd drive and as you made your way up a fairway kids would dive out on their bikes and nick the ball. No point chasing them.

 

[mono217]

I must admit me and a few friends look for balls on the practice ground in the night not when people are playing

 

[GB72]

When I have played at Orton Meadows in Peterborough there is always a bloke in a pair of waders on the 18th who goes through the water hazards looking for balls. Other than that, no experience of people actually nicking balls off the fairway in this country, though my parents have had this happen in the carribean when local lads have offered to sell their ball back to them

 

[Parmo]

When I was a kid I used to look for golf balls and sell them or use them. I did see a while back an old man looking for balls and when I played last in Spain some German women was following us round Las Ramblas course looking for our lost balls.

If I am at the range early I tend to have a look in the edges of the rough whilst walking back to my bag, usually I finf top flites but they are ok for driver practice as they end up in the near by woods lol.

 

[Junior]

GB72, i've suffered at Orton Meadows a few times !! Little bar-stewards are all over the place !!

 

[Yerman]

Since before I joined my course has had a fence all around it but it hasn't stopped magpies attacking the ball and pecking it off the fair way!, what's the ruling on that?

 

[Parmo]

Replace the ball where nearest spot it was at before being attacked, same as dogs :shakeyfist:

 

[Andy]

Had a ball stolen once, but chased the chav and caught him.

Retrieved ball and chav left for home with tears flowing lol

Andy

 

[jammydodger]

Used to play on a military 9 hole course and once a year we sent the divers into the ponds to scour for balls. Literally hundreds and hundreds would come out , quite a lot were fine to play too but most went in the praccy bag or got binned.

 

[tonyv]

Has one on Friday, was playing behind a four ball and towards the last few holes was probably the last person out. Got to the 17th and hit a great drive down the middle, when I got to where I though my ball was - nothing, looked around a bit as the four ball in front was still finishing off on the green then one of them came over and said "I picked you ball up as I didn't hear it land so though no was behind, I dropped it over there when I saw you looking"

At least he was honest

 

[viscount17]

Canon's Brook is the first course I've seen with a sign that says that lost balls are the property of the course.

A bit cheeky I think, sell you a ball, you lose it and they want it back to sell again?

I have to admit to having found a few (29 in one round!) but that says more about where my shots were going; fish four out the lake before catching your own.