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r/golf•
SomeoneElse899

I played 18 over the weekend and only lost two balls.

By lost I mean they are no longer with me, not that I don't know where they went. I know exactly where they went, and it wasn't in the woods or a pond. They were both picked up by some other players on the holes next to the one I was playing on at the time. I was off the fairway a little (MY fairway, not theirs, and still between MY fairway and cart path) and I hadn't made it too my ball yet and watched them both get picked up. I confronted each player and both denied it completely. One didn't even bother slowing down as I waved to them and yelled out to that I think they picked up my ball. One round, two balls stolen. Sorry about the meaningless post, I just needed to vent.

Posted Jul 15, 2019, 6:16 PM UTC

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Turtle_Enthusiast_MD 12.0•

Bar none the most frustrating thing to happen on a course. Just don't pick up other balls unless it could not conceivably be played by someone else on the course with you at the same time.

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SomeoneElse899OP•

I couldn't believe it. The first ball stolen couldn't have been more than 3 yards away from my fairway. The guy who picked it up shanked his shot and it landed near my ball. I WATCHED him pick it up, then walk ten feet to his shot. I was being polite and asked him if he was hitting the right ball. Then I asked him politely if he picked any other ball up, and again, "no". So I sat there about 5 feet from him while shooting, just staring at him. He didn't give in, and stuck to his story. Unbelieveable.

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Turtle_Enthusiast_MD 12.0•

When you see them do it, yell from where you are. A good number of them will drop it and wave apologetically. If that doesn’t work, I just walk up to them and tell them they picked up my ball, not ask. Usually they’ll freeze, admit it, and apologize. Gotta be stern about it sometimes. I kinda feel like a dick, but I prefer that to telling my opponents and asking if they need me to take a stroke for a “lost ball.”

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SomeoneElse899OP•

I yelled the second time, at the college bros who then proceeded to point to another ball 30 yards away, as if they didn't just pick up a new ProV1. They didn't even stop or slow down. At this point I on was 13th hole, already and hour and 20 into the back nine waiting for the dreadfully slow threesome I caught up to, so I didn't bother chasing them down. I guess moral of the story is don't play late morning at the county course.

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Woolfman_820•

I haven’t encountered this yet, luckily. I think I’d ask him to show me if he had a Taylormade Project A 22 in his pocket. If he wouldn’t show me I’d say, “got it, tough being caught red handed” I’d want to make them feel like ass, but I’d never try to start a fight. Just be passive aggressive like the wimp that I am. Haha

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fredtheuser•

Guys like these need a break. They are the ones on every green repairing ball marks. They are raking bunkers. They play quickly and with perfect etiquette. You’ll never catch them holding up play by taking a mulligan or chatting up the cart girl.

Hopefully my sarcasm came through...

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ZedmusGaming•

Yea I have had it happen. Super frustrating. This dude shanks his ball just off my fairway(I imagine as I didn't see him hit) from their side. I see him looking for his ball as I am waiting for others on my teebox to finish up. I notice he seems to have "found" his ball where mine had landed but he wasn't within shouting distance. He hits and continues on and I magically can not find my ball anymore. I use snell as well so its not like its common to have my brand of ball. smh some people just have so much lack of respect for others property. I am sure he went on to shoot under par given his integrity >.>

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Arrow_Flash62619/Long Island•

I screamed at a guy once when he picked up my ball. Dude immediately dropped it and walked back to his fairway quickly lol. What I usually do to try and avoid this stuff is that if my ball is off to the side somewhere and I see a group walking up from the hole next to me I will tell my group I am going to start walking to my ball to make sure they dont take it while they hit their tee shots.

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Hobbes1990•

Most frustrating thing on the course. I actually get a little bit of anxiety if I miss the fairway and the ball lands in an area where the group in front me might end up.

But reminds me of a round playing with a buddy. We watch the dude in front of us drive back from out of the trees after we tee’d off (thought he was up on the green we couldn’t see from the tee box) into the fairway and take my buddies ball right in front of us. We finished the hole and drive up to the next tee box he was waiting on.

Buddy asked him why he picked up his ball. He said he didn’t. Looks at the ball he has on the tee and says “ oh so you’ve always played titleist pro v1x with 2 black dots and with the initials DW written above the logo?” And just takes it off his tee. The dudes face was pale white. It was hilarious.

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