I was the offender a couple times when I first started golfing and didn't know any better, and I felt like a complete idiot. Since then, I don't touch a ball on the course unless there's absolutely zero chance that it could be anybody else's ball in play. I just don't want to be "that guy".
Merely from a pace of play perspective, this makes perfect sense to me. In this case we were the first group out, and under normal circumstances would incur no resistance to normal progression of our round, but in this case 3 golfers were forced to wait on 1. Yes, Dave and I could have easily hit once he had identified his ball on the other side of the fairway, but for us it was a courtesy thing - there was another player in the fairway who was about to hit so we waited. Just like if two of us are at the same distance but opposite sides of the fairway - one waits for the other so as not to have the sound of a strike distract the other.
Who knows where they might have been?
If I'm rummaging around in the bushes for one of my wayward shots and come across a ball I've been wanting to try, I'll pick it up (if it's 100% obviously not in play by somebody else) and put it in play for a few holes. If I find ProV1s, I give them to one of my playing partners - I don't play them, but he loves them. Otherwise, I leave them where they are. Other than occasionally trying a different ball as above, I play nothing but whatever ball is my current gamer.
I would never consider anyone a 'target'. You could actually do serious harm, up to and including death, to another individual. Yes, it gets frustrating someone taking liberties in your fairway, but don't respond foolishly.
) without even playing it, “mistaking” it for my ball. I’m sorry, sir, but your MOJO is actually 30 yards into our fairway. It’s happened so many times I actually get a little anxiety when I see another cart come speeding over, assuming my ball will likely be gone. I’ve never confronted anyone over it, though.
Yesterday we were playing behind a threesome that were a bunch of knobs. On 18 (par 5), one of them parked his cart about 60 yards short of the green to hit his approach shot, and left it there when they walked up to the green to putt. I was laying up on my second shot, so I hit and my ball landed fairly close to their cart. They started walking off the green, and I hurried down there because I figured for sure they'd pick my ball up if they noticed it there, just seemed like those kinda guys.I’ve lost far too many balls to other golfers on adjacent holes who hit an errant tee shot and swoop over and nab my ball (often out of the rough
It's hilarious how important that little white/yellow or red dimpled ball becomes when you potentially see someone heading towards it. Most of the time they are just trying to locate theirs, but man does it bring out a streak from some people....I enjoy this thread and the bizarre scenarios that sometimes occur on the course that have you just scratching your head. People can be weird. And that may be especially true on a golf course.
I’ve lost far too many balls to other golfers on adjacent holes who hit an errant tee shot and swoop over and nab my ball (often out of the rough
But I have been confronted. Displeased with my ****** duck hook off the tee, I hit a second ball “for fun,” blocking it big time. I play my original ball and my buddy drives us over to retrieve my second ball. A threesome is coming up the fairway, and I see 4 balls in the fairway. We swing over and nab mine quickly. As soon as we do, someone who must suffer from the same anxiety I mentioned above, veers off course and drives right to us. He’s shouting something we could not hear, and when he gets close we stop and he yells at me for stealing his ball. “He saw me put it in my pocket.” I asked him what he was playing. He said ProV no. 2. I pulled out my yellow/black Truvis. He looked embarrassed—his face was red the entire time—but didn’t even apologize. He then drove back to his hole, where his ball was sitting in the middle of the fairway. Just bizarre.
hahaha "the most embarrassing walk on the golf course"
We always joke "hey, xxxxx's going to go introduce himself to some new golfers"
