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A couple times a week I go to the course and practice chipping/putting. I usually go around 5 pm, and stay there until around 7 or so. Lately, people have been leaving FULL buckets just lying around, or spread out across the chipping green. What usually happens is they hit at the range, get tired or have to go, and just chip away until they run out, leaving them spread out all over the place. I will usually go and pick them up and hit them at the range, but it closes at 6:30, so I don't always have time.

Just wondering if it would be wrong of me to go and collect the balls people left and saved them for the next day? I would only be taking them until the next day so I can hit at the range later. I haven't done it yet because I don't want to be doing something that isn't right.

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I'd say it's wrong. Nothing wrong with hitting a few left over balls but taking them home and hording them for a free session the next day is a bit cheap. Assuming there's a fee for practice balls you'd be harming the club financially (if you were to pay without these freebies). Plus, imagine your embarrassment if you were caught sneaking those balls out of the club..... :-D
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Definitely wrong - the full buckets left are probably from a person with a *range plan* - nothing used to bother me more than the old man hovering around the range running up and hitting that ball or 2 that someone left.

Hitting them the next day would definitely be construed as stealing.

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I wouldn't do it.  I don't see anything wrong with you hitting the balls at the range, but I wouldn't take the balls off property.  Also another tip, don't go to the range and hit those free balls right as the place is shutting down.  Some ranges pick the place clean every night and it annoys the guy running the range picker to see someone hitting free balls onto a range he just picked right before closing time.

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Sometimes I will save a bag of range balls to hit after the round if I was having problems on the course, but I would never leave the course with them.  There is actually a sign up at my home course that says "please do not remove the range bags from the property".  I guess it was becoming a problem.

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I'm with everyone else here. Nothing wrong with hitting some balls that are left on the range or chipping area but you can't take them off the property.

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Originally Posted by jetsknicks1

I'm with everyone else here. Nothing wrong with hitting some balls that are left on the range or chipping area but you can't take them off the property.

Ditto. I think collecting them from outside of a certain distance and/or storing balls on-site but in a "hidden" location would both be "not cool" as well.

I know you didn't ask about those things, but still. I've spent time at a range and you see some cheap bastards doing some crazy stuff. :)

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Not only wrong to take balls home but you could get in legal trouble.

The range has no idea you only meant to "borrow" the balls. Besides, you did not pay for them.

So -- IT IS WRONG!

Of course, you can look at a few stalls down and up, like most of us do, for guys who hit about 10 balls before a round and then left almost the entire bag there, or at a full range, some guys leave balls from banging fatigue -- I think the range expects those to be free pickings, although technically they can and do pick them up when their range people patrol the range.

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No matter what your intent, the course/range only sees you taking their property.  To them, that's theft.  Don't even think about it.

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Hitting leftovers is fine, but hiding them or taking them home is wrong in my opinion.

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Thanks for the replies guys. Guess I'll keep leaving those tempting buckets sitting there I never take them home, I even feel weird hitting the left overs sometimes. I only hit at the range about twice a week, so I'm almost always at the putting green or chipping green which are about 80 yards from the range. I don't go over there and hover around or anything, the only buckets I ever hit are when the guys come spray them all over the chipping green and then leave.

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Originally Posted by iacas

Ditto. I think collecting them from outside of a certain distance and/or storing balls on-site but in a "hidden" location would both be "not cool" as well.

I know you didn't ask about those things, but still. I've spent time at a range and you see some cheap bastards doing some crazy stuff. :)



"The Lurker" I think someone already brought him up. The guy who hangs around the range just waiting for somebody to walk away without hitting his entire bucket. Buddy! The bucket's only 3 bucks!

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Originally Posted by iacas

I've spent time at a range and you see some cheap bastards doing some crazy stuff. :)



That is so true! We actually had a guy turn up the other day and start filling a basket with balls from the range. When we asked him what he was doing he told us the previous owner of the range used to let him hit balls for free. Oh really?! We told him to pay up or get lost as nicely as possible. He hasn't been back. We charge 16 Euros for 400 balls. It's really not a lot. I happened to notice he was driving a pretty sporty Mercedes too. Unreal.

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I only considered pocketing balls once and that was after the dude who sold me 2 buckets ($12) turned out the lights 15 minutes later. I guess closed at 9 must mean they shut the lights out at 9 too. Instead I hit the ball in the dark...it was a fun exercise...

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Originally Posted by MacGregor9

Our lowest bucket is 8 bucks for around 50 balls.



You're being raped.  Ours is $4 for small and $8 for a large (and they also have a warm-up bucket for $2, about half of a small).  Used to be they gave a $1 break for a large ($7), which is twice the size of a small, but too many guys were coming together and sharing a large bucket instead of each buying a small - each time the course was losing a buck.  So they just took away the deal.

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Originally Posted by Fourputt

You're being raped.  Ours is $4 for small and $8 for a large (and they also have a warm-up bucket for $2, about half of a small).  Used to be they gave a $1 break for a large ($7), which is twice the size of a small, but too many guys were coming together and sharing a large bucket instead of each buying a small - each time the course was losing a buck.  So they just took away the deal.

It cost me like $9 for 75 balls and the range sucks too.  I don't really have many other options though.


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Originally Posted by Fourputt

You're being raped.  Ours is $4 for small and $8 for a large (and they also have a warm-up bucket for $2, about half of a small).  Used to be they gave a $1 break for a large ($7), which is twice the size of a small, but too many guys were coming together and sharing a large bucket instead of each buying a small - each time the course was losing a buck.  So they just took away the deal.


Tell me about it, whenever I hit there I can see my money rolling away with every hit! lol. If it wasn't for the nice practice putting/chipping greens, I wouldn't go there. I have my own bucket of about 200 balls, but I can only hit them at a college when nothing is going on, which is almost never.

A course that is a little farther away does $10 for I think about 110 balls, but they don't have nice practice facilities.

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