most balls lost in a single round?

[PiKapp23]

While I can't compete with 16 lost balls and this is probably not the most I have ever lost anyway, it's interesting none-the-less. Last year I played this country club course. The previous year there had been a bad drought so they had overseeded the rough very heavily late in the fall. With lots of rain early in the spring we played there in April and the rough was the thickest, deepest I have ever seen because they still had not cut it for the first time. I was a little off that day, but not missing fairways by much. Because of the rough I lost 11 balls that were in the rough and under normal conditions would have been very playable. Of those shots I lost only 1 (maybe two) were more than 4-5 yards off fairway (any further off and the rough was thinner). Twice I lost balls off second shot because when playing my drive from rough (surprise! I found a few) the clubface closed down and sent ball into rough on other side. By the back nine I had stopped even looking for ball more than a minute or so. Unofficially, I shot a 112 that day and that was just from taking a 2 shot penalty for each ball I couldn't find.

A buddy of mine and I were playing 2 years ago on this course that hass big old oak trees framing almost all the fairways. It was autumn and the course had not been well cleaned of leaves - add to that, the wind was blowing them all over the place, plus blowing new leaves down. He bought a box of ProV-1's at the pro shop (for about $45 or more - it was pro shop prices) and had lost them all by the turn because we couldn't find balls with all the leaves. If it was in fairway you could find them (although sometimes you still had to look a little while), but in the rough you only found it by accident. To this day, he still will not play that course again.

[sean_miller]

>20 for back to back rounds on a 9-hole course. The course I learned to play on had a lot trees on every hole, but the worst part was the river crossed 8 of the 9 holes at least once. I worked on the course so I always had a lot of golf balls (mostly crap) and I had no fear of going for it. Now that I think about it, 20 balls may be underestimating. I calculated once that I probably lost over 600 balls that summer.