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Bit of a rant here. My buddy and I are on the 18th hole all square, the loser every turn buys a round of beer. I know its a small bet but it keeps our competitive juices going. Anyway, I get a good hold on my drive, 260 dead middle of MY fairway. My buddy is about 25 yards behind me on the left. As I am walking up to my ball here come two guys walking down MY fairway. They proceed to walk over to my ball and pick it up, and act as if its normal to pick up a ball on someone elses fairway. I sprint towards them and politely ask if they just picked up a Titleist ProV. "UMMM yeah...here you go". No apology, NOTHING! We agreed on where I was able to drop the ball and I proceed to scull my next shot over the green in frustration,end up with a double bogey on the hole. Long story short, beer was on me. LOL

I just couldnt believe that these guys walked down my fairway and nonchalantly pick up my ball like this sort of behavior is normal. Arrrgg, I seriously wanted to wrap my 8 iron around them. Has this happened to anyone before? If so, how did you handle it?


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This guy at the bar after a round of golf today was talking about how this asian guy just came up and took his ball as he was walking towards it.

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I see you live in md and I've had it happen to me or my playing partners quite a few times. There's just some courses around me that get so over run with people who have no clue. I joined a country club because I couldn't take it anymore plus I got a great deal. Basically depending on where I'm playing I just expect this stuff to happen sometimes.
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I was on the wrong end of one of these last time I got out. On the 3rd hole, as a single I played through a 6-some of pretty good golfers who were playing a bit slowly because of their numbers. They were very cool about it. A hole or two later, par 4 down a big slope, I hit my drive out right, so leave the fairway, then come back on down by the green. On the downslope I found a lonely looking Pro V1x and looked around to see where it could have come from. After a few moments picked it up and walked on my way... then heard another ball land 20 or 30 yards off. Finished out the hole, then realied those guys had not fallen as far behind as I'd thought and I just had not been able to see them at the back tees at the top of the slope. I figure they hit "in" to me because I was probably out of view on the other fairway.

Oops. So, of course, I ran over and grabbed the rest of their golf balls and made like a road runner for the next tee.

Or not. I put on my best "I'm a moron" expression, and asked if they'd like me to put the ball back where I found it, which they did. I felt like a complete fool, but they were not too bothered about it. It was a heck of a drive, though, I don't feel TOO bad for not immediately realizing it was a tee shot from where it landed. It was at least sort of hidden in a spot where someone could plausibly have lost it in the fairway, sort of in an undulation. But still, I learned a lesson....

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Well last summer me and my two friends were playing a round, when we were going up to my friends 3 shot in the fairway, this girl ran out of the woods, picked up the ball, and ran away. Too bad for him, but it's still a funny story to tell.

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Posted
I'm sure it's happened to me before. Sorry, not trying to be a douche, but c'mon... either you tilt WAY too easily or it's a pretty lame excuse for your second shot.

And saevel, I'm sure you didn't mean it to sound that way... but golfers of all races do some strange things on the course.

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I seriously think people should be required to read a book on golf etiquette before they start playing...wishful thinking. Joining a club would be great but I'm pretty sure my wife wouldnt go for it. Champ, what club do you belong to, if you dont mind me asking.

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True, but i was just specifying directly what the person at the club bar said. He said the guy was asian, its someone elses issue if they are offended by it. I was not saying that all asians do that, just repeating what i heard. People are only offended if they want to be, period. Someone could call me a douche for all they want, i just think they are and idiot for doing so, no skin of my noise. Thats why i don't get why people get upset over such things, because i don't.

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LOL I wasnt trying to use it as an excuse. I could care less about having to buy a round of beer. Truth be told I wasnt having a great day anyway. I could have birdied the hole and still been as mad.

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  clubchamp said:
I see you live in md and I've had it happen to me or my playing partners quite a few times. There's just some courses around me that get so over run with people who have no clue. I joined a country club because I couldn't take it anymore plus I got a great deal. Basically depending on where I'm playing I just expect this stuff to happen sometimes.

another factor in the "so sick of my course" thread. Clueless idiots with no regard to other golfers. These guys are probably the same guys who leave their buggies on the opposite side of the green to the next tee, and insist on marking their scorecards together in the middle of said green, looking back up the fairway and pointing to where each shot was played from counting 1,2,3,4,5,6....

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  Flipmode said:
I seriously think people should be required to read a book on golf etiquette before they start playing...wishful thinking. Joining a club would be great but I'm pretty sure my wife wouldnt go for it. Champ, what club do you belong to, if you dont mind me asking.

Crofton but I might be leaving after this season since I should be able to finally join the naval academy... Walden country club in crofton has decent deals on their memberships.
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  killerduck said:
another factor in the "so sick of my course" thread. Clueless idiots with no regard to other golfers. These guys are probably the same guys who leave their buggies on the opposite side of the green to the next tee, and insist on marking their scorecards together in the middle of said green, looking back up the fairway and pointing to where each shot was played from counting 1,2,3,4,5,6....

Yeah this course is really starting to get overcrowded with people who have no clue about etiquette. Last year on this same course we were following a group who wouldnt replace the pin. Every hole we would have to walk up to the hole, replace the pin and then walk back to our ball to hit it. Finally after 5 holes we called the clubhouse. The kid behind the counter told us just to aim at the middle of the green since we probably wouldnt be holing any shots out anyway. So why do we keep coming back...simple, $13 to walk EVERYDAY and all you can play!!! LOL. Also, for the price it really is a good course.

Champ, I tried looking up Walden GC but I guess their website is down. Unfortunately, even if I was able to join, Crofton is too far.

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If you want to play with the pins out, theres a course near Cincinnatti, i believe that does the greens keeper's revenge. Basically some holes have three holes cut in them, but you don't know which one is which because the pins not in. They are rolled and cut to tour speed, and the pin placements are purposely put in really bad spots. Its just a fun day on the golf course. But you better know what your getting into before going, or otherwise you might get mad ;b

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It happens. Not usually when one's ball is lying in one's own fairway (I've never actually seen that)... more often when your ball is in the rough between adjacent holes, or in the wrong fairway. When I hit a stray shot like that, I usually head for my ball as quickly as possible to try and get there before the group playing the other hole.

My home course is a very busy public course, yet it's fairly unusual to have a ball picked up unless it is truly a wild shot. Most players still tend to look around to see if there is anyone who might have lost the ball before absconding with it. I have left a ball lying quite often even when I couldn't see a potential owner around, simply because it was in a location where it is hard to believe that it was actually lost. I'm not a ball hawker, so the majority of balls I find on the course I don't play anyway. At times I've "rescued' my ball from a hazard, and in the process snagged 2 or 3 others from the same spot. Usually the strays are just left for someone else to reemploy.

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It happens to me at least once a year.....pipe my drive, middle of the fairway, finally hit a nice long one.....another ball from another tee box headed up the other hole rolls out about 10 yards from mine.....we get held up, maybe help a buddy look for his ball, whatever.....the other group has gone and there is only one ball left in the fairway.....yep, you guessed it....my nice new ProV1X is now a 10 year old cut up Slazenger


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I drive the ball deep and offline so it happens to me all the time. I only pick up and keep golf balls if I find on while looking in super deep grass where the only ball that could be in play from any hole would be mine. If I see a ball on the fairway I just go right past it.

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I had this once,we were waved to play through(on a par 3)I tee'd off and landed just off the fringe,my buddy went in the pond,so there for the other guys carried on while my buddy fished his ball out,as i went over to play my second shot my ball was nowhere to be found,i followed the guys to the next tee box and confronted them and asked if any of them had played a nike with a red circle around the number of the ball,sure one of them had it in there pocket,why the hell did they play my ball,with my mark on it,do they not know what ball they play...couldnt they indetify it as not theres....

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  Flipmode said:
Yeah this course is really starting to get overcrowded with people who have no clue about etiquette. Last year on this same course we were following a group who wouldnt replace the pin. Every hole we would have to walk up to the hole, replace the pin and then walk back to our ball to hit it. Finally after 5 holes we called the clubhouse. The kid behind the counter told us just to aim at the middle of the green since we probably wouldnt be holing any shots out anyway. So why do we keep coming back...simple, $13 to walk EVERYDAY and all you can play!!! LOL. Also, for the price it really is a good course.

What course do you generally play and what area do you live. I work for the government and I always hear stuff about golf course deals since I work with people from all over.
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