Get off my ball!!!

[shortys408]

i sometimes color every dimple of my ball with a sharpie. I do this mostly out of boredom, but no one ever confuses it for their ball.

[saevel25]

hit a pink ball, no one every picks those things up

[Fat Slice]

hit a pink ball, no one every picks those things up

Some old bastid played my yellow ball with Spongebob Squarepants on it after hitting into my fairway. I found his yellow ball pretty quickly. He was up on his green staring at the happy retarded cartoon character my ball he just pulled out of the cup when he (and the rest of his group) heard me, loud and clear, call him a "DUMBSH*T!" Since he waved and yelled "sorry" I treated it as a move by an outside agency and took no penalty.

[BonoVox]

I am sorta a golf ball snob. LOL I almost never pick up a ball that I find. If I do and there is no way it is another players (hole with no side by side fairways etc) then they usually get donated to the driving range the next time I hit balls. You know those days when you hit your last shot of a bucket and hit it bad. (I hate leaving on a bad note) That is when the found ball gets donated. LOL

Anyway to pick up a ball in the middle of a fairway is just wrong! That is truly theft.

[ejimsmith]

I am sorta a golf ball snob. LOL I almost never pick up a ball that I find. If I do and there is no way it is another players (hole with no side by side fairways etc) then they usually get donated to the driving range the next time I hit balls. You know those days when you hit your last shot of a bucket and hit it bad. (I hate leaving on a bad note) That is when the found ball gets donated. LOL

Lol.. I too do the "donate a ball to the driving range!" I hate leaving on a bad shot.

I also never pick up a ball unless I'm 1000% its not in play (like super twlight, no one on the course).

[Mrd19abhs]

Last week I was playing as a single and the guy i got paired up with had 5 prov ones stolen. one hole has a double green so the ball got taken before we could get up to it. the other one was a dogleg around a corner where the other green is right of the far side of the dogleg and he hit slighty into rough where guy comes over green and grabs ball then the other three were taken off the fairway. that was the first and last time i will ever play that course. I only had one stolen but i play nike pd's so it wasnt as bad for me to get one taken

[pmowen]

I was at my local course the other day hitting balls to the 11th green from about 110 yards. It was late in the afternoon and I was one of the last people on the course. I hit all 5 in my bag and wasn't happy with the last one, so I went to the bushes to look for a lost ball, found one, came back to the fairway and saw a woman picking my balls up off the green! My bag was sitting right in the middle of the fairway 110 yards out! I yelled up to her to tell her they were mine so she calmly walked off the green with 2 in her pocket!

[Rebel_Golfer]

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.

Mind if I ask where that $13 deal is?

[Flipmode]

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.

I normally play Mt. Pleasant, Furnace Bay, or Rocky Point but when money is a little tight I go to the military bases and I live in White Marsh. Since you work for the government Im sure you can get on the bases as well. There are some GREAT deals on the military bases!

[Rebel_Golfer]

I normally play Mt. Pleasant, Furnace Bay, or Rocky Point but when money is a little tight I go to the military bases and I live in White Marsh. Since you work for the government Im sure you can get on the bases as well. There are some GREAT deals on the military bases!

Nice! I guess I would consider Rocky Point my "home course" as I play there more than anywhere. I haven't played Furnace Bay in a few years since I moved out of Harford County but someone told me it's been in pretty good shape recently?

Love Mt. Pleasant! I need to get out there soon... maybe run into you at one of them one day!

[tws1098]

I typically only pick up balls that I see in the edge of the woods or plugged in thick grass. Just the other day I misjudged an approach and put it a yard or so in the woods behind the hole (which are right behind the green) Anyway, I decided to go ahead and get my ball out since I had a good idea of where it was. Ended up finding about 6 balls up there, most of them brand new.

[BonoVox]

Last week I was playing as a single and the guy i got paired up with had 5 prov ones stolen. one hole has a double green so the ball got taken before we could get up to it. the other one was a dogleg around a corner where the other green is right of the far side of the dogleg and he hit slighty into rough where guy comes over green and grabs ball then the other three were taken off the fairway. that was the first and last time i will ever play that course. I only had one stolen but i play nike pd's so it wasnt as bad for me to get one taken

These stories (for the whole thread) are pretty unreal! This really is going beyond golf etiquette.

[Flipmode]

Nice! I guess I would consider Rocky Point my "home course" as I play there more than anywhere. I haven't played Furnace Bay in a few years since I moved out of Harford County but someone told me it's been in pretty good shape recently?

I really love playing Rocky Point on the weekdays but on the weekends its a 6 hour round of golf. Mt. Pleasant is on of my favorites but I'm a little partial to the place since its the first place I broke 90 a couple years ago. Just look for the guy with the singing Duke headcover and thats me. I see we play pretty much the same equipment. I play all Taylormade Burner woods and hybrids, everything else is Titleist.