Nope not for a $4 golf ball

Today I learned, Golf Balls cost $4.00.

We live across the street from a golf course, the amount of time people spend looking for balls is astounding. I certainly don't consider myself a great golfer but it's really mind blowing watching folks day in and day out.

This DA is playing it off the street?

Today I learned, Golf Balls cost $4.00.

Is it proper protocol to replace your divot in the asphalt after taking that shot?

Not when you live down the street from a course and train your Labrador retriever on the course and pick up any that you find after hours.

My wife managed a golf course in Virginia that abutted the James River. Lots of wild life on and around the course. One of the holes had a Fox that on occasion would sit just off the fairway near the green. When a ball landed on the green the Fox would run out pick up the ball, and then run off. A year or so later the head greens keeper told me that they had found the Fox den and inside were at least three dozen or more golf balls. I know the Fox took more balls than that just not sure what he did with them.

We live across the street from a golf course, the amount of time people spend looking for balls is astounding. I certainly don't consider myself a great golfer but it's really mind blowing watching folks day in and day out.

The course in Sedona, AZ has a "no penalty" drop rule for OB shots. Too many rattlesnakes surround the course.

Played Hogan many times. Never went to far from the fairway for sure. Those thorns are a beast especially if you step on one.

We live across the street from a golf course, the amount of time people spend looking for balls is astounding. I certainly don't consider myself a great golfer but it's really mind blowing watching folks day in and day out.

If that is Sheridan St. I may owe you a window or 2.

When I was in college for extra money I would dive the water traps to recover golf balls and then sell them to the pro shop for 15 cents a piece. My goal was to find 1,000 golf balls a trip in four water hazards. I met my goal on almost all my trips. They would pay ($$) me regardless of condition. Some were very nice and others had smiley cuts in them and/or water logged. Then one day I saw a huge snapping turtle on the shores of one of the water traps. When you are "looking" for golf balls in water traps there is no "looking" involved. You are just feeling around in the mud until you find a ball and put it in a mesh sack.

I had thoughts of sticking my hand in that turtles mouth and getting some fingers bit off. That was my last golf ball recovery trip.

Not sure it was a formal rule, but we practiced the same at the public course in Midland. The "rough" was untouched natural desert. Rock hard dirt, lots of snakes, and even more cactuses. Every type of native plant growing out there had thorns or stickers. Plus there was a huge prairie dog town in there. There would be times you hit a perfect shot down the middle of the fairway and your ball would just disappear into a prairie dog hole.

Guy should invest in a ball retriever (my favorite club when i played). Telescope it out to 12 feet and grab the ball.

JR

That has to be a little rough on the clubs!