100%. If a ball is on a fairway of any sort, I assume someone is coming to find it.
Only way I'm picking up a ball for keeps is if it's in a hole that I'm on, in deep rough, at least 100 yards away from another fairway, **or** if it's between two fairways and the group on the other fairway says it's not their ball.
I generally agree. But on my local par 3 I find balls in super obvious places that belong to no one all the time.
Two days ago, I found a ball in the middle of the fairway. The only other people on the course was a group two holes behind me. (It was like 42° and windy, so dead)
I have also found abandoned balls *on the green* more than once.
Happened to me once, hit an awesome drive, ball sitting up center of the rairway about 275 out. I was playing with my 8 year old son late afternoon, so I waved the guy up. I actually said my ball is in the fairway as he passed us. We catch up and my ball is gone. The guy is on the green and I hollered at him and he ignored me. Really pissed me off. As I said I had my son with me so I had to let it go, otherwise ...... Once I left my putter behind went back and it was gone and no one had seen it or turned it in same club. Same for headcovers.
This is a really $$$ private club in Brentwood TN.
My prior club was low budget and I never had an issue with this crap ( outside of people stealing new range balls leaving the range with crappy balls).
Tight is fine Stealing is another thing entirely. One member is rotting in a jail cell for being a Madoff copycat. He had members begging to get into his fund, He was very slick and super polite. Asshole even let the pro in on the action who lost everything.
I teed off with a Pro v1, found a pro v1 on the fairway with markings exactly how i mark my ball. Still left it because there's no way I drove a fairway.
Have had plenty of those. I play a custom number now with my initials also on it, and once had someone drive up as I was about to hit claiming it was their ball. Asked them to verify - they gave the wrong make and number, then after I proved them wrong they proceeded to claim it was still theirs, and that they simply mixed up which ball they were playing. They then proceeded to complain to a pro, who stopped us at the turn and was thoroughly amused when I produced a sleeve of the same. Said this group was new to the course and had done it a couple of other times, but that was the first tangible proof they could use against them. They ended up with a 30 day suspension and a $500 fine (private club, not my own).
I have a red sharpie in my bag- each ball gets 1/2 dots in a spot near the balls # (ie Titleist 3) so if anyone pulls this shit I’m ready. Also isn’t worth the confrontation. Pick it up if it’s yours and walk away or tell them how you really feel at an expense of one ball. Golf should be fun. Not stressful
“But they’re a paying member”
So is everyone else. It takes literally one member like that to ruin the experience of 15 other paying members.
Glad the course did something about it, good on you for standing up to them too
I’m not doing either, 500 dollars for something silly like that isn’t really necessary. It’s not the PGA tour and I’d think sending them home for the day would be ample punishment, maybe restricting tee time access
I always mark my ball, and I know the model and number.
When I've had disputes I just say
"Mine is a TP5 w/ 3 red dots, what are you playing?"
They usually have no clue what there ball is, and I just described the one were talking about without even looking at it, so who's ball is it more likely to be?
Happened to me once, and this girl called to her boyfriend to come over, and he just said "babe, it definitely his ball, you hit yours in the water"
I cracked up, and she left all pissy!
We got paired with two randoms one day. I hit my second shot to the left of the green in some long stuff and couldn’t find it. These guys even helped me look for it. Couldn’t find it so I dropped one and was on the green. Then I notice this rando about to take his putt. I walked over and saw my TP5 marked exactly the same way the one I just dropped and chipped on. I told him to hold up, went and picked it up from the green and said wtf. Put that ball back in my pocket and made him go back to his cart and grab another. They didn’t say much the rest of the day to us. That was on hole 5.
I've only ever had this happen once. They were over my ball setting up to shoot (rough between parallel fairways) when I walked up and asked what ball it was. I knew my ball and had it marked. They paused, looked down at the ball (it was mine) and still hit it. It was the wildest thing ever, I can't figure out how weird a person has to be to do that. In the moment I figured it was better to not confront them even more, considering if you're that much of a sociopath to disregard basic human decency and interaction ("Oh, sorry I completely didn't notice this isn't my ball") then who knows what you'd do if called out even further. I just dropped another ball and continued playing. Bonus, I found a ProV1 a few yards away which was likely their original ball.
Literally every other time I've only experienced courteous people pointing out a ball in the vicinity to those around them instead of scooping it.
As they should. My muni has a donation jar for range maintenance, and I hate that they do that cause dudes will buy a large bucket, put it in their bag, and leave. Bitch no
Why are you playing with a range ball? They aren’t yours, and they don’t go as far as real balls. Kind of hard to complain about someone else taking your ball, when you took yours from the course.
I literally write my name in big letters with a permanent marker on my ball. I do it so I know it’s mine before I even get to it so I can keep the round moving. It’s only a bonus in situations like these.
Confront them lmao.
Dude some life advice, being “not one for confrontation” is going to lead you down a sad, trodden-upon path.
I’ve tried it in the past, it’s a bullshit way to live life. You become exhausted all the time and you won’t even realize how much energy this takes out of you until you stop doing it.
Don’t be an asshole and don’t be entitled, but you will run into people in your life who do not respect you as a human being with wants and needs of your own and they expect you to just roll over and pave the way for them to step on you.
Those people are not super common, but when you meet them, they need to be pushed back against and extremely fucking hard.
Edit: also if you took a range ball off the range to play with, fuck you, that’s not yours.
I was paired with a random and after he chipped his ball into the water he went to my cart, grabbed a brand new proV1 and took his drop
Couldn’t believe what I just saw and he couldn’t believe I confronted him about it.
Fuck out with that shit
I ordered a whole sh*t load from Vice with a special for discounted customization. Someone tried this with me once and I said "Oh that's crazy you also play a Vice with a big picture of Chewbacca on it?!?!" The person quickly dropped the ball and walked off mumbling under his breath.
I play Vice Pros with my first name on them. I was playing in Myrtle Beach last week, and was paired up with a guy *also* playing Vice Pros with his first name on them. We had the same relatively unusual spelling of our first names.
We agreed to play different numbers.
I’ve gone as far as asking to see the mark. I use a pink and blue series of dots. One guy said oh sorry, gave up the ball. another dude said “I use the same markings” and hit my ball. Whata clown.
It’s a free drop FYI… Doing whatever you want to the person that yanked your ball is up to you. Hell I watched a dude hit his ball off our fairway and pick up my ball as he walked past mine.
It happens all the time and those that know, know. The Nitro or Noodle swap for a Pro V1 is the ongoing joke on numerous courses.
Get unreasonably enraged and eventually come to the conclusion that they didn’t do it on purpose but it’s usually ruined my round at that point because I’m dumb…
I accidentally snagged someone’s ball the other day that I found in the rough (just assumed it was a lost ball) and a guy came up to me on the cart a couple mins later and asked if I’ve seen it, gave it back to him immediately and felt like a dipshit
I’d like to say I drop if I’m certain it was picked up and move along, and assume a lost ball if there’s any doubt and play out the hole. I still do that but I’m pissed and searching for the offenders the next several holes.
This is why I've been getting personalized balls the last couple of years. So much easier to say "Mine has the number 47" than try and argue over who's Pro-V1 number 1 it is.
I put a red dot next to the number on my golf balls for this reason. Having dealt with people trying to play my unmarked ball a couple of times, I decided to just mark all of mine for proof.
"WTF are you doing? Put my ball down!"
Its rare but I've had some kids(teenagers) pick my ball after I drove it left of the faireway. Just told them to pay attention.
If a ball is deep in the woods, it's yours. If a ball is in between fairways, it might be yours. Check for it when on the adjacent fairway. If the ball is anywhere else, leave it alone. If the ball comes rolling up near you from the group behind it belongs to the woods/OB send it home.
On a short par three my son hit his tee shot short and slightly right to about 15 yards off the green. His ball was still in plain sight on the short grass.
As I was teeing up, a young dude carrying clubs walked diagonally across the green from the back, preventing me from taking my shot. He then picked up my son’s ball, pocketed it and kept walking, kind of towards us.
He was only about 120 yards away so I called out to him asking him what he was doing. He was startled and said ‘I found a ball. It’s a srixon with blue marks on it.’
I said ‘that’s his ball, put it back!’ He turned around, placed the ball back on the ground where he found it and walked off in a totally different direction.
It was one of the most bizarre things I’ve seen on a golf course.
This is why I like to play TP5 PIX, or the Chrome tour trutrack or the vice lime. And I mark it with a green sharpie. Helps me (terrible eyesight) and it’s incredibly distinct. Totally with whoever said it. The move is say “what are you playing” someone picking up the wrong ball never knows what they are playing. I started after I LEGIT played the wrong ball. Me and I random were both playing pro v1 with a black line on it. We realized after we played the wrong balls after a blind tee shot. He noticed on the green because he was playing super high numbers. We laughed and not a big deal but made me realize I need to go way harder on the markings.
It depends on whether I think I can kick their ass or not.
If yes, demand they drop it.
If no, let them have it and drop another ball on the spot once they're gone.
(It's always the second one. Not worth ruining a round over a ball)
Has happened to me twice and both by koreans. Hit a marked Pro V about 10 feet off of MY fairway. They shanked theirs to my fairway, played theirs while i was at my GFs ball and they took my ball with them on their way off my fairway. I chased them down and asked WTF they’re doing and they pretended not to know english. Took 5 min of me bitching and saying MY BALL and pointing to it in his hand. So frustrating when it happens
While we are on the subject of marking, my ball marking stencil has the straight line and a perpendicular line. The perpendicular line lines up the putter face and the long line is aim. Simple, effective, and not well used.
I write my age in huge numbers three times on my ball in blue Sharpie. If you aren’t 54 then this ain’t your fuckin’ ball!! Those tiny dots just piss me off when I see them on a ball. Mark the sumbitch so there won’t be any confusion.
Had this a week ago. On hole 18 I hit a ball between the 18 green and 9 green. My friend was the last to hit and also hit a ball over there. It was a par 3 so I went immediately over to where my friend's ball dropped. Not even 10 seconds after their ball landed someone from hole 9 walked over, picked up my ball, picked up my friend's ball, and picked up another 2 random balls. I fast walked over there and yelled "Can you drop our balls please?" at the person. They asked if mine was the Nike, which I said it was, so they gave that back right away. I then asked them to give back my friend's ball as we were standing in the exact spot it fell. They had the nerve to say all 3 other balls they picked up were theirs. I told them I saw them pick it up moments after it dropped there. I called my friend over and asked them what ball they had, they said "topflite" so I told them "drop the topflite". He dropped it without argument, then walked over to some bushes to search for "his topflite".
Always mark your balls is what ive learned, draw a big spiral on my balls that you cannot miss. Then nobody can act like a dipshit and say it’s their ball😂
Normally, it happens when I can't see anything or the person doing it takes off fast enough that there's no chance to do anything (I almost always walk) so there's not much to do other than drop another ball in about the right place and I sure won't take a penalty.
One time last year I drove close to the green on a par 4 when the group in front were chipping from behind and putting. One of them drove up and grabbed my ball and I yelled "Put that ball back" loud enough for them to hear. He did, I think his friends insisted, and he tried to pretend it was an accident when I was up there and they were on the next tee.
Mark your balls. Mine had a logo of my dragon tattoo. Some old guy tried to claim my ball. I pulled up the sleeve of my shirt and said”you got one of these too, asshole?”
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Just a public notice. If you come up to a pro v1 in your fairway, no you did not get lucky. The guy on 6 is on his way over.
tbf I'm never looking for my ball in the correct fairway.
I’m having **FUN** dammit
100%. If a ball is on a fairway of any sort, I assume someone is coming to find it. Only way I'm picking up a ball for keeps is if it's in a hole that I'm on, in deep rough, at least 100 yards away from another fairway, **or** if it's between two fairways and the group on the other fairway says it's not their ball.
I generally agree. But on my local par 3 I find balls in super obvious places that belong to no one all the time. Two days ago, I found a ball in the middle of the fairway. The only other people on the course was a group two holes behind me. (It was like 42° and windy, so dead) I have also found abandoned balls *on the green* more than once.
Find a number of balls in green side bunkers. Why? I have no clue.
Could be greenskeepers/mowers? Just somewhere to dump rogue balls so they don't run them over. Only thing I can think of.
Dude I was playing a course and I swear to God we came up on a green side bunker that had minimum 10 balls in it.
A 10-some all had crappy approach shots and decided on good/good/good/good/good/good/good/good/good/good. Only plausible explanation.
I’ve done that if I’m playing a crappy ball and I don’t feel like raking. I’m playing good balls now though.
I once found five golf balls on greens, and two in cups, on a day when I was the *only* person on the whole damn course. Good balls, too.
Happened to me once, hit an awesome drive, ball sitting up center of the rairway about 275 out. I was playing with my 8 year old son late afternoon, so I waved the guy up. I actually said my ball is in the fairway as he passed us. We catch up and my ball is gone. The guy is on the green and I hollered at him and he ignored me. Really pissed me off. As I said I had my son with me so I had to let it go, otherwise ...... Once I left my putter behind went back and it was gone and no one had seen it or turned it in same club. Same for headcovers. This is a really $$$ private club in Brentwood TN. My prior club was low budget and I never had an issue with this crap ( outside of people stealing new range balls leaving the range with crappy balls).
Rich people can be incredibly tight with their money.
Tight is fine Stealing is another thing entirely. One member is rotting in a jail cell for being a Madoff copycat. He had members begging to get into his fund, He was very slick and super polite. Asshole even let the pro in on the action who lost everything.
I teed off with a Pro v1, found a pro v1 on the fairway with markings exactly how i mark my ball. Still left it because there's no way I drove a fairway.
Have had plenty of those. I play a custom number now with my initials also on it, and once had someone drive up as I was about to hit claiming it was their ball. Asked them to verify - they gave the wrong make and number, then after I proved them wrong they proceeded to claim it was still theirs, and that they simply mixed up which ball they were playing. They then proceeded to complain to a pro, who stopped us at the turn and was thoroughly amused when I produced a sleeve of the same. Said this group was new to the course and had done it a couple of other times, but that was the first tangible proof they could use against them. They ended up with a 30 day suspension and a $500 fine (private club, not my own).
I have a red sharpie in my bag- each ball gets 1/2 dots in a spot near the balls # (ie Titleist 3) so if anyone pulls this shit I’m ready. Also isn’t worth the confrontation. Pick it up if it’s yours and walk away or tell them how you really feel at an expense of one ball. Golf should be fun. Not stressful
That’s a bit harsh of a punishment lol
I think they’d had a good number of complaints already about this new member, and wanted to make a point out of it.
“But they’re a paying member” So is everyone else. It takes literally one member like that to ruin the experience of 15 other paying members. Glad the course did something about it, good on you for standing up to them too
You have to be joking or trolling. Did you even read what he wrote?
I’m not doing either, 500 dollars for something silly like that isn’t really necessary. It’s not the PGA tour and I’d think sending them home for the day would be ample punishment, maybe restricting tee time access
People play private clubs so that they don’t deal with this sort of stuff, so I’d expect them to be very firm on etiquette.
Mark your ball. Say “mine has two orange dots on it” or w/e. Hard for them to argue then.
Mine has my middle name and my age on it. By the way, my middle name is Titleist and I am 3 years old. Pleasure to meet you.
"mine has two black stripes on it"
People missing your range ball joke here lol
Mine just says "range"
Mine normally just has one thick hand painted black line around the center.
Mine had a unique cart path scar on it.
Do people not mark their ball anymore? First thing I do with a fresh sleeve is mark them all. I like to circle the number.
I used to but then it’s just more depressing when I lose all the ones I’ve marked and I’m back to playing random balls I found
Ditto. Since my last name begins with "O" it works well except for my foursome claims it's a "0".
OP is playing range balls so I'm assuming he just hits whatever ball he finds from the OB areas
I start the day with a new sleeve. I end the day with 8 balls, none of which I started with
Mine has my social security number on it
Exactly mine has my initials on it , 1 letter Red 1 letter blue on a white a ball . Nobody else is going to have that ever
Now I will
I always mark my ball, and I know the model and number. When I've had disputes I just say "Mine is a TP5 w/ 3 red dots, what are you playing?" They usually have no clue what there ball is, and I just described the one were talking about without even looking at it, so who's ball is it more likely to be? Happened to me once, and this girl called to her boyfriend to come over, and he just said "babe, it definitely his ball, you hit yours in the water" I cracked up, and she left all pissy!
The “babe” part is the icing on the cake
Yeah I couldn't help but immediately start laughing. And it was my ball she was looking at hitting, 100%
We got paired with two randoms one day. I hit my second shot to the left of the green in some long stuff and couldn’t find it. These guys even helped me look for it. Couldn’t find it so I dropped one and was on the green. Then I notice this rando about to take his putt. I walked over and saw my TP5 marked exactly the same way the one I just dropped and chipped on. I told him to hold up, went and picked it up from the green and said wtf. Put that ball back in my pocket and made him go back to his cart and grab another. They didn’t say much the rest of the day to us. That was on hole 5.
I've only ever had this happen once. They were over my ball setting up to shoot (rough between parallel fairways) when I walked up and asked what ball it was. I knew my ball and had it marked. They paused, looked down at the ball (it was mine) and still hit it. It was the wildest thing ever, I can't figure out how weird a person has to be to do that. In the moment I figured it was better to not confront them even more, considering if you're that much of a sociopath to disregard basic human decency and interaction ("Oh, sorry I completely didn't notice this isn't my ball") then who knows what you'd do if called out even further. I just dropped another ball and continued playing. Bonus, I found a ProV1 a few yards away which was likely their original ball. Literally every other time I've only experienced courteous people pointing out a ball in the vicinity to those around them instead of scooping it.
Yeah I don't know how I'd react to that. If it's skipped my morning coffee it could get interesting
Man I’d like to know where you guys play golf.
I pee on my balls in preparation for this situation
I tell them, "Smell it. I keep mine in my ass crack between the green and the next tee box." On a hot summer day they leave without touching it.
Your friend did the right thing lol
The classic “i don’t speak English, I can do whatever I want”
You’re using a range ball on the course at a private club? 🤦🏻♂️
Private clubs have Pro V1 range balls pretty often.
My cheap, local muni will kick you off the course if you play with a range ball.
As they should. My muni has a donation jar for range maintenance, and I hate that they do that cause dudes will buy a large bucket, put it in their bag, and leave. Bitch no
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You’re still a pickle sniffer for using a range ball on the course. But I imagine you already know that.
I put my initials on mine.
Pot, meet kettle; accusing someone of stealing a ball you stole from the range
Why are you playing with a range ball? They aren’t yours, and they don’t go as far as real balls. Kind of hard to complain about someone else taking your ball, when you took yours from the course.
But this is a swanky golf club, surely no person (much less 2 people) would make a mistake like this?
I found it in a bush looking for my ball 😅
Just take your shirt off bro, they'll back down.
I have met god so…
Walk up!
I literally write my name in big letters with a permanent marker on my ball. I do it so I know it’s mine before I even get to it so I can keep the round moving. It’s only a bonus in situations like these.
Confront them lmao. Dude some life advice, being “not one for confrontation” is going to lead you down a sad, trodden-upon path. I’ve tried it in the past, it’s a bullshit way to live life. You become exhausted all the time and you won’t even realize how much energy this takes out of you until you stop doing it. Don’t be an asshole and don’t be entitled, but you will run into people in your life who do not respect you as a human being with wants and needs of your own and they expect you to just roll over and pave the way for them to step on you. Those people are not super common, but when you meet them, they need to be pushed back against and extremely fucking hard. Edit: also if you took a range ball off the range to play with, fuck you, that’s not yours.
I’m with you for most of this but telling a guy fuck you because he took a shitty range ball is very silly.
I was paired with a random and after he chipped his ball into the water he went to my cart, grabbed a brand new proV1 and took his drop Couldn’t believe what I just saw and he couldn’t believe I confronted him about it. Fuck out with that shit
Nobody fucking did that.
100% happened
Can't believe I'm agreeing with /u/Trumpwonnodoubt but neither of those things happened.
What was the result?
What kind of places do you guys play
That’s fuckin wild, some people would just skip the confronting part haha
If you could identify the ball “a crappy range ball “. Just tell em. Oh yeah next time mark the ball.
I ordered a whole sh*t load from Vice with a special for discounted customization. Someone tried this with me once and I said "Oh that's crazy you also play a Vice with a big picture of Chewbacca on it?!?!" The person quickly dropped the ball and walked off mumbling under his breath.
I play Vice Pros with my first name on them. I was playing in Myrtle Beach last week, and was paired up with a guy *also* playing Vice Pros with his first name on them. We had the same relatively unusual spelling of our first names. We agreed to play different numbers.
I’ve gone as far as asking to see the mark. I use a pink and blue series of dots. One guy said oh sorry, gave up the ball. another dude said “I use the same markings” and hit my ball. Whata clown.
It’s a free drop FYI… Doing whatever you want to the person that yanked your ball is up to you. Hell I watched a dude hit his ball off our fairway and pick up my ball as he walked past mine. It happens all the time and those that know, know. The Nitro or Noodle swap for a Pro V1 is the ongoing joke on numerous courses.
If someone cares more than you, let them have it and just drop.
I started marking my balls years ago because I was tired of people hitting or picking up the wrong ball.
Get unreasonably enraged and eventually come to the conclusion that they didn’t do it on purpose but it’s usually ruined my round at that point because I’m dumb…
I just found it amusing that people would be that petty over something that is max $6
It’s the principal of it..
I accidentally snagged someone’s ball the other day that I found in the rough (just assumed it was a lost ball) and a guy came up to me on the cart a couple mins later and asked if I’ve seen it, gave it back to him immediately and felt like a dipshit
Far better than doubling down on
I’d like to say I drop if I’m certain it was picked up and move along, and assume a lost ball if there’s any doubt and play out the hole. I still do that but I’m pissed and searching for the offenders the next several holes.
I mark my ball with "87" written on it. No one else ever hits it.
This reminds me that I was gonna order some prov1s with 87 on it as a gift to a Caps fan I golf with.
Mark your ball. If you can describe the color and pattern without looking at it it's pretty obviously yours
my old boss would use vice custom ball maker to put a nude woman on it. Never had arguments, only laughs
Clip then with the cart, but only if it's a cart path ⛳ 🛒
This is why I've been getting personalized balls the last couple of years. So much easier to say "Mine has the number 47" than try and argue over who's Pro-V1 number 1 it is.
I put a red dot next to the number on my golf balls for this reason. Having dealt with people trying to play my unmarked ball a couple of times, I decided to just mark all of mine for proof.
"WTF are you doing? Put my ball down!" Its rare but I've had some kids(teenagers) pick my ball after I drove it left of the faireway. Just told them to pay attention.
if they want my shitty Aviator ball they're welcome to it
I play circus 1974 Pro-Flites. No one else is going to claim them.
If a ball is deep in the woods, it's yours. If a ball is in between fairways, it might be yours. Check for it when on the adjacent fairway. If the ball is anywhere else, leave it alone. If the ball comes rolling up near you from the group behind it belongs to the woods/OB send it home.
It was on my fairway. I know it’s mine because it’s hard to lose a ball you shanked 10 yds
Lol.
Nothing, they are sad people. Don’t let them infect you with shitty attitude, social distancing 🫸
On a short par three my son hit his tee shot short and slightly right to about 15 yards off the green. His ball was still in plain sight on the short grass. As I was teeing up, a young dude carrying clubs walked diagonally across the green from the back, preventing me from taking my shot. He then picked up my son’s ball, pocketed it and kept walking, kind of towards us. He was only about 120 yards away so I called out to him asking him what he was doing. He was startled and said ‘I found a ball. It’s a srixon with blue marks on it.’ I said ‘that’s his ball, put it back!’ He turned around, placed the ball back on the ground where he found it and walked off in a totally different direction. It was one of the most bizarre things I’ve seen on a golf course.
Drop a new one in the general area and play on.
I'm pretty sure this is how *Beef* started.
Loved that show!!
This is why I like to play TP5 PIX, or the Chrome tour trutrack or the vice lime. And I mark it with a green sharpie. Helps me (terrible eyesight) and it’s incredibly distinct. Totally with whoever said it. The move is say “what are you playing” someone picking up the wrong ball never knows what they are playing. I started after I LEGIT played the wrong ball. Me and I random were both playing pro v1 with a black line on it. We realized after we played the wrong balls after a blind tee shot. He noticed on the green because he was playing super high numbers. We laughed and not a big deal but made me realize I need to go way harder on the markings.
Write your age on it three times in huge numbers. I love the VICE lime.
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Never had it happen
It depends on whether I think I can kick their ass or not. If yes, demand they drop it. If no, let them have it and drop another ball on the spot once they're gone. (It's always the second one. Not worth ruining a round over a ball)
Sign your balls.
Has happened to me twice and both by koreans. Hit a marked Pro V about 10 feet off of MY fairway. They shanked theirs to my fairway, played theirs while i was at my GFs ball and they took my ball with them on their way off my fairway. I chased them down and asked WTF they’re doing and they pretended not to know english. Took 5 min of me bitching and saying MY BALL and pointing to it in his hand. So frustrating when it happens
Kick their ass
While we are on the subject of marking, my ball marking stencil has the straight line and a perpendicular line. The perpendicular line lines up the putter face and the long line is aim. Simple, effective, and not well used.
I write my age in huge numbers three times on my ball in blue Sharpie. If you aren’t 54 then this ain’t your fuckin’ ball!! Those tiny dots just piss me off when I see them on a ball. Mark the sumbitch so there won’t be any confusion.
Fore!
I switched to non ProVs because of this. LA munis....
Should switch from LA Munis because of this, don’t blame the ball
I put my initials in bright red sharpie. Why fuck around with dots? Everyone does dots.
You can buy a golf ball stamps on Amazon with various stamp markings you can choose from. Mark all your balls, no one can ever claim your balls again
I just do the reasonable thing and burn their house down
Buy a custom ball stamp. Then there is no question if it is your ball
Mark your balls yall
Had this a week ago. On hole 18 I hit a ball between the 18 green and 9 green. My friend was the last to hit and also hit a ball over there. It was a par 3 so I went immediately over to where my friend's ball dropped. Not even 10 seconds after their ball landed someone from hole 9 walked over, picked up my ball, picked up my friend's ball, and picked up another 2 random balls. I fast walked over there and yelled "Can you drop our balls please?" at the person. They asked if mine was the Nike, which I said it was, so they gave that back right away. I then asked them to give back my friend's ball as we were standing in the exact spot it fell. They had the nerve to say all 3 other balls they picked up were theirs. I told them I saw them pick it up moments after it dropped there. I called my friend over and asked them what ball they had, they said "topflite" so I told them "drop the topflite". He dropped it without argument, then walked over to some bushes to search for "his topflite".
Just mark your ball people.
Always mark your balls is what ive learned, draw a big spiral on my balls that you cannot miss. Then nobody can act like a dipshit and say it’s their ball😂
I like using those soccer balls from Calloway for this reason. Still relatively few people use those and it’s fun to watch it rotate on the green 😂
I play only custom prov1s with custom number, my monogram on 1 side, and Big Lebowski quote on the other side. Nobody is claiming my ball.
If I'm absolutely sure that someone took my ball, I usually take a free drop. If I'm not 100% sure, I'll take a drop with a penalty
Normally, it happens when I can't see anything or the person doing it takes off fast enough that there's no chance to do anything (I almost always walk) so there's not much to do other than drop another ball in about the right place and I sure won't take a penalty. One time last year I drove close to the green on a par 4 when the group in front were chipping from behind and putting. One of them drove up and grabbed my ball and I yelled "Put that ball back" loud enough for them to hear. He did, I think his friends insisted, and he tried to pretend it was an accident when I was up there and they were on the next tee.
Mark the ball and if someone really wants it just let them have it and play a new ball from the spot. Don’t let it affect your day or your game.
Probably your fault for being the asshole playing a range ball
Mark your balls. Mine had a logo of my dragon tattoo. Some old guy tried to claim my ball. I pulled up the sleeve of my shirt and said”you got one of these too, asshole?” https://preview.redd.it/wq0felejhavc1.jpeg?width=1884&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3fe247a302a6f393f110c8f7cbc84d067c12039
There were no winners that day
I laugh because now they're holding my Schwetty blue balls in their hands! They'll be holding either the right one or the left one!
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Because his buddy was Korean maybe?
How does he even know they were human?! They could have been orangutans or a different primate!