Did you ever lose a club on the golf course?
Most golfers have left a club or two behind at one time or another. So if you play, you can probably answer “yes” to question No. 1. Question No. 2 asks “did you ever get your lost club back?”
I wonder what the percentages are of getting a lost club returned?
Just by way of observation, it seems that fewer clubs are being returned to the lost and found area these days. I wonder if it is a function of the economy, or something else.
I know of one golfer who left a driver and an iron behind at a certain point in a round and had neither returned. I also remember a time when I personally had a putter taken out of my bag on the 10th tee at the Golden Horseshoe in Williamsburg, Va. I putted out on the ninth green, and had the putter in my hand as we stopped our cart at the 10th tee.
I put the putter in the bag, took out my driver and walked the long distance through the trees to the back tee. When I reached the 10th green, the putter was gone. I reported it lost but never got any response.
There is an old story in golf that originated in Scotland, that if you keep a found (or lost) club on the golf course and use it as one of your own, the golf goblins, that kind of resemble those little things that buzzed around Patrick Swayze in the movie Ghost, take your shot and steer it off line into water or the woods. This would be retribution by way of a lost golf ball and a one or two stroke penalty.
It simply does not pay to keep a club that belongs to someone else. It might turn a great round into a snoozer. It is much easier to turn the club into the pro shop so it can be returned to its rightful owner.
Remember that the next time you leave your favorite wedge behind on the seventh green.
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Ron Ryan had a hole-in-one on Father's Day, June 15, while playing at Pearl Lakes. Owner Angelo Tozzi reports that Ron was playing with his wife Kathy, his daughter Hailey, and son Evan, when he aced the 7th hole, a par 3 of 104 yards. Quite a nice present on Father's Day.
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The Dr. Steven Oristian Memorial Golf Tournament, held June 22 at Dutch Hollow, raised over $7,500, which was divided between the Hospice of the Fingerlakes and the Cayuga Museum. The tournament was won by a team composed of sons and grandsons of Dr. Oristian.
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The U.S. Open had to be one of the great tournaments in recent memory. Rocco Mediate played some of his greatest golf for five days in a row and came up one stroke short. It was great entertainment.
Tiger Woods once again prevailed over an elite field in arguably the toughest tournament in all of golf. If Woods can win with a broken leg on the extremely difficult Torrey Pines layout, there is not much he cannot accomplish.
Those two birdies on the 18th hole the final two times he played it were some of the greatest fours in major championship history. Whether you were cheering for Rocco, as I am sure most people were, or Tiger, you had to feel for both players during the Monday playoff. It is a shame one of them had to come in second.
See you on the links!
I wonder what the percentages are of getting a lost club returned?
Just by way of observation, it seems that fewer clubs are being returned to the lost and found area these days. I wonder if it is a function of the economy, or something else.
I know of one golfer who left a driver and an iron behind at a certain point in a round and had neither returned. I also remember a time when I personally had a putter taken out of my bag on the 10th tee at the Golden Horseshoe in Williamsburg, Va. I putted out on the ninth green, and had the putter in my hand as we stopped our cart at the 10th tee.
I put the putter in the bag, took out my driver and walked the long distance through the trees to the back tee. When I reached the 10th green, the putter was gone. I reported it lost but never got any response.
There is an old story in golf that originated in Scotland, that if you keep a found (or lost) club on the golf course and use it as one of your own, the golf goblins, that kind of resemble those little things that buzzed around Patrick Swayze in the movie Ghost, take your shot and steer it off line into water or the woods. This would be retribution by way of a lost golf ball and a one or two stroke penalty.
It simply does not pay to keep a club that belongs to someone else. It might turn a great round into a snoozer. It is much easier to turn the club into the pro shop so it can be returned to its rightful owner.
Remember that the next time you leave your favorite wedge behind on the seventh green.
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Ron Ryan had a hole-in-one on Father's Day, June 15, while playing at Pearl Lakes. Owner Angelo Tozzi reports that Ron was playing with his wife Kathy, his daughter Hailey, and son Evan, when he aced the 7th hole, a par 3 of 104 yards. Quite a nice present on Father's Day.
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The Dr. Steven Oristian Memorial Golf Tournament, held June 22 at Dutch Hollow, raised over $7,500, which was divided between the Hospice of the Fingerlakes and the Cayuga Museum. The tournament was won by a team composed of sons and grandsons of Dr. Oristian.
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The U.S. Open had to be one of the great tournaments in recent memory. Rocco Mediate played some of his greatest golf for five days in a row and came up one stroke short. It was great entertainment.
Tiger Woods once again prevailed over an elite field in arguably the toughest tournament in all of golf. If Woods can win with a broken leg on the extremely difficult Torrey Pines layout, there is not much he cannot accomplish.
Those two birdies on the 18th hole the final two times he played it were some of the greatest fours in major championship history. Whether you were cheering for Rocco, as I am sure most people were, or Tiger, you had to feel for both players during the Monday playoff. It is a shame one of them had to come in second.
See you on the links!
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