A tale of lost golf balls
Losing golf balls still happens to me a lot especially when playing in difficult courses or when facing all kinds of hazards even when playing in a relatively easier or familiar courses.
Some of these lost balls are never recovered especially when it went into water hazards or thick jungles but many of these precious golfers properties can be found by those hunting for it and re-sell them as 2nd hand balls.
The questions I would like to pose to the readers of this blog is, what would you do if you find these lost golf balls when you were trying to search for your strayed ones?
As for me, I used to appreciate this and would collect these lost balls, thinking it as the replacements of my lost golf balls. However, I began to realize that what is not mine will not last long… not that what is clearly mine (golf balls that I bought myself) would never be lost anyway.
In many occasions, the minute I took some lost balls and pocket it, I would almost surely lose my next golf ball in the very next shot… either it goes into the water, roughs, jungles, OB or what ever hazards waiting in the very next hole.
As I experience this phenomena more and more, my mind boggles as to whether I should or should not have taken the balls that I have found which were ckearly not mine and soon I began to realize that it is not worthwhile to pickup these lost golf balls and pretending it to be mine as the replacement for my lost ones.
So what I have decided to do is to never again take these lost balls that I have come across, no matter what.
What I have found out as a result of this decision is quite interesting if not amazing.
I now think I lose a lot less golf balls and enjoy the game much better. Losing less golf balls could however be attributed to increasing skills as we play more often and acquire more experience on the green but what is most important to me is that my conscience is clear that I have not taken anything that does not belong to me which helps me play with a clearer mind…. regardless of the results I achieved.
So, that is my two cents on lost balls… what about yours? Share with us your stories. Have a good weekend!
I am off to Seri Menanti tomorrow for a round of golf at KGDRSM.
Image credit: Anne Suhana
