I really don't know what the exact circumstances were or why he did what he did but yesterday in the Baily Cup at Merion, and I think in the afternoon foursome competition, one of the competitors from Pine Valley did a full-blown swan dive with all his clothes and shoes on into the creek to retrieve his ball or whatnot. This led Pine Valley team captain Marucci to get up at the dinner and award this man a special prize of a snorkel and water wings!
Personally, I think the moral of that particular act of ball retrieval is something my mother used to say:
"If America ever loses its true eccentrics they will be done for."