Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?

[Steve Wilson]

$14 dollars in a copse of pines where I was looking for my....my friend's ball, yeah, that's the ticket.  It looked like it had been there all winter and then some.  I'm not counting the innumerable clubs I've returned to players who left them around the green.  I could have nearly an entire set of Pings on Pinehurst #4 back in the nineties.  The guy must have used six or seven clubs to chip with.  It became comical as I would find one and just wait for him to come putting back in his cart.


No reward, not even a tip.     (That's for you, Dan).

[Pete_Pittock]

I know a chap who first met the lass who would later become his wife on a golf course when they were both teenagers and they’ve been together ever since (they are both aged in their 90’s now).
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winner, winner

[Jeff_Brauer]

Not quite the same, and I have told this story before, but on a visit to see my Mom, and flying into Detroit, I stopped at Oakland Hills to see if I could get a tour.  I had called the super, no answer so I thought I would just drop in.  The maintenance building was empty, but there, laying out on a table was the Ross plan for the 1951 US Open.  No camera on the cell phone then so I didn't take a photo.  I hate to admit it, but for a millisecond, I did think about taking it, if only to have a print shop scan it, and then try to sneak it back later.  But, as Nixon said...."That would be wrong."

[Sven Nilsen]

Not quite the same, and I have told this story before, but on a visit to see my Mom, and flying into Detroit, I stopped at Oakland Hills to see if I could get a tour.  I had called the super, no answer so I thought I would just drop in.  The maintenance building was empty, but there, laying out on a table was the Ross plan for the 1951 US Open.  No camera on the cell phone then so I didn't take a photo.  I hate to admit it, but for a millisecond, I did think about taking it, if only to have a print shop scan it, and then try to sneak it back later.  But, as Nixon said...."That would be wrong."

Pretty sure that would have been the RTJ plan.

[Jeff_Brauer]

Not quite the same, and I have told this story before, but on a visit to see my Mom, and flying into Detroit, I stopped at Oakland Hills to see if I could get a tour.  I had called the super, no answer so I thought I would just drop in.  The maintenance building was empty, but there, laying out on a table was the Ross plan for the 1951 US Open.  No camera on the cell phone then so I didn't take a photo.  I hate to admit it, but for a millisecond, I did think about taking it, if only to have a print shop scan it, and then try to sneak it back later.  But, as Nixon said...."That would be wrong."

Pretty sure that would have been the RTJ plan.

Nope, it was the one Ross did before his death, causing them to hire RTJ to replace him.  It was mostly red pencil marks on a print.  Not sure if Ross ever took it back to the office to "formalize it."

[Sven Nilsen]

Very cool.  Wonder if any of his ideas are being incorporated into the current renovation.

[Marty Bonnar]

Total consciousness.

[Steve Wilson]

I know a chap who first met the lass who would later become his wife on a golf course when they were both teenagers and they’ve been together ever since (they are both aged in their 90’s now).
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As Mr. Pittock said, Dai won the internet today with this one.

[Greg Tallman]

Not I but member of my staff found wallet of a certain baseball pitching legend with north of $13,000 inside. Track him down, return wallet. Tip for staff member was terribly disappointing, perhaps enough for a modest lunch at a local taco stand.

[Jeff_Brauer]

Very cool.  Wonder if any of his ideas are being incorporated into the current renovation.

Have no idea on the current renovation, but from memory, I was surprised how much like RTJ's eventual plan Ross's looked.  It seemed the USGA was probably driving the bus even way back then.


Back on topic, while not of great value, I found a Bramble ball when they were digging up the Pioneer Park in Lincoln, NE, golf course for a renovation.  That opened in 1916 (Tucker) and the bramble was last made in 1900, so it appears there were frugal golfers way back when.


When working for Killian and Nugent on my first project the renovation of the old Edgewater GC into a 9 hole executive for Chicago Park District, we brought Chick Evans out to grand opening and while on tour he mentioned he had put a Spalding Dot golf ball down a tree every year as a remembrance to his mother.  We had rerouted the whole course, but found the tree and someone dug out several early 1900's golf balls.  Again, not great shape, and probably no value, but at least the $14 and similar amounts others have described.


So, I guess you could say "memories."  He who dies with the most stories wins, right?

[Mark Pearce]

An engagement ring in the gravel car park at Nairn, 27 years ago, first thing in the morning, as the sun rose.


The same one my wife had lost the day before and which we had driven 70 miles starting at 5am on the off chance that we might find it.

[Rich Goodale]

I've had nearly 10 clubs stolen, most of them 6 or 7 irons, mostly reported to the Pro Shop but amazingly never found and returned to me.  More important club loss was my Ping Eye 2 one iron.  I also had a gold antique Tissot wrist watch that disappeared from my bag.....Oops, forgot that we are talking about finding not losing.....




The most important find by me was on a Sicilian course of reasonably good standard, where I found a bag of ProV1 range balls by the 16th tee.  I gave it back to the Pro and he bowed and kissed my wedding ring and saying "Grazie Signore!" continuously.


I wondered why, but my wife who speaks decent Italian, told me afterwards that the bag was the property of the owner of the club, and the owner was the local Don.  I think I might have saved a life that day.....