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John Kavanaugh

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Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« on: April 05, 2019, 10:09:28 AM »
Over on NLU there is a recent thread about a caddie who was lucky enough to find a Scotty Cameron in the bag room where he worked. It has become most cherished to him and just underwent a full restoration. Have you ever gotten so lucky?


https://refuge.nolayingup.com/t/scotty-cameron-restoration-shop-suggestions/5606
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Tommy Williamsen

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2019, 11:03:42 AM »
When I was a kid I found an entire set of clubs broken in half. I turned them in to the pro shop. The owner had them reshafted a month later.
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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2019, 11:08:05 AM »
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Tim Martin

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2019, 11:24:53 AM »
Iphone, Rangefinder, Maui Jim sunglasses, pager, car keys and a fat bag of weed. Unfortunately the weed find was long ago when sticks and stems still ruled the day. ;)


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Joe Bausch

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2019, 11:38:20 AM »
80 bucks by a tee at Jeffersonville.  And when the fellow from a couple of groups in front came back looking for it, I .....
















.... gladly returned it.   ;D
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jeffwarne

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2019, 12:35:30 PM »
a hole in a fence....:)
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Joe Hancock

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2019, 01:01:27 PM »
Friends.....
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Steve_ Shaffer

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2019, 01:31:44 PM »
I recently found a MacGregor Jack Nicklaus Signature Muirfield ball, not in good condition. Some for sale on EBay for less than $10




https://www.ebay.com/i/321166422282?chn=ps
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Jim Nugent

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2019, 01:32:39 PM »
A $5 bill on the AL Gustin golf course, back in 1969.  For me, in those days, that was a lot of money. 
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George Myers

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2019, 01:37:24 PM »
$100 bill on the practice green
turned it in the pro shop (sort of a silly thing to do...)
I think I knew who had dropped it, but they weren't around at the time I found it, hence the drop at the pro shop.
Public course in north suburbs of chicago I play once a year, so it wasn't like my home course or anything like that.

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Buck Wolter

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2019, 02:12:09 PM »

Quote from: John Kavanaugh on April 05, 2019, 10:09:28 AM
Over on NLU there is a recent thread about a caddie who was lucky enough to find a Scotty Cameron in the bag room where he worked. It has become most cherished to him and just underwent a full restoration. Have you ever gotten so lucky?


https://refuge.nolayingup.com/t/scotty-cameron-restoration-shop-suggestions/5606


Finding a putter in the bag room isn't really lucky is it? I would think there would be hundreds of them in there
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John Kavanaugh

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2019, 02:16:43 PM »
I'm sensing a common theme here. The happy return of the lost item to its rightful owner. While I never found a lost putter inside the bag room where I was employed, I have both lost and found many clubs, rangefinders and jewelry over the years. Just recently I left a very rare XXXL Galvin Green jacket in a casino card room. My faith in humanity was restored upon its return a week later.  I wish everyone who loses an item could have that same feeling I had that day.


No reason why not. Through the power of the internet we have that chance. I am hereby offering a $100 Amazon credit reward for information leading to the return of that beautiful Scotty in the O.P.  Where to start?
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Kalen Braley

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #12 on: April 05, 2019, 02:18:36 PM »
Wait some yahoo from the NLU Crew claims to have "found" a Scotty Cameron? "Deep" in the bowels of God knows where...

I'm guessing it was a "The putter got lost via 5 finger discount" kind of thing.  Especially given he "found" it so long ago and waited till now to get it refurbished, when the original owner will have given up on finding it...

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Pete_Pittock

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #13 on: April 05, 2019, 02:57:55 PM »

This February I was playing with a couple of Utahans at Falcon Ridge in Mesquite. After a particularly atrocious shot (I would have never looked for it) the guy comes back from playing it, smiling, with a found $20 bill.


Conversely,
I left three sleeves of Titleists after my final round in Australia (Tasmania GC) about 20 years ago to lower overweight baggage charges. They showed up in the mail a month later. Had used a voucher for the round, and the club tracked down my address through my travel agency.
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John Kavanaugh

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #14 on: April 05, 2019, 05:28:00 PM »
Quote from: Kalen Braley on April 05, 2019, 02:18:36 PM
Wait some yahoo from the NLU Crew claims to have "found" a Scotty Cameron? "Deep" in the bowels of God knows where...

I'm guessing it was a "The putter got lost via 5 finger discount" kind of thing.  Especially given he "found" it so long ago and waited till now to get it refurbished, when the original owner will have given up on finding it...


Kalen,


I never meant to infer that the caddie had any ill will when he procurred the Scotty. He was all of 20 for God's sake. It is for that reason I believe that now as a young man of 32 he would enjoy seeing the putter find its way home. A nice first step would be figuring out at which club the unfortunate mix up occurred. I have little doubt that like a rescue puppy who has been in a loving home for twelve years, the original owner would be happy just in knowing his beloved Scotty found a good home. Closure, so to speak.
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Bill Shamleffer

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #15 on: April 05, 2019, 06:12:24 PM »
Quote from: Jim Nugent on April 05, 2019, 01:32:39 PM
A $5 bill on the AL Gustin golf course, back in 1969.  For me, in those days, that was a lot of money.


Jim:
In the mid-1980s at LA Nickell Golf Course (also in Columbia, MO), I found a beat up classic Macgregor Eye-O-Matic 2-wood in some bushes.
I got the club refurbished and played for another 10 years.  Still have it at home.  A beautiful golf club.


When I found it many friends thought it was "too valuable" to play, and that it should be hung up on a wall like a trophy.  But my thinking is, its value was as a quality golf club.
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Steve Okula

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #16 on: April 06, 2019, 03:13:37 AM »
A Rolex watch, which I returned to the member who posted a lost and found. I figure that would cement my reputation for honesty at the club.
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Jon Wiggett

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #17 on: April 06, 2019, 06:09:51 AM »
Lots of clubs, a few watches, keys, jewellery item but the most expensive was a 5 series BMW abandoned in some trees by the side of the 5th at Howley Hall GC one morning. It had been stolen the previous night in Leeds.
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Chuck Glowacki

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #18 on: April 06, 2019, 06:29:05 AM »
$100 bill, $50 bill the very next week
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Steve Lang

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #19 on: April 06, 2019, 03:14:00 PM »
 8)  Long time ago we found a titleist 975-D driver, it was a stiff flex shaft and had been cut down making it probably xxs for some kid.  We turned it in and it sat in the lost club barrel for a month and then we retrieved it, reshafted it and Ms Sheila played it with great sound and success...


We've also found at least two rangefinders... we tell the pro's what we've found, and if no inquiries are made, keep em...  One had been chucked into a muddy ditch and the other just needed a new battery cover...


weird... we assume spoiled brats at play













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George Pazin

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #20 on: April 06, 2019, 04:04:56 PM »
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Peter Pallotta

Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #21 on: April 06, 2019, 04:43:14 PM »
Just today, the first round of the season, I found out how bad a golfer I can actually be. The surprise was that I'm even worse than I thought.
A valuable lesson in keeping it real, I suppose.
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James Bennett

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #22 on: April 06, 2019, 05:34:06 PM »
found a ping i3 14 degree fairway wood - head only.  In the rough at Rustic Canyon on about the 6th or 7th hole.  No shaft, just the head. That was in 2007 so the club wasn't in great condition.  They are the small 'pod' head woods

When I got home to Australia, I had a driver shaft with a fault inserted but cut down (eliminating the fault) - it is now a short-shafted 3 wood.  It might get an outing once a year - the memories are good though whenever I see it in the spare clubs bag.
I never considered handing in a head only - I assumed (rightly or wrongly) that the owner didn't bother retrieving the broken club.  No idea where the shaft went, it was probably in the owners hands when the head went flying into the rough.
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Thomas Dai

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #23 on: April 06, 2019, 05:43:43 PM »
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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Dan Kelly

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Re: Have you ever found anything of value on the golf course?
« Reply #24 on: April 06, 2019, 06:30:37 PM »
Bushnell rangefinder.


Turned it in, of course.


Besides, my cheap MG one works just as well.



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