There’s a great story I once heard from Carnoustie Golf Links about a group of visitors who played off on the last tee time of a summer’s day.
As the staff back at base were getting ready to shut up shop, with darkness encroaching, they realised the last group was nowhere to be seen. They hadn’t completed their game and there was no word from them.
The marshal got near enough to shout over, “Hey – what’s going on?” One of the visitors held his hand up to show, and shouted back to confirm that the foursome were down to their, “Last ball!”
It may or may not be true. Carnoustie is tough enough though that I can definitely believe the tale. I always think those guys must have been very unfortunate or just didn’t search very hard to not find some other “lost” balls while they were trudging around in the rough.
Anyway, that’s a convoluted way to getting round to our question. If you run out of golf balls, are you disqualified under the Rules?
If you’re seriously unpopular and nobody will lend you a ball, you could try looking for one in some bushes or maybe, you might be close enough to your car or the pro shop to get some more.
Well, that’s because in most elite…
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