Returning a lost club

I'm very cautious about keeping track of my clubs when playing, but, of course, I couldn't find my new i500 pw when I made the turn last week. Stupid thing is, I didn't use it on the front, don't remember pulling it out of the bag , and noticed it missing on 11. I've been calling the course (a well known resort) twice a day to see if someone turned it in, but to no avail. Pretty disappointing - can't tell you how many clubs I've picked up over the years, and I never considered keeping them. Golf etiquette, consideration/manners I suppose. I'm resigned to the fact that I'll have to shell out full freight to Ping to get a replacement.

Hate this for you. I’ve picked up many, never kept one either. Karma will catch up to them.

Sorry to hear.. same happened to me 35 years ago at the top club in Canada ... my pw was not turned in ... Titleist blades

a big hit for an 18 year old

I dont understand why people keep clubs. I could see keeping a the head of a driver someone snapped the shaft off of but random irons and wedges? What are you going to do with em...sell em on ebay for 20 bucks?

"I couldn't find my new i500 pw when I made the turn last week. Stupid thing is, I didn't use it on the front, don't remember pulling it out of the bag , and noticed it missing on 11. I've been calling the course twice a day to see if someone turned it in, but to no avail."

I'm confused, if you never pulled the club from your bag, never hit a shot with it - then it seems pointless calling the course, as there was nothing for anyone to turn in.

Seems you need to figure out where else and how else you lost it.

That sucks. I always return clubs. Even found a Bushnell rangefinder in a cart after a round and I turned that in. It's good golf juju and in life in general. I'm sorry this happened to you.

Sorry to hear this. I can’t imagine anyone playing two PW? Seems odd. Maybe they simply forgot to return it? Next competition they’ll be docked for 15 clubs Lol...

I know what you mean. Who wants to keep a random 7i? That said, I bet wedges are the most commonly forgotten club, even in pairs, and they are worth a bit more than a random club from a set*.

I've often had a playing partner leave his wedges by the green after putting out, and I think I've done it once or twice as well. We've also found wedges left by the green by groups playing ahead of us. We always return any clubs we find, and have always had ours returned as well.

* based on second hand prices in my local second hand golf shop.

What I can say is that I remember being between a 9 and pw on 1 shot, looked at both, and chose the 9. On the 6th hole, I hit into some deep cypress roots and recall thinking that I'd use my pw to scoop it out. I know that I didn't hit it.

That sucks, horrible feeling when it happens.

Clubs, headcovers, whatever should be handed in - period. Just the right thing to do.

Left my GPS in a cart once...Course never could find it, but generously offered me a rangefinder that was found a few days earlier (did not take it)....Don’t know if you’d consider that good or bad etiquette from the course staff smh

Found many clubs, and always turned them in. I've lost 3 clubs in my 50 years of playing, and they were returned to me. Within the last two weeks I have found, and turned in, a GPS, and a rangefinder. I've found many things on the course, and only kept balls and tees.

If it's just lying on the ground near the green I'll pick it up and try and return it. Chances are it was someone just ahead of me. If I don't find the owner I'll hand it in at the pro shop. If it's propped up somewhere, moved out of the way I'll leave since it's likely someone else has already reported it and the owner will be coming to get it.

I used to make a point of leaving my wedge on top of the flag pole if I'd carried it to the green on the grounds that no-one ever forgets to put the flag back in and they'd see my club. Unfortunately with the new rule change the flag is often left in so the trick doesn't work.

Mind you I also remember one time when someone picked up the flag pole then started carrying it toward their bag. They got several yards off the green before someone pointed it out :)

I lost my favorite pw years ago during a round and backtracked but never found it. It was an off brand I doubt anyone would want to keep, but I loved it. Later in the round I found a nice new Callaway pw and turned it in assuming karma would return mine. Didn't happen, but my conscience is clear.

I hate people leaving their clubs on the flag. Unless you're the only person that puts the flag back in your group, it's extremely annoying. Put the clubs nearest your cart or bag.

I appreciate when people put there club on top the flag. It beats back tracking to go get it and slowing up the round.

Don't lose hope yet. Sometimes people forget to turn them in at the end same remember the next time they play the course. This happened to me, forgot a wedge and asked next day, nothing. Tried a couple of weeks later and there it was.

St Georges?

You still have that club?

You don't know that someone found it.

Years ago, they were talking golf on a local radio show and some guy called it and said if he finds a club on the course, it's his. He was not very popular to say the least.

Way back when I got some Ping Eye 2+ irons and they came with my first "L" wedge - a few weeks later was playing a local muni - noticed when I got home it was missing and immediately went back to the course and knew right where it should have been if nobody had found it. Well, someone found it and kept it because it wasn't where I left it and wasn't ever turned in. Not too many years ago I left a sand wedge out of town when playing with my dad and daughter a couple of days before she had a state qualifying meet at the course. When we were there a couple days later I checked and nothing had been turned in, but left my name and contact info. A couple of weeks later a Titleist guy was at our course and had done a demo day at the other course the week before and someone had given it to him to take to our area - first course he went to he asked and was told when he was at my course the next day that someone would know me and get it to me. Pretty neat.

I always pick up clubs found and if not tracked down on the course by folks coming backwards looking for lost clubs, turn them in, along with anything else equipment-wise I find. Can't imagine doing otherwise.

How did you lose it when you don’t recall using it.

Maybe you left it at home

No, I just want to know what the best course in Canada was at the time.

always return clubs...missing an iron from a set would tilt me to no end.

I lost a 7 iron that was never returned. It's possible someone may have put it in with their equipment meaning to return it but forgot. If they were out of towners it was too much of a hassle to send it back to the course.

If you didn't use the club, it could have been stolen.

If you pulled out a couple clubs and layed one down, it could have been out of sight for a long time and less likely to get turned in.

If you never had it that day, it could be on some other course or in a playing partners bag by accident.

I had a 50* wedge returned one time. It I left a number for them to call if it came back, and they did call. When I went there 2 days later they said someone came in and claimed it.

I wasn’t very happy about that. And when I talked to the pro about it, neither was he.

Still haven’t replaced it and there’s a distance gap there now.

I play a course that has the lost and found in the middle of the pro shop. They have some sign about not finding something you didn't lose.

Dropped headcover at another course. When I went back the next week they told me to look in gazebo. The gazebo? They have a table under the gazebo between the carts and the putting green and they dump all the found stuff on the table. There was a lot of stuff there. Including my headcover.

That does suck. Always turn it in -it is just the right thing to do. I always turn them in in addition to headcovers. I dropped my range finder once, someone was kind enough to turn it in. KARMA