I went out Sunday afternoon, played 18, and left about 5 p.m.. I get home and decide im gonna clean up my clubs, and see I don't have my 54* Spin Milled Vokey. I guess when I chipped up on the 18th green I left it in front of the green. I just bought it 3 weeks ago so I hurry and drive back to the course. It's about 6:30 p.m., and nobody has seen it and it hasn't been turned in to the Pro Shop. It is now Friday and I have called up to the Pro Shop a couple of times and still nothing.

This is the first time I have done this so it is really irritating me. But how many of you have done the same thing. Has is showed up eventually or should I consider it gone. I have already pretty much considered it gone, and I bought another one today. But its still the point that someone found that wedge on the 18th hole and decided they would just stick that in there bag and keep it.

Be sure to put your clubs,headcover in your path back to your bag or cart it always helps me.

I would return it, goes around and comes around.

Just last week, I made this mistake for the first time after using my 7i around the green. Didn't realize it was gone till 3 days later. Someone returned it to the club house, I wish I could thank them.

Granted, my club is not worth as much as a Vokey, but I'd like to think this person would have done the same either way. I would.

I'd return it to! I've done this before and thankfully someone returned it to the pro shop.

Everytime! If I find a club, no matter what kind or how expensive, I return it. It seems like I find a club or headcover about 20% of the time I am golfing. I always return them ASAP.

1 time i did put a club in my bag while walking and forgot to return it at the end of the round, I discovered it when I got home, I still drove back and dropped it off.

I need all the good golf Karma I can get!!

I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't be tempted... Especially something nice like a Vokey. It's almost like asking if you found a $100 bill on the green, would you turn it in to the clubhouse...

But, in the end, back to the club house to wait for your call.

I've never lost a club but I've turned in a bunch. I know I'd hate to lose one myself.

The most tempting happened to me recently. I found a brand new 58* vokey wedge-exactly like the one I'd been looking at buying. Even the correct bounce. I put it in my bag with the intent to return it looking up and wondering if this was some sort of a sick test. Saw a couple going backwards down another fairway and waved them down. They were happy to get it back.

The only clubs I've ever found were irons that were part of a set (SZ 7 iron, 735 cm 4 iron, etc.) and I would have no use for them in the first place. Regardless of what I found, I'd still return it. Lots of headcovers go missing around my course as well, more than clubs.

I have found many a club on the golf course, and returned every one of them.

Somebody kept my 9 iron, took me over a year to replace it.

To this day I would like to throw that so and so out a window.


Tom

Just returned a 52* mizuno Wednesday to an older gentleman. Seems to happen alot down here in south Florida with all of the old people playing (no offense). However my little brother did lose a custom made Left Handed 60* wedge down here and it never got returned, seemed odd as no one else would really have use for it.

Just this year i have turned in:- 2 Cell Phones, 2 Sand wedges, and an I10 7 Iron.

I would like to think the same would happen for me.

I have a couple buddy's that lost stuff on the course this year. One guy left a sand wedge on a hole and someone bagged it. Granted it was not an expensive club, but it still never showed up. The other guy lost his putter cover of f his taylormade putter last week and it has not got turned in. Its too bad. I've turned in several clubs this year and a couple towels. It is just a matter of integrity. I would hope someone would do the same thing, but unfortunatley there are a lot of slugs out there. I did loose a divot tool a couple weeks ago. A NFL seattle seahawks divot tool with a ball marker. I live in colts country, so there are not many seahawks fans here. Thought I might get lucky, but figured someone found it, saw what it was and pitched it in the lake.

I have in the past and will continue to turn in anything of value I find on the golf course. However, I have drooled over a couple of items while making my way to the lost & found.

I found about 10 clubs this year on my course. Alot of older gentleman play and tend to lay clubs down and forget. I return them all. Pretty easy to notice and make sure the right person gets their club.

Only thing i have found on the course and not turned in is a nice repair tool. I know if i turn that in, the first guy that hits the lost and found will be all over it.

If I find a club or headcover on the course I pick it up, usually the person is waiting at the 18th hole and I give it back to them and expect the same from anyone else.

My recollection is I have never left a club out on the course... but for most of my golfing days I walked and carried or used a push cart. Now-a-days, most of the places I play are pretty much carts mandatory. I have a 14 way bag and this helps making a spot check when putting my clubs back from the green.

It is tough to understand why someone would keep a club found on the course. Unless they are playing junk, can't afford any better, and have issues with ethical behavior. Currently, everything in my bag is there for a reason and if I had the slightest interest in playing something else I would have tried it already. But even back in the days when I could only afford to play with used or clones, it would have been inconceivable for me to put a stray club found on the course into my bag.

I have returned countless amounts of random things found on the golf course! From clubs, head covers, a couple cell phones, a couple pair of sunglasses, a full wallet with a ton of cash in it, car keys...etc.

The thing that stinks is I have left a cell phone in a cart, and went back 20 min. later to get it, and "no one had seen it". I have lost a wedge, and a couple towels, along with a head cover. Nothing has ever been returned!



*Sorry to hear about your wedge! Some people are just jerks.

I'd return it. I'm a lefty and have no need for a RH Vokey Wedge

I always return them.

One time about 8 years ago I left a wedge on the 15th hole at our club. I realized it on 17, but finished my round and went back to look for it. No one had seen it, a complete mystery. I knew all but one of these groups so I figured a grounds crew guy had got it.

Time went by and it never showed up. I had that wedge a long time, the grooves were worn, but I flat loved it. Best wedge I'd ever owned. I went through wedge after wedge after that, trying to find a replacement, but never really did.

Three years ago I sign up to play in a match play tournament and get slated against a guy I didn't know. On about the third hole, I grab his clubs for him as we walk off the green. When I do, I notice my old wedge (my initials were stamped on it).

The rest of the day wasn't real pleasant.

Left my Skycaddie on a par 3 tee box once. Realized it was gone 10 minutes later. Drove back in my cart and asked the group behind me. Knowing that they were playing the same tees as me. They looked at each other for a minute and then pulled out my Skycaddie. I thought about chewing them out since they were pretty obviously hoping that no one asked them about it. But it was hole 10 and I didn't want some idiots hitting into me after that.

They seemed like nice dudes, but after that I shot them dirty looks every chance I got. I always turn in lost stuff, but you never know what kind of jerks are out on the course right behind you!

Hope you drummed the guy.

I always turn in stuff. Most time I hand to a marshall and let them go back and deliver it.

I always turn in a club that I may find on the course. I know how happy I would be if I found that someone turned in a club I may have forgotten on the course.

Return them. Don't be that guy.

I also try not to lose them to remove the temptation from the bastages that would keep it.

Even though some POS took a wedge I forgot near a green, PING that was +1.25", 4* up I mean not many could even use it, the answer is YES EVERY TIME!!!!

The sad thing about the state of modern golf is that this would even be a question. When I started playing (in the 1960's) it wouldn't have been. Yeah .... golf was much more "elitist" ... but there was a fundamental, shared understanding.

That is now gone. Forget thinking someone will return a club, these days you need to put fake covers on your putter or it will get stolen from the bag drop. Alas.

Best advice I got from a pro (20 years ago) was this: NEVER leave a club of yours anywhere other than on the green. A wedge, 8i, etc. Forget leaving it on the path between the hole and your cart (as someone suggested) ... clubs disappear in the rough. Lay your wedges on the green ... so it is impossible to leave the green without it being obvious. I got in the habi ... and haven't ever lost a club.

I wish I could go back to the days of trusting the integrity of my fellow golfers ... but those days are gone.

I turn every club I find, I dont need anymore clubs.

In 24 years of playing golf, I have returned EVERY SINGLE golf club that I have found!!!!

I always return anything. I am so thankful for people that do. I have forgot clubs twice, and it sucks. Luckily they have both been turned in.

Without a doubt, I've returned every club I've found over the years, including a Scotty Cameron putter on the 18th green once. I've only lost one club over the years and it bothered the heck out of me for months that someone didn't turn it in.

Always, always, always.

On vacation I found an ALIEN sandwedge and tried to turn it in, but the guy in the proshop just laughed. He said only tourists play here and no one comes back to ask for a lost club and told me to keep it.

So now I'm stuck with an Alien wedge...

Just returned a hat today I found in the parking lot. I've returned club covers, wedges, and couple of irons. I always return anything I find. I would hope that if I lost a club someone would do the same and would return it.

I left a lob wedge once. It was a Warrior golf wedge that I got for S&H (about $6). Every since then, if I have a wedge on the green, I lay it across the flag stick after it is pulled. Cant forget it if it is laying on the flag stick.

Im hoping someone found it that knew me and it holding onto it until they see me, but not likely. Prolly some deadbeat decided to keep it. So needless to say im gonna be looking around for someone with a junk bag and a new vokey.

I picked up a sand wedge once on the eighth hole of my course and threw it in my bag to bring to the club house at the turn. walking down nine i see a guy driving backwards and wave him down to return it. He then proceeds to chew me out for picking up his club saying that I was going to keep it if he hadn't tracked me down (remember i flagged him down when i saw him driving backwards). I'm guessing he is the kind of guy who would have kept the club

I would return it. That's such a no brainer to me. I'd never consider keeping it. I have found clubs left behind and they either go to the pro shop, someone comes back looking for them, or I catch them on a teebox sometimes if it's thr group in front of me.

I have forgotten a 5w and didn't notice for a few days. I called the course and someone turned it in.

I have also forgotten/dropped the following:
Bolle sunglasses, never seen again
headcover, the group behind gave it to a marshal and he caught up to us and returned it.
a small towel, again the group behind picked it up and asked if one of us lost it when we met on a par 3 tee.
LL Bean sunglasses, those were returned to the pro shop.


One big difference is that everything I dropped except the Bolle sunglasses was not very valuable. The 5w was from an off the rack set of entry level Wilson clubs.

I can see a nice wedge like a Vokey not being returned because it's found by some @sshat that thinks 'Wow I have a Vokey now, spin milled too! I just saved $130!'

Hopefully you got the club back.

It is a test. It's a test of your ethical and moral fiber. The game of golf is 18 holes of that very same test. There are alot of penalties that need to be self imposed or there's no one nearby to see if you play the ball down. It's on a completely different level, so I'm not saying a foot wedge and theft are the even with each other, just that they are both on the same spectrum of human behavior.

Unfortunately too many people think "finders keepers" and equate clubs to finding a $100 bill....I work at a golf store and more than once have seen people come in to regrip their "found" clubs as happy as can be like they won the lottery....I want to tell them what *&^&@ they are, but that will just get a customer to complain. I guess karma will take care of it with all the bad shots they will get out of their new found club!!!!

First I would be pissed I screwed up....Then I would hope it was turned in....My mistake, my loss...I have found a number of lost clubs and have always turned them in..Have even forgotten that I found them and put them into my bag only to notice it when I got home and would call the course and return them latter in the week. Karma.....

I never return them. Their fault for leaving them, maybe they hit a bad shot and didn't want it anymore.







Just kidding. Just lost a Cleveland wedge last year and the pro shop actually laughed and said putters and wedges frequently don't get returned. I could of stolen a full set with tour bag of almost new Calloway clubs, over 1000 bucks worth, left by a drunk Irish guy back in 1995. I of course returned them but the kid I worked with suggested stealing them. I called him many names he didn't like....

wow! did you say anything to him or ask him where he got it?

A`person has to be a complete a$$hat to consider keeping a found stick. Do unto others...

As others have mentioned, leave the clubs ON the green, between you and the bag, cart...etc. Problem solved.

I have returned every single club I have found. No matter what it is or how expensive. Just a shame most people dont return stuff. I also put my clubs in my path on my way to my bag or cart so I don't forget them. Sorry to hear!

yep, ive only found 3 or 4 clubs and one headcover while playing and ive turned every one of them in...on the other hand, i once lost a really nice putter cover, and of course nobody turned it in

That's a loaded question (don't believe you'll get all honest answers on this one). Anyway, it depends on the club found.

Yes. absolutely.

this is what pisses me off. this question wouldn't even be asked BACK THEN where etiquette or common sense wouldn't have been questioned.

luckly there are still people who yell and ask if this putter is yours, to your delight that they were honest people, you got your putter back or that they turn it in to the pro shop.

I mean not surprised since you now have groups in front of you picking up ball.

I must admit that my answer is biased. My father forgets a club every other round somewhere on the course. He's already lost a bag which had his wallet and keys twice....

Fortunately, for the good grace and honor of other golfers, he's recovered every lost item.

I'm paying it forward on his behalf....

I, too, would be tempted, but will return clubs found. I know I left mine, I would hope that someone would return it. It actually happened to me twice, yesterday. Someone left a wedge on the 8th hole green and so I picked it up. On the 9th hole, I recognized the people that were ahead of us and asked if they lost a wedge, which they said did, so I returned it to them. Several years ago, I picked a wedge. I forgot to bring it to the clubhouse when I finished. So I called the clubhouse when I got home stating I found a club and left my number if anyone was looking for it. The golf course was too far of a drive to return a club and I was hoping that the person that lost it lived closer to me. Otherwise, if not, I would make a trip a drive to the course to bring it to the clubhouse. I called everyday for about a week to make sure nobody has called. The course staff was getting rather annoyed at me call them and said why not just drop it off, instead of calling and leaving your number. I had mentioned the course was about a 1.5 hour drive and I would if the owner would have called me so I could meet them somewhere. Sadly, I never got a call. It was a Cleveland wedge and I never liked it, so after about a year of having it hand, I turned it it for store credit.. I was a Nike whore, so I played Nike 53° and 58° wedge. I switched and am now playing Cleveland 52°, 56°, & 60° wedge and doing rather well with them. Maybe someone from above was trying to tell me to something.

so if somebody left a nice Ben Hogan wedge or putter on the green you wouldn't turn it in or ask the group ahead of you if it was theirs? yikes.