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Originally Posted by John_W
If you had bought a dozen new titleist balls and put them on your putting green scattered about like on a pool table, and someone came and took one, that would be stealing. However, you said you found the ball in your yard after someone's apparent errant shot. You left it there to use to future practice. Used golf balls, I must have a couple of hundred in the garage, I see them and don't pick up probably five to ten in an average round of 18 holes. I don't sweat used golf balls. Move on and consider a lesson learned, if you want to keep a used ball, pick it up and put it away. Used golf balls come and go.
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I don't think the op's concern was the loss of a golf ball. The man, without the property owner's permission, walked 20-25 feet on to the op's property and on to a private putting green to take or retrieve a golf ball. That's trespassing. That's a violation of golf course etiquette in The Villages and elsewhere. At best it was a selfish and disrespectful act.