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What does “OB” mean? ��

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Originally Posted by Mel6054 (Post 1884838)

What does “OB” mean? ��

Here's a hint------look at the title of this thread:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

If you go onto someone’s property to get a golf ball you are trespassing. Rules are: don’t go onto someone else’s property, ball is lost, take the penalty.

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Originally Posted by Papa_lecki (Post 1884610)

What is the etiquette if you hit a ball “out of bounds” and it lands in someone’s yard? do you leave it or go and grab it? Is having some random balls getting picked up from your yard part of the price of living on the golf course?

If you're bad enough to hit it into a yard then you deserve to lose the ball. Also, depends if the owner has a shotgun.

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Originally Posted by Miriam2940 (Post 1884847)

If you go onto someone’s property to get a golf ball you are trespassing. Rules are: don’t go onto someone else’s property, ball is lost, take the penalty.

Technically not lost, it's already OB. Choices are go back to the tee hitting 3 or drop it within 1 club length of the rough on the fairway at an equidistant point, hitting 4

If I can see it I am going to get it. It’s my ball. I paid for it and paid good money to play on the grass next to your grass! 😀

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Originally Posted by thevillages2013 (Post 1884853)

If I can see it I am going to get it. It’s my ball. I paid for it and paid good money to play on the grass next to your grass! 😀

But the homeowner paid more for his grass (and maintenance thereof) than you did for your golf ball.

If it’s a Titleist pro-v or AVC, I’m going in.

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Originally Posted by retiredguy123 (Post 1884661)

My shots always go down the center of the fairway.

So, this is a non-issue.

When you only hit the ball 20-30 yards, it almost always stays in the fairway.

Removing/retrieving a lost ball should be the same whether the homeowner has to walk on the same turf to lift the ball or the golfer, as long as you show total respect for the plants and shrubs, I don't see why there should be a problem.

Where one should not "play" his next shot. It has nothing to do with retrieving something. In some major tournaments, O.B. may be another fairway on the same golf course.

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Originally Posted by Papa_lecki (Post 1884610)

I live on a golf course. I really dont care if a golfer walks on my lawn to get his golf ball. What's the big deal ?

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Originally Posted by John_W (Post 1884749)

About five years ago playing Tally Ho, that's the nine across from the Glenview Club House. We were on the 9th hole, that's the hole with a huge oak tree right in the middle of the fairway about 210 yards from the white tees. We moved up to our drives and one of the players was in in the left rough and we were looking for his ball. The rough is not very wide before you reach the homes, which is built in trouble since the oak tree eliminates the middle of the fairway.

We didn't even talk to the homeowner or go in his yard, but this guy comes out and said. I just spent $10,000 for this birdcage and you all better not hit it. Well, if were going hit it, we would of hit it back when were on the tee. The guy obviously should of not have bought a home on the golf course if he's going to be standing out there yelling at every golfer to go by. Anyway, I've played it about 15 times since and never seen him again.

Good example of the 1%'r.
Not happy with life.
Making a mountain out of an ant hill.

I like the "guy" on Bonifay that has a sign, "Please feel free to retrieve your ball".

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Originally Posted by noslices1 (Post 1884860)

When you only hit the ball 20-30 yards, it almost always stays in the fairway.

Ouch!!

I don't play golf and do not plan to learn. However, if I did and I hit the ball into someone's property, I would ask the property owner if I could retrieve the ball. If there's no one home, I'd leave it and take the penalty. That is called RESPECT! Something that is lacking more and more in society. It's just a ball, folks.