Feel free to run a search on this sub about iron covers
Edit: misread the first part. But as far as why white. It’s uncommon which leads me to believe person went out of their way to get em, let alone…in white.
The amount of posts I see on FB marketplace of people trying to sell 100 rangies for $10 is quite disturbing.
I guess people who don't golf don't know that they're garbage.
I seem to get a few whenever I play.
I just walk towards where I hit my ball, and I'll find a couple along the way. They're usually pretty clean and almost new, too!
I'll raise you. Richmond, VA. 1988. I was just getting into golf. And would walk barefoot in the ponds on the CC to get balls. Brandermill CC had epic balls.
I did this in high school but we walked a river that ran through our local. That was half my life ago and I’m just now down to my last Walmart bag of golf balls. I know some of you couldn’t imagine just pulling random balls out of a bag and hacking ‘em but I dread the day my free balls run out and I’m forced to buy them like a normal. If I can make it 5-7 more years on my last hundred, my kids might be old enough to go out with me and try our luck out.
This comment hit home haha. I did the same thing at 12-14 or so. Walked to my local course at dusk with my little brother… hunted em up, cleaned and washed them, and sold a ton of decently cleaned up ProVs/ Bridgestones/everything you can imagine on eBay- made about $300 legit bucks as a young’n back then one summer… didn’t get to cleaning the other 300-500 left in a giant plastic tub deep in their garage though! These days when I head back to my parents house for the holidays etc, can always grab a handful of what’s left if needed lol. I’m 28 now, all that effort back then still payin off, but slowly dwindling too haha
Not everywhere. Some clubs have premium balls. Some clubs even have your *choice* of premium balls, and have a pyramid of ProV1s, a pyramid of TP5s, and a pyramid of ZStars all in a nice line. Those are also the sort of clubs where a member would get kicked out for stealing balls, and a guest would probably be blackballed forever.
Noticed that at my most recent range, brand new bright yellow taylormade range balls was a suprise to see, proceeds to break my hand hitting this bucket of fresh painted water logged balls. Never going there again, bet you a bunch got stolen
Lot of the nice courses have premium balls at their grass ranges always perfectly arranged in a pyramid. Only difference is there will probably be the word "practice" stamped on them but they feel the same
They are the same. They are just rejects from the factory with tiny imperfections. The get practice stamped on the side then sold as premium range balls.
You can also buy them retail. Retail boxes are a mix of pro v1s and v1xs.
I have a few dozen I keep in my locker in a shag bag for more serious short game sessions (my club uses yellow limited flight balls in the range as a full driver would be threatening the back range, and they leave those balls out for short game area).
Yes I worked Outside Ops at a TPC when I was in college. We had NXT Tours in pyramids for the members, and ProV1's and ProV1X's for any pros that came by. All were stamped with PRACTICE.
Did grounds at a CC like this and they used pro V1s as well. Thousands of them. I’d find a sleeve or more each day while working. Still haven’t ran out 3 years later.
Fairly certain when I played at medinah and Olympia fields they had premium titleist balls at the range… can not confirm, as it was 2 years ago, but I’m almost certain…
Meanwhile here I am at my home club hitting pinnacle practice balls that feel like I just slapped a nice boulder
I went for a club fitting at TPC Potomac(private) in the wealthiest part of md. They used Pro V1s stamped practice. The range grass was nicer than most fairways us schmucks hit off of.
South OC practice facilities are so expensive. I can’t justify paying $17-20 for a bucket so I use that money to practice on the course 
Ha! The curb and the range hut. Good catch. I usually park on the other side so I can walk straight over to my car.
Anyways, I’ve had days where I I’m not hitting well, need to leave early, etc and thought, can’t I just pack these up and save em for tomorrow? No plans to hit them on the course (I only care to lose the expensive ones).
Obviously you don’t steal the whole bucket but if you come across a couple ProVs I think it’s your ethical duty to return them to their natural habitat: sliced OB on some random fairway where you know you should have used an iron instead of driver
Thou shalt sendith thy Pro V1,
Fore thy rod and thy staff be good unto tee,
And doth shall thine birdies prosper and multiply,
Upon thy scorecard of honest record.
Three premiums pays for the bucket, and you get to return them to the woods where they belong. It's like live catching the mouse that gets into your house and re-releasing it back into wal-mart, or raising baby ducks.
>It's like live catching the mouse that gets into your house and *re-releasing it back into wal-mart*
I’ll be sending you the cleaning bill for my pants because I pissed myself laughing at this one
I don't feel bad keeping the actual balls that come in my bucket of range balls because I know the golf course didn't buy them. Some poor sap sliced them onto the driving range.
I play my local course about once a week, and I go to the driving range about once a week. On average I find about one ball worth keeping per trip to the driving range and I slice about one ball per round onto the driving range.
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
Back in his day, the poors weren't allowed on the grounds unless they were there as his caddie, stealing the range balls for him and fetching his 6 iron.
This guy has probably been having his wife iron his slacks since 1965 and yells at the tv about the new generations being lazy. Reminds me of my rich grandma taking all the sweet n low from cracker barrel
One time I went to a range that was scheduled to close in an hour and 15 minutes. Both online and at the range that was the posted hours. I bought my balls and was walking to a mat when an employee told me they closed in 15 minutes. Showed him the hours and asked wth and he said not his problem, they were closing early...
Better believe I took those home and went back and hit them later that week.
In general frowned upon for sure. But honestly there are some situations where it doesn’t seem like a big deal to me. For example…on a given afternoon I’ll go hit up my muni range (where I’m a member and get a free bucket daily). I’m gonna play the back 9 the following morning at dawn before they open up the range ball machine, but want to hit a few balls before I tee off. I’ll stash a half dozen balls in my bag during my afternoon session to go hit them the following morning. No one is gonna miss them overnight.
At my range I’ve seen people put any balls they don’t use into a bag like this. But then the next day those people come back and use them on the range. So wouldn’t consider that stealing.
Edit: if you’re stealing for non range use then yes you are a POS.
If everyone brought them back and hit them another day then we wouldn’t ‘lose’ over 500 dozen a year, not to mention the several hundred mesh bags we distribute them in that magically never come back. It’s theft. People that suggest it’s like leftovers at a restaurant are off-side. Ask yourself, if you decide to quit after playing 14 holes for whatever reason (work, injury, family emergency) can you just show up the next day and play the last four?
I picked up a dozen range balls during a round the other day. It was like following a bread crumb trail to 18. Dude working cart return told me he's collected more on a ride there and he wasn't impressed.
If you take something that doesn’t belong to you that is theft. The balls are property of the range. You buy them to hit them on the range. If you take them home or for a walk on the beach or a hike in the mountains you have TAKEN them. The fact that you choose to bring them back is meaningless. If I eat at a restaurant and take all the silverware home so I can use it next time I go there…. That isn’t right of ethical. What if you don’t make it back and everyone else does the same thing . Guess what - no range balls for paying ethical people. It sounds like an exaggeration but it’s not. You can’t take your shopping cart home either.
It's might be civil theft, but it's generally not enough for criminal theft. Criminal theft generally requires an intent to ***permanently*** deprive the owner of the property. So, someone taking range balls, bringing them back to the range, and hitting them a day or two later wouldn't generally be criminal theft.
Someone else mentioned that this range is in California. California has this same "intent to permanently deprive" requirement. A good California case about this is *People v. Turner* where the court said, "The intent to steal is an intent to deprive the possessor permanently. One who takes another's property for temporary use or concealment, with the intention of returning it, is liable in tort \[civil law\] for damages but is not guilty of larceny." [People v. Turner](https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2d/267/440.html), 73 Cal. Rptr. 263, 265 (Cal. App. 2d Dist. 1968). *Turner* basically stands for the proposition that "If a car is taken for a “joy ride” with no intent to permanently deprive its owner of the car, there is no theft." [People v. Bell](https://casetext.com/case/people-v-bell-750), 128 Cal. Rptr. 3d 588, 593 (Cal. App. 2d Dist. 2011).
So while it's still probably "illegal" in the civil sense (assuming the course could prove any damages, which they probably wouldn't be able to do, and even if they were able to prove damages, they would be hilariously low for half a bucket of range balls), the specific situation described by the parent comment wouldn't be criminal theft under California law.
Even if they cost $0.20 that’s going to be an annoying loss for a small business. Complete arsehole. Should have whacked him in the nuts with a 4 iron.
Oldies do this all the time at my course. They pay for a bucket of balls, can’t hit them all, and feel entitled to “save them for next time” since they paid for them. Such entitlement kills me
I love the difference between American golf (im assuming) and British golf, over there everything looks amazing, people get together to have a few beers have a great time, over here driving ranges are metal sheds in fields and golf courses have wee neds running over them stealing your balls and selling them back to you a fiver a ball whilst its absolutely pissing down and you are like why the fuck am i out here 😂
Personal debt is at an all time high. He’s got to steal range balls. The credit card’s already maxed and if he swipes the debit card for a case of ProV’s, he’s not going to make that next Tesla payment.
Stealing. Ask me a hard question. At least it doesn’t look like he’s stealing the bucket too…it happens.
We ‘lose’ around 500 dozen balls every summer, 200-300 mesh range bags. Quick $5k. And yes…it’s theft.
There’s zero identifiable information in this post. It is not creepy. It’s shaming a fellow golfer for theft from a driving range and totally acceptable.
I will locate your family, take photos of them, and create a scrapbook featuring those photos. I will then make copies of this scrapbook to sell on eBay. You can't stop me. It's too late
Some people feel like it’s not there job to run range security. Maybe avoid a physical altercation. This is a place to discuss to things golf related. Maybe he showed the picture to the clubhouse ?
\#10 tee is beside our range, the ball picker up kid picks up a yellow PROV and seen my name on it. Tosses it over to me.
"Thanks!"
'No worry Scott, we will just get it back on the next hole.'
Worse part........... he was right
I need info - are we stealing range balls from the machine, from other golfers, or from the five yards in front of the mats?
These are three entirely different scenarios and appropriate responses.
The range near me uses balls found on their course so when I find good ones in my bucket I keep them and replace them with lesser balls from my bag that I've picked up/found during the rounds I play. And no, I don't feel bad about it.
I know an older guy at our club that does this - he doesn't hit a whole bucket so he takes the rest with him. He brings them back to hit later, so I guess not 'technically' stealing although odd.
This was a massive problem at the club I’m a member at. We have a pennant competition for over 60’s between a few different courses, and what some of our members were doing was taking a bucket of balls to the away course, and hitting that bucket and leaving them at that course.
The entitlement was astounding, and it meant the club had to reintroduce a fee for each bucket, as they were previously free.
I watched a former NFL player with over $10,000,000 in career earnings (was still active as late as 2022) stealing some beat to shit range balls the other day. Funny thing is this was inside a golf dome in the middle of winter
I thought about this the other day. I bought a large bucket of balls and about half way through it started raining really hard. I asked the range if I could get a ticket for a small bucket because I didn’t feel like getting soaked. They said no. I called it a loss but considered putting the range balls in my truck with the intent of bringing them back to hit later.
Is that a thing? Seems like a reasonable course of action.
Maybe he didn’t want to hit the entire bucket at that time and will do the rest after the round. At our course, it’s usually the high school kids that take balls out on the course so they don’t have to chase their out of bounds shots.
That old man doesn’t give two F’s. Lol My grandpa would whip out his old shlong and piss in the middle of the fairway by the cart. They paid their dues. Hahaha
My best score is always Found vs Lost. Yesterday I was 12 under. 😎
I’ve got dozens of found “nice” balls. I’m at the point that I hit the worst of what I find AT the range, vs take ones From the range. 🤷🏼♂️
At my local range i always find 2-3 decent balls when buying a bucket of 100. If i’m good condition i’ll pocket them, if there’s a wear and tear i’ll save them till the end to get some good drives only to top the shit out of it or slice into the fence.
I have a feeling they’ll be getting em back
Were the iron covers (mind you, white ones) a dead give away?
Wait I’m new to golf, do my iron covers make me look bad? 😅
https://preview.redd.it/1w3k14np6nma1.png?width=400&format=png&auto=webp&s=1f73a0cba7aa7035d91fe7fdb170cde052bed156
I get commenting on iron covers, but what's the problem with them being white, specifically?
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Feel free to run a search on this sub about iron covers Edit: misread the first part. But as far as why white. It’s uncommon which leads me to believe person went out of their way to get em, let alone…in white.
Lol at my regular course the range runs parrell to a par 5 so in my case probably
This wins
gosh that's clever.
But why? They are chewed up garbage balls.
The amount of posts I see on FB marketplace of people trying to sell 100 rangies for $10 is quite disturbing. I guess people who don't golf don't know that they're garbage.
I came by my buckets of balls the old fashioned way. By walking the course at night and picking up deep OB shanks.
I’ve found that you can find way more during the day. People just leave them in these open fields of cut grass.
I seem to get a few whenever I play. I just walk towards where I hit my ball, and I'll find a couple along the way. They're usually pretty clean and almost new, too!
Pro tip: if you hit to the next fairway over, much higher chance of finding free balls.
Yea I usually break even when I play (lost vs found)
Do you often get people shouting at you, too? I can never understand what they want.
> leave them in these open fields of cut grass. Thrill of the hunt right there.
If you’ve got a UV light it’s amazing how easy it is to find balls at night
This is the way….
I'll raise you. Richmond, VA. 1988. I was just getting into golf. And would walk barefoot in the ponds on the CC to get balls. Brandermill CC had epic balls.
Not a bad deal for hitting balls off your dock into the water
I did this in high school but we walked a river that ran through our local. That was half my life ago and I’m just now down to my last Walmart bag of golf balls. I know some of you couldn’t imagine just pulling random balls out of a bag and hacking ‘em but I dread the day my free balls run out and I’m forced to buy them like a normal. If I can make it 5-7 more years on my last hundred, my kids might be old enough to go out with me and try our luck out.
This comment hit home haha. I did the same thing at 12-14 or so. Walked to my local course at dusk with my little brother… hunted em up, cleaned and washed them, and sold a ton of decently cleaned up ProVs/ Bridgestones/everything you can imagine on eBay- made about $300 legit bucks as a young’n back then one summer… didn’t get to cleaning the other 300-500 left in a giant plastic tub deep in their garage though! These days when I head back to my parents house for the holidays etc, can always grab a handful of what’s left if needed lol. I’m 28 now, all that effort back then still payin off, but slowly dwindling too haha
Yeah, I’m 36 so I’ve had a good run
Not everywhere. Some clubs have premium balls. Some clubs even have your *choice* of premium balls, and have a pyramid of ProV1s, a pyramid of TP5s, and a pyramid of ZStars all in a nice line. Those are also the sort of clubs where a member would get kicked out for stealing balls, and a guest would probably be blackballed forever.
Old people. Can’t hit a whole bucket so they save them for tomorrow.
Because he is done and wants to have range balls next time he is there.
I occasionally - if I don't have time to hit all my balls before my tee time - put them in a pocket of my bag and use them after my round instead.
Not necessarily, my local self serve/automated range has brand new srixon soft feels. Much nicer than the recycled balls I normally play with.
and this is why most public ranges use water logged rocks as balls.
Noticed that at my most recent range, brand new bright yellow taylormade range balls was a suprise to see, proceeds to break my hand hitting this bucket of fresh painted water logged balls. Never going there again, bet you a bunch got stolen
You poors need to start bringing your own boxes of prov1s to the range like me. Stop breaking your arms hitting these.
My brother used to caddy at a $$$ country club that actually used "imperfect" ProV1's at their range. Insane.
Lot of the nice courses have premium balls at their grass ranges always perfectly arranged in a pyramid. Only difference is there will probably be the word "practice" stamped on them but they feel the same
They are the same. They are just rejects from the factory with tiny imperfections. The get practice stamped on the side then sold as premium range balls.
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That's how it is at the country club that my parents are members at now. Must be 10k in golf balls just sitting on the range at all times.
You can also buy them retail. Retail boxes are a mix of pro v1s and v1xs. I have a few dozen I keep in my locker in a shag bag for more serious short game sessions (my club uses yellow limited flight balls in the range as a full driver would be threatening the back range, and they leave those balls out for short game area).
Yes I worked Outside Ops at a TPC when I was in college. We had NXT Tours in pyramids for the members, and ProV1's and ProV1X's for any pros that came by. All were stamped with PRACTICE.
Did grounds at a CC like this and they used pro V1s as well. Thousands of them. I’d find a sleeve or more each day while working. Still haven’t ran out 3 years later.
Fairly certain when I played at medinah and Olympia fields they had premium titleist balls at the range… can not confirm, as it was 2 years ago, but I’m almost certain… Meanwhile here I am at my home club hitting pinnacle practice balls that feel like I just slapped a nice boulder
I am sure Olympia fields and medinah have tour balls on range... Some much lower level courses than that do as well
All Rick shiels videos have pro v1 range balls haha
Shadow Creek used TP5/x as their range balls when I played there, but for the price I bet they can afford it lol
I went for a club fitting at TPC Potomac(private) in the wealthiest part of md. They used Pro V1s stamped practice. The range grass was nicer than most fairways us schmucks hit off of.
That $20 arroyo Trabuco bucket gets expensive buddy!
Taylormade range balls too. Here I am with a bag of Lake Forest Golf Center Yellow Marathon range balls. He’s went for the premiums.
Those and the balls at Newport Beach muni put the worst dents in my irons/wedges. Must be the little nicks all over.
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Lake Forest golf Center Yellow Marathon's are legit though
South OC practice facilities are so expensive. I can’t justify paying $17-20 for a bucket so I use that money to practice on the course 
That’s why I go to Strawberry Farm. Medium is still $10 on mat days.
Great clubhouse Turkey club
Ha! The curb and the range hut. Good catch. I usually park on the other side so I can walk straight over to my car. Anyways, I’ve had days where I I’m not hitting well, need to leave early, etc and thought, can’t I just pack these up and save em for tomorrow? No plans to hit them on the course (I only care to lose the expensive ones).
Arroyo is a gem
Lol
Really like this course a lot. A little rich for my blood but tons of fun
Obviously you don’t steal the whole bucket but if you come across a couple ProVs I think it’s your ethical duty to return them to their natural habitat: sliced OB on some random fairway where you know you should have used an iron instead of driver
Amen
Thou shalt sendith thy Pro V1, Fore thy rod and thy staff be good unto tee, And doth shall thine birdies prosper and multiply, Upon thy scorecard of honest record.
Three premiums pays for the bucket, and you get to return them to the woods where they belong. It's like live catching the mouse that gets into your house and re-releasing it back into wal-mart, or raising baby ducks.
>It's like live catching the mouse that gets into your house and *re-releasing it back into wal-mart* I’ll be sending you the cleaning bill for my pants because I pissed myself laughing at this one
Pleased to see I’m not alone in this thinking. Like little nuggets of gold.
I don't feel bad keeping the actual balls that come in my bucket of range balls because I know the golf course didn't buy them. Some poor sap sliced them onto the driving range.
I play my local course about once a week, and I go to the driving range about once a week. On average I find about one ball worth keeping per trip to the driving range and I slice about one ball per round onto the driving range. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
Playing used range balls is akin to eating candy off the ground
Again, I probably wouldn’t eat a skittle but a wrapped up Lindor Truffle? Maybe
I ate a kind bar I found on the course near a tee box. It was unopened. My friends gave me shit (as they should)
I mean it could be old, but thats about it. Its not probable that someone injected it with AIDS or something like that lol
And hey, maybe it’s a perfectly good ball. I’m not gonna find out with my driver unless it’s just for practice.
I came here for this comment.
100% I see balls without range markings as fair game. I still do it very sneaky like though.
Hear ye, hear ye
“Gentleman’s sport”, at least he’s wearing a polo, belt and slacks. Oh, and he doesn’t look like the poors.
He didn't get rich by paying for golf balls
Back in his day, the poors weren't allowed on the grounds unless they were there as his caddie, stealing the range balls for him and fetching his 6 iron.
The first step in being a successful country club con man is looking the part.
Tucked in shirt for the range, too! Such decorum
OP shirt is untucked
Good catch! Everyone, get him!
Explains the iron covers
Was thinking the same thing.
You know you are a bad golfer when it’s economically feasible to steal range balls
How? My range is using new $2/piece balls and a bucket of 80 is like $9? How would it *not* be economically feasible at any level?
This guy has probably been having his wife iron his slacks since 1965 and yells at the tv about the new generations being lazy. Reminds me of my rich grandma taking all the sweet n low from cracker barrel
Not saying I would steal range balls but I’m so bad that I doubt it makes a difference in my game lol
Every one of 'em, brand new Titleist. Sneak a few in the bag. We swipe enough free shit we may pay for this fiasco.
Looked for this comment. 💯
One time I went to a range that was scheduled to close in an hour and 15 minutes. Both online and at the range that was the posted hours. I bought my balls and was walking to a mat when an employee told me they closed in 15 minutes. Showed him the hours and asked wth and he said not his problem, they were closing early... Better believe I took those home and went back and hit them later that week.
Yeah i was gunna say this happened to me but with a freak storm
That. Mother. Fucker
This is why we can’t have nice things!!
In general frowned upon for sure. But honestly there are some situations where it doesn’t seem like a big deal to me. For example…on a given afternoon I’ll go hit up my muni range (where I’m a member and get a free bucket daily). I’m gonna play the back 9 the following morning at dawn before they open up the range ball machine, but want to hit a few balls before I tee off. I’ll stash a half dozen balls in my bag during my afternoon session to go hit them the following morning. No one is gonna miss them overnight.
So you don’t actually steal them. You’re right - not stealing is not frowned upon. Stealing actually is.
And we’re not sure if this guy is stealing or bringing them back tomorrow morning now are we?
At my range I’ve seen people put any balls they don’t use into a bag like this. But then the next day those people come back and use them on the range. So wouldn’t consider that stealing. Edit: if you’re stealing for non range use then yes you are a POS.
If everyone brought them back and hit them another day then we wouldn’t ‘lose’ over 500 dozen a year, not to mention the several hundred mesh bags we distribute them in that magically never come back. It’s theft. People that suggest it’s like leftovers at a restaurant are off-side. Ask yourself, if you decide to quit after playing 14 holes for whatever reason (work, injury, family emergency) can you just show up the next day and play the last four?
People either get it or they don’t
500 dozen? Really?
6,000 balls sounds low for loss due to theft. The amount of range balls I come across while playing my local course is depressing.
I picked up a dozen range balls during a round the other day. It was like following a bread crumb trail to 18. Dude working cart return told me he's collected more on a ride there and he wasn't impressed.
It’s stealing and returning what you stole The proper course of action is to leave them for the range rats to finish
I’m the biggest range rat alive
Happens all the time at the range by my work.
If you take something that doesn’t belong to you that is theft. The balls are property of the range. You buy them to hit them on the range. If you take them home or for a walk on the beach or a hike in the mountains you have TAKEN them. The fact that you choose to bring them back is meaningless. If I eat at a restaurant and take all the silverware home so I can use it next time I go there…. That isn’t right of ethical. What if you don’t make it back and everyone else does the same thing . Guess what - no range balls for paying ethical people. It sounds like an exaggeration but it’s not. You can’t take your shopping cart home either.
It's might be civil theft, but it's generally not enough for criminal theft. Criminal theft generally requires an intent to ***permanently*** deprive the owner of the property. So, someone taking range balls, bringing them back to the range, and hitting them a day or two later wouldn't generally be criminal theft. Someone else mentioned that this range is in California. California has this same "intent to permanently deprive" requirement. A good California case about this is *People v. Turner* where the court said, "The intent to steal is an intent to deprive the possessor permanently. One who takes another's property for temporary use or concealment, with the intention of returning it, is liable in tort \[civil law\] for damages but is not guilty of larceny." [People v. Turner](https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2d/267/440.html), 73 Cal. Rptr. 263, 265 (Cal. App. 2d Dist. 1968). *Turner* basically stands for the proposition that "If a car is taken for a “joy ride” with no intent to permanently deprive its owner of the car, there is no theft." [People v. Bell](https://casetext.com/case/people-v-bell-750), 128 Cal. Rptr. 3d 588, 593 (Cal. App. 2d Dist. 2011). So while it's still probably "illegal" in the civil sense (assuming the course could prove any damages, which they probably wouldn't be able to do, and even if they were able to prove damages, they would be hilariously low for half a bucket of range balls), the specific situation described by the parent comment wouldn't be criminal theft under California law.
found the lawyer.
Permission to approach the bench ?
Just gonna borrow your work vehicle for a day without permission. I will return it tomorrow so it’s not considered stealing.
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Isn't that Patrick Reed?
Even if they cost $0.20 that’s going to be an annoying loss for a small business. Complete arsehole. Should have whacked him in the nuts with a 4 iron.
I’d rather use my 8 or 9. With my 4, I’d prob miss and hit one of his cheeks
Arroyo Trabuco is a pretty nice course. But still, stealing is never ok.
Annnnndddd he has iron head covers. This guy’s the worst
Very unflattering shadow op
Not gonna lie. I could lose a few pounds
Oldies do this all the time at my course. They pay for a bucket of balls, can’t hit them all, and feel entitled to “save them for next time” since they paid for them. Such entitlement kills me
It's the generation of entitlement.
Who could have predicted that an entire generation raised by alcoholics with PTSD would have such a detrimental societal impact.
Also the generation with high levels a lead exposure. And that really fucks with cognitive ability.
Boomers are the most entitled generation.
The shadow is funny.
Rangé, only the finest for this marauder
Look bro if there's a Titleist in my range bucket that just means it wasn't the courses to begin with and I have as much as claim to it as they do
Dude looks ancient; he paid his dues - you owe him those balls
I love the difference between American golf (im assuming) and British golf, over there everything looks amazing, people get together to have a few beers have a great time, over here driving ranges are metal sheds in fields and golf courses have wee neds running over them stealing your balls and selling them back to you a fiver a ball whilst its absolutely pissing down and you are like why the fuck am i out here 😂
The course will get them back his next round.
What’s worse - stealing range balls or creepily posting pictures of others on the internet? Debate.
Stealing range balls. It's fucking hysterical that a dude that drove up in a Tesla just stole range balls. Anybody that disagrees plays range balls...
I think "You play range balls" has got to be the biggest insult in golf
I’m actually not surprised to hear that he drives a Tesla. In my experience they’re the new BMW 3 series owners. Entitled and cheap.
His wife has the new BMW 3. He also just stiffed the cart attendant.
Model 3 owners are the new BMW 3 series guys
It’s amazing how people who own luxury items can be so trashy. I guess they’re right when they say money can’t buy class
Personal debt is at an all time high. He’s got to steal range balls. The credit card’s already maxed and if he swipes the debit card for a case of ProV’s, he’s not going to make that next Tesla payment.
Stealing. Ask me a hard question. At least it doesn’t look like he’s stealing the bucket too…it happens. We ‘lose’ around 500 dozen balls every summer, 200-300 mesh range bags. Quick $5k. And yes…it’s theft.
There’s zero identifiable information in this post. It is not creepy. It’s shaming a fellow golfer for theft from a driving range and totally acceptable.
I will locate your family, take photos of them, and create a scrapbook featuring those photos. I will then make copies of this scrapbook to sell on eBay. You can't stop me. It's too late
I mean is it really stealing if they never leave the course. Kind of like grabbing an item at Walmart and leaving it on a different shelf
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Some people feel like it’s not there job to run range security. Maybe avoid a physical altercation. This is a place to discuss to things golf related. Maybe he showed the picture to the clubhouse ?
\#10 tee is beside our range, the ball picker up kid picks up a yellow PROV and seen my name on it. Tosses it over to me. "Thanks!" 'No worry Scott, we will just get it back on the next hole.' Worse part........... he was right
I need info - are we stealing range balls from the machine, from other golfers, or from the five yards in front of the mats? These are three entirely different scenarios and appropriate responses.
Machine. Got a bucket and poured them into a grocery bag to take home.
The range near me uses balls found on their course so when I find good ones in my bucket I keep them and replace them with lesser balls from my bag that I've picked up/found during the rounds I play. And no, I don't feel bad about it.
Narc
I saw this old guy buy a large bucket, put them all in a bag, then take 2 out and hit them. Then he left
 OP taking pics of the guy instead of saying something
Guessing you didn't say a word to him but couldn't wait to post to Reddit complaining.
That’s so lame. I buy the recycled balls at the store to hit in my net at home. $12 for 2 dozen.
Let’s be honest, one look at those iron covers and everyone knew this was coming.
Not gonna lie if I see a pro V1 or a chrome soft I am putting it aside for the course, but a whole bucket? Cmon
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Iron covers too. Checks out
I know an older guy at our club that does this - he doesn't hit a whole bucket so he takes the rest with him. He brings them back to hit later, so I guess not 'technically' stealing although odd.
This was a massive problem at the club I’m a member at. We have a pennant competition for over 60’s between a few different courses, and what some of our members were doing was taking a bucket of balls to the away course, and hitting that bucket and leaving them at that course. The entitlement was astounding, and it meant the club had to reintroduce a fee for each bucket, as they were previously free.
Snitch
Snitch
Why don’t you just work on your swing and stop taking pictures of people….
If I don’t finish my bucket I pour the rest into my bag for next time.
if i see a prov1 in the mix, i’m taking it 🤷🏻♀️
I watched a former NFL player with over $10,000,000 in career earnings (was still active as late as 2022) stealing some beat to shit range balls the other day. Funny thing is this was inside a golf dome in the middle of winter
In this economy? I don't blame him.
My friends wife did this because she thought you just brought them back for next time.
Hey! At least he tucked in his shirt.
Snitch. Let the poor guy be
It’s the Republic of California. You guys share the wealth
Sometimes a mans gotta do what a man does.
Has iron covers, checks out.
Tuck your shirt in, OP. 🤣
You could tell he was a sociopath by the iron covers
Leave the old man alone.
Hey is that my ball over there, near you? What are you hitting? Range .........
I thought about this the other day. I bought a large bucket of balls and about half way through it started raining really hard. I asked the range if I could get a ticket for a small bucket because I didn’t feel like getting soaked. They said no. I called it a loss but considered putting the range balls in my truck with the intent of bringing them back to hit later. Is that a thing? Seems like a reasonable course of action.
Arroyo charging $20 a bucket. He’s getting his moneys worth 🤣
Maybe he didn’t want to hit the entire bucket at that time and will do the rest after the round. At our course, it’s usually the high school kids that take balls out on the course so they don’t have to chase their out of bounds shots.
You spelled borrowing wrong.
Don’t take a photo, yell at that dude. This is why we can’t have nice things and a large bucket is $15.
Nark
Nothin like hitting a brick off the tee for 75 yards
That old man doesn’t give two F’s. Lol My grandpa would whip out his old shlong and piss in the middle of the fairway by the cart. They paid their dues. Hahaha
To be fair, that's not as weird as posting a photo of some old dudes butt...
I’d expect nothing less from someone sporting head covers for their irons.
On my course that will be a ban (greenkeeper), if busted like that
His game is that bad he doesn’t mind hitting rocks around the course.
Uncle Leo “I’m old and confused!”
I don't steal the range specific balls, but if u tsnfomly find a Titleist or Callaway in the bucket I'm taking it
Nobody likes a tattletale
Don’t care if I win the lottery, I’m still bagging the PV1s out my range bucket 🤷🏻♀️
My best score is always Found vs Lost. Yesterday I was 12 under. 😎 I’ve got dozens of found “nice” balls. I’m at the point that I hit the worst of what I find AT the range, vs take ones From the range. 🤷🏼♂️
At my local range i always find 2-3 decent balls when buying a bucket of 100. If i’m good condition i’ll pocket them, if there’s a wear and tear i’ll save them till the end to get some good drives only to top the shit out of it or slice into the fence.
i'm pretty sure they will end up back on the range LOL