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**urbalatte** · 06-22-2012, 11:59 PM

Day two of high school state finals on the 15th hole was by far the worst/stupidest thing I've ever done. After day one I was one shot off the lead and our team was leading. I was even on the round, down by one, going into the 15th with a couple possible birdie hole coming in and sprayed my drive a little right into the trees. I had a great line on the ball but none of the people who were following us saw it come down. After a couple minutes of searching my playing competitor said he found it. He knew the ball I was playing, a Titeilst 2 with our school logo on it. When I looked at the ball it was the same type and brand of the ball I was playing and the logo would have been down. Didn't think anything of it and hit a great second shot into the green to about 10 feet with the other player having about 20 feet for his birdie. I knew this was a great opportunity to get the shot back and be tied going into the last three holes. I marked my ball placed it in my towel washed it and put it in my pocket. He missed his putt but was a tap it par so I prepared myself for my putt. As I put the ball down to line it up my heart stopped and about threw up right on the spot. It was NOT my ball! After a couple of very hard swallows I stopped what I was doing and called over my competitor and the official who was with our group and told them I played the wrong ball and would have to go back for a drop or look for my ball. (At that point it didn't matter if I found my original or not) and take a two shot penalty. I only had about another minute to look for my ball and no luck. Went back to the original spot dropped and finished the hole with a double bogey. Three shots down with three to go and I mentally lost it. All in all hitting the wrong ball cost me two places finishing third and with such a great team we managed to win state. I remember this shot/moment like it was yesterday and it happened over 12 years ago. I'm sure if you took me back to that course I could place my ball in the exact spot as i had to play from that day. That's my worst day and hope it wasn't too much to read.

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Ouch man... that was very honorable of you to step up and be honest though. I bet some wouldn't think twice about going ahead and playing on with the ball that wasn't theirs.

06-22-2012, 11:59 PM	#19
urbalatte Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 679 Senior Member	Day two of high school state finals on the 15th hole was by far the worst/stupidest thing I've ever done. After day one I was one shot off the lead and our team was leading. I was even on the round, down by one, going into the 15th with a couple possible birdie hole coming in and sprayed my drive a little right into the trees. I had a great line on the ball but none of the people who were following us saw it come down. After a couple minutes of searching my playing competitor said he found it. He knew the ball I was playing, a Titeilst 2 with our school logo on it. When I looked at the ball it was the same type and brand of the ball I was playing and the logo would have been down. Didn't think anything of it and hit a great second shot into the green to about 10 feet with the other player having about 20 feet for his birdie. I knew this was a great opportunity to get the shot back and be tied going into the last three holes. I marked my ball placed it in my towel washed it and put it in my pocket. He missed his putt but was a tap it par so I prepared myself for my putt. As I put the ball down to line it up my heart stopped and about threw up right on the spot. It was NOT my ball! After a couple of very hard swallows I stopped what I was doing and called over my competitor and the official who was with our group and told them I played the wrong ball and would have to go back for a drop or look for my ball. (At that point it didn't matter if I found my original or not) and take a two shot penalty. I only had about another minute to look for my ball and no luck. Went back to the original spot dropped and finished the hole with a double bogey. Three shots down with three to go and I mentally lost it. All in all hitting the wrong ball cost me two places finishing third and with such a great team we managed to win state. I remember this shot/moment like it was yesterday and it happened over 12 years ago. I'm sure if you took me back to that course I could place my ball in the exact spot as i had to play from that day. That's my worst day and hope it wasn't too much to read. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Ouch man... that was very honorable of you to step up and be honest though. I bet some wouldn't think twice about going ahead and playing on with the ball that wasn't theirs.
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