Lost 7 iron

Fellow golfers, please tell me that there are some out there that have done something as stupid as I did two weeks ago while playing a round of January golf. Here’s the situation; I’m a walker when I play golf and only drive when I’m told to. This was a Saturday round of golf and we had to drive the course for place of play. Although it was cart path only. When are people going to realize that it probably takes longer to play a round of golf driving a cart when it’s cart path only?

Well when it’s cart path only and you don’t have any idea what the yardage is from where your ball is, proper etiquette is to bring a few clubs with you so you don’t have to trudge back to the cart because you don’t have the correct club for the distance, thus holding up people even longer than cart path only golf causes to begin with.

In my haste to get back to my cart after one of my spectacular shots (I had no spectacular shots that Saturday), I simply left my 7 iron on the course. I didn’t realize it until later that evening after a few drinks and dinner while cleaning my clubs. I went to the course the very next morning and checked in every single spot I hit a shot from and the 7 iron was nowhere to be found. Over the next 10 days I called the course daily, hoping someone would turn it in and to this point no one has and I’ve already ordered a new one.

Let me just say this, yes I’m an idiot but that is terrible golf etiquette to not return a club that isn’t yours. Especially one that’s part of a set. Hey jerk, what the hell are you going to do with another 7 iron? I’m not going to leave more clubs out there for you so you can complete the set.
Ok, a brand new driver, a wedge, or even a putter I could see RARELY getting lifted. Which even if you do that, you’re a douche bag and belong playing a sport where there’s no honor or integrity.

So I continue on, with a new 7 iron that I still haven’t received yet. My only hope for this guy’s soul is he put it in his bag, left early and forgot to bring it up to the pro shop and doesn’t even realize it’s in his bag. Which means in March I’ll get a call from the golf course saying they have it.

If I never get a call from the course with the club being returned, that is terrible karma for the poor sap who took it. He knows in the back of his mind that his golf game is shot because the golf gods will get him for that. If you took my 7 iron and happen to read this someday, you can point to this for the reason your game was shot to hell.
Until then, I’m off to grab a few winter rounds of golf using some thin ski clothing and blackberry brandy. Hit ‘em straight boys.