{"id":1491,"date":"2025-11-09T10:50:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T10:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2025-11-23T17:17:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T17:17:33","slug":"ball-fetching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/2025\/11\/09\/ball-fetching\/","title":{"rendered":"Ball Fetching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/golf-ball-fetching.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"golf ball fetching\" src=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/golf-ball-fetching_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"golf ball fetching\" width=\"440\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Taking care of Duke this weekend and taking him out on our course, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/2017\/06\/18\/course-review-temple\/\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Temple<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\">. Duke is currently our favourite golfing dog partly because he has picked up the trick of finding balls in the \u201cruff\u201d so well. I should elaborate that there are essentially 3 types of ball-finding on the golf course:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><b>UNWELCOME<\/b> \u2013 Unwelcome fetching is when a dog finds and takes a ball during play (the \u201ctake\u201d part being the problem). This gets reported periodically, But not to fret. Rules of golf mean that no material harm is done to your position as explained by the \u201cRules Guy\u201d blog (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/golf.com\/instruction\/rules\/i-watched-dog-pick-up-my-ball-rules-guy\/\"><i><span style=\"color: #008000;\">I watched a dog pick up my ball. What now? Rules Guy<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"color: #008000;\">):<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><i>\u201cThe dog is an outside influence, and when an outside influence moves your ball at rest you are required, per Rule 9.6, to replace it. Had its owner been unable to retrieve the ball from his mischievous pet, you would have been able to replace a new one; as it happened, you were allowed to clean the ball before replacing it, should slobber have been an issue.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">A recent example was <i>\u201cA dog [who] ran off with Paul Casey&#8217;s ball in his mouth on the 12th green during the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship\u2026A European Tour rules official inspected both and Casey was allowed to play his original ball.\u201d.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><b>LOST AND FOUND<\/b> \u2013 The internet has a number of stories of dogs who are particularly adept at finding lost balls in rough and out of bounds, etc. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dJeSPBzjlTQ\">Mata finds<\/a> her balls to help the local Special Olympics Golf Team.\u00a0 One even has their very own blog \u2013 \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tillythegolfballretrieverdog.wordpress.com\/about\/\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Tilly the Golf Ball Retriever Dog<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u201d. Collie Jess is a particular stand-out \u2013 \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/uk\/800264\/dog-collects-golf-balls-saves-owner-fortune\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Adorable dog saves her owner a FORTUNE by fetching 51,000 used golf balls<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u201d (any dog so trained on our course could find at least that many of just the balls I have lost!).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><b>IN THE RUFF<\/b> \u2013 The best ball \u201cfetching\u201d is not \u201cfetching\u201d at all actually, but \u201cfinding\u201d. We taught our <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/2023\/01\/08\/hall-of-fame-2023-grace\/\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Grace<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\"> to find balls in the ruff by scent (she would ignore other people\u2019s balls she came across and would only find the balls with our scent on them) and point to them. Our friend\u2019s Vizsla Luke is coming along very nicely in his ball finding skills after a successful outing yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Actually, Fireball Whisky came with come cinnamon scented golf balls to introduce this ball finding at a special event hosted by Bensenvilles White Pines Golf Club <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wgntv.com\/news\/northwest-suburbs\/dog-caddies-coming-to-chicagoland-golf-course\/\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Dog caddies coming to Chicagoland golf course<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u201c<em>[They] let a pack of Golden Retrievers loose on the course as part of a one-day event. The friendly doggos will serve as caddies of sorts, sniffing out cinnamon-scented golf balls that get lost in the \u2018ruff.\u2019 On game day, participants will get a Fireball cinnamon-scented golf ball to use at the designated hole. If the shot goes sideways, the FireBall Retrievers will hunt it down.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">But the ultimate achievement in this space has to be the Labrador Murphy who has perfected the skills of finding balls IN THE LAKE! (\u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thegolfnewsnet.com\/golfnewsnetteam\/2014\/08\/17\/video-dog-ultimate-caddie-retrieves-ball-thrown-pier-7518\/\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Dog is the ultimate caddie, retrieves ball thrown off pier<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>\u201cMurphy is an eight-year-old black Labrador and was on vacation with his owner at Cradle Lake in Saskatchewan, Canada. The owner decided to throw a golf ball off the pier on the lake and into four-foot-deep water. Murphy hops into the water (probably a little chilly) and swims around briefly before diving underwater to retrieve the ball.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ball-fnding-in-lake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" title=\"ball fnding in lake\" src=\"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ball-fnding-in-lake_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"ball fnding in lake\" width=\"440\" height=\"264\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #ffffff; margin: 1px; padding: 0px; border-radius: 3px; border: 0px currentcolor; width: calc(100% - 2px); min-width: 326px; max-width: 540px; box-shadow: 0px 0px 1px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.5), 0px 1px 10px 0px rgba(0,0,0,0.15);\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DBFB0OIo0Qg\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\">\n<div style=\"padding: 16px;\">\n<div style=\"display: flex; 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Duke is currently our favourite golfing dog partly because he has picked up the trick of finding balls in the \u201cruff\u201d so well. I should elaborate that there are essentially 3 types of ball-finding on the golf course: UNWELCOME \u2013 Unwelcome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doggolf.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}