Yellow Balls

A small incident this morning illustrates the peril of playing with a yellow ball on the first hole. The first hole is normally littered with stray range balls, something as members we are all accustomed. It was the Vets 9 hole matchplay competition and Joan King was playing her match teeing off from the winter tee box. Neither player reached the fairway with their tee shots and Joan walked up to her ball in the rough and instinctively picked up an adjacent yellow ball and threw it onto the range. Oh dear !! it was actually her opponents ball and the result was a visit onto the range to retrieve the yellow ball accompanied by lots of laughing and giggling.