Lost Balls: Great Holes, Tough Shots, and Bad Lies

A unique and colorful collection of photographs featuring the under-celebrated wayward shot, its landing locale, and unexpected wildlife confrontations on and off the green. The perfect gift for golfers, regardless of their handicap.

In Lost Balls, Charles Lindsay’s photographs offer a humorous and inquisitive foray into the hazards where golf balls are lost—rough, woods, deserts, and wetlands—as well as encounters with local wildlife, including rattlesnakes, grizzly bears, raccoons, and more.

An avid golfer with plenty of experience losing balls, Lindsay photographs his way to the heart of the game with a light touch and an eye for telling details. In the process, he discovers balls lodged in cacti, submerged in swamps, and lost for over a century. He also uncovers a lexicon of curious words printed on the balls themselves: Intruder, Floater, Pluto, Revelation, and many others.

Lindsay even comes face-to-face with what is possibly the world’s oldest golf ball—unearthed from an early-sixteenth-century trash heap alongside a primitive club—and the infamous spot in the tall grass where Tiger Woods lost a ball that cost him the 2003 British Open.

The photographs in Lost Balls were made at both revered and obscure courses in North America, Scotland, England, and Ireland, including Pebble Beach, Bandon Dunes, Sanctuary, Bethpage, Fossil Trace, St. Andrews, St. Enodoc, Royal St. Georges, Carne, Old Head, and Ballybunion.