Letter: Golf course thefts infuriating

Wednesday, July 3, 2002 | 9:03 a.m.

If you ever want to see it again, never leave anything on the golf course. Not in Las Vegas. This is not only the rudest city in the world (see road rage) it is also full of thieves (petty thieves).

In the past few years I have lost two watches, a cigar case, a five iron (with my name and address on it), two personalized towels, a pair of prescription sunglasses, a Tiger Woods head cover, a Super Bowl hat, and this week a Hawaiian visor (that I really liked) and a cell phone. None were ever turned into the pro shop, although a guy looking for a reward did call to tell me he had my cell phone.

Other places, when someone finds a lost item on the course, they turn it in (except for putters and sand wedges, of course). But not here. Not ever!

I don't much care about the towels or the head cover or the Super Bowl hat. But I hope that the guy who is wearing my new Hawaiian visor this week, triple bogies every hole he ever plays for the rest of his no-good thieving life!

RAY BADGLEY