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Golfer attempts to play lake-side ball as it lies – ends up spectacularly falling in the drink

Published 14:11 1 Aug 2022 BST

Jack Peat
Golfer attempts to play lake-side ball as it lies – ends up spectacularly falling in the drink

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It wasn't even his ball! 

This is the hilarious moment a British golfer attempted to play the ball as it lies - and ended up falling in a lake. Anthony Jordan, 58, was playing the Nottinghamshire Golf and Country Club's Championship Course last week when he ended up in the drink. Funny footage shows the dad-of-two, widely known by his friends as TJ, catching the surface of the water instead of the ball - which sprays up into his face. This knocks him off balance, and he then falls backwards straight into the lake. Anthony says the the ball wasn't actually his - but he just "fancied a challenge" on the course's 13th hole. Anthony, an electrician from Wetherby, Yorks., UK, said: "The funny thing is, it wasn't even my ball - I just fancied a challenge. "When I went back to the clubhouse drenched, everyone had heard what had happened and they were howling. "I didn't mind at all though, I don't tend to take life too seriously so I found it easy to see the funny side!"

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