Lower Mainland couple’s wedding golf ball found deep in the bush at Gallagher’s Canyon after 10 years

A couple from the Lower Mainland is getting one of their wedding golf balls back nearly 10 years after the pair tied the knot.

The pair got married at Redwoods Golf Course in Langley all the way back in July 2010.

On their special day, each guest received a customized commemorative golf ball with a cartoon picture of the bride and groom, the date of the wedding and the happy couple’s names.

At some point in the last decade, one of the guests didn’t have their best shot while playing a round at Gallagher’s Canyon Golf Club and the ball was as good as gone.

“The ball was hit into an impenetrable mass of thistles and marsh where no sane person would venture,” explained Kelowna resident Barry McDivitt. “Then I came along.”

McDivitt says he was walking along the course a couple of months ago, the day before the Okanagan Valley’s first big snowfall of the season.

“I eyeballed the thicket and thought, ‘I bet there’s a bunch of balls in there.’ There were,” he explained in a Facebook post.

He says he came out with plenty of cuts, bruises and slivers, but also about 200 filthy golf balls that he finally got around to cleaning a few days ago.

“One caught my eye,” he wrote on Facebook. “On one side of the ball was a cartoon of a bride and groom. Their names and wedding date were on the other side.”

McDivitt then took to social media to try and track the young couple down.

It turns out they’re still together and living in Abbotsford with two beautiful daughters, so McDivitt reached out.

He figured they may have boxes of these balls left over in their garage and wouldn’t care about the single one lost in Kelowna, but that wasn’t the case.

“They were delighted to hear from me and are looking forward to getting the ball in the mail,” said McDivitt.

Their ball wasn’t the only wedding ball in the hoard either, but the Kelowna resident says that the other ball is from 2008 and only has the couple’s first names stamped on it.

“Finding them is going to be a challenge.”