Your club isn't gone. It's in a box.

At almost every course there is a box of lost clubs in the office. They get handed in, they get kept, and after a few months the box is emptied.

In between, nothing happens. The owner played three courses that week and doesn't know which one his club is sitting at. The finder handed it in and never hears about it again. Two people want the same thing and miss each other at a box.

The club is there.
What's missing is the connection between finder and owner.

Lost-and-found offices already exist

Every golf club has one, and most of them do a good job. They just each work on their own. What is sitting in a box in Portugal never reaches anyone searching in Germany.

Call your club first. It gets difficult after that: when you no longer remember which course it was, or when you would have to call fifteen of them. That is what we are here for. We connect the lost-and-found offices that are already there.

How it works

One person reports a loss, the other a find, each independently of the other. Our system compares brand, type of club, course, and date. If they fit together, both get an email. It works across course borders and national borders, in 24 languages.

You don't have to take our word for it: the current reports are on the home page. Real cases, not examples.

What we don't do

• We take no money. Not from the searcher, the finder, or the club. There is no fee when a club goes back.
• We require no account. An email address is enough, so we can notify you.
• We don't hand out your address. The other side never sees it; contact runs anonymously through us. It is sold to no one, and we show no advertising.
• We keep nothing against your will. A report closes after 360 days, and you can have it deleted at any time (privacy policy, section 5a). If you're still searching, you extend it with one click.

And what do we live on? At the moment, nothing at all — the site costs us money, not you. For golfers it will never cost anything. How we carry it in the long run is something we will decide when the time comes. The only certainty is how we won't: not with your data, and not with a fee for getting your own club back.

Why the honest person wins here

What stops someone from simply claiming the nice club is theirs? Every club office knows the guessing game: the description sort of fits. Maybe it's true. Maybe not.

So with us, anyone claiming a club must prove ownership first: with a detail only the owner could know. The nick in the shaft, say, or the engraved initials. You can add a photo from your own set in case of follow-up questions. What counts is your description, and that is what the finder reads. They decide for themselves whether it fits. Only then does contact open.

This is inconvenient. It is one step more, and some people will drop out. We chose it deliberately.

It matters more to us that the right person gets their club than that we count a lot of matches.

For finders and for clubs

Whoever finds a club and hands it in normally never learns whether it got home. With us, they get word when their find belongs to someone.

For the club, the lost-and-found box is unpaid work: storing, asking around, disposing of things, plus the occasional annoyed member. We take the asking around off their hands, and they pay nothing for it. Do ask at your club office whether they know us.

Better than finding it again

Best of all is when no search is needed. That is what our tags are for: mark your clubs once, and whoever finds one scans the code with their phone. You hear about it without anyone having to write a report.

Where this comes from

It started with a 6-iron. It stayed behind on a course, and we have never gotten it back. No drama, just one of those things you write off, because there is no way to settle them. Perhaps it is still sitting in a box somewhere.

For that iron it is too late. This site exists so that it doesn't go the same way for others.