College golfer strips off, jumps into hazard to find his golf ball

Sometimes, you just have to question golf's rules. None more so than Rule 15-1 where you get docked two strokes if you accidentally drop a golf ball in the water and can't find it. 

That's exactly what happened to Jacksonville University senior David Wicks, who marked his three-footer for par only to see his ball trickle out of his pocket, hit his shoe and fall down the slope into the water.

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"I looked at my playing partners, they looked at me, and there was that awkward silence where we both knew it’d be a penalty," said Wicks.

The Englishman needed to find his original ball or he would be assessed a two-stroke penalty for not finishing the hole with the same ball.

@JUDolphins Here's video of Wicks looking for his ball. Just talked to him: "I was determined to redeem myself. That wasn't the way I was going out." pic.twitter.com/KoqjiOd2O6

— Ryan Lavner (@RyanLavnerGC) May 18, 2017

"I was always going to go in," he added. "If I hadn’t gone in and we’d lost by a shot, the nine-hour drive back I would have been thinking about it the whole time. At least I know now."

Wicks talks more about the incident below...

"It was warm," said  Wicks. "Nice temperature. If I had a nice inflatable and a Diet Coke, it would have been a lovely afternoon."

Digging through the mud, searching for five minutes, he found about 30 balls, mostly Top Flites and Pinnacles, but not his. 

Wicks went on to make a double-bogey six instead of par, however, it mattered little in the end as his Dolphins team went on to win a play-off and move into its first NCAA finals.