A golf excuse for losing your lucky ball
The joke starts with a missing lucky charm. The ball in the water takes the credit for every good shot you might otherwise have played, leaving its replacement responsible for what happens next. It is an equipment alibi with a little superstition attached: the favourite ball was doing the work all along. The short wording leaves your playing partners room to decide just how much faith you had invested in one piece of kit.
When to use the joke
Save this line for the conversation after a ball disappears into a pond or stream. Deliver it as a small observation rather than a long defence of the shot. If your group has already heard plenty about that lucky ball, the callback gives them something specific to laugh about.
Choose another alibi
For another equipment joke, browse the Kit collection. It gathers excuses about clubs, balls and grips, so you can change the object of the blame while keeping the same post-shot theme.