Hundreds of golf balls found in Rustington garden

FIRST it was a lorry engine dug up in a Littlehampton garden and now there's another mystery find '“ hundreds of golf balls buried in a Rustington garden.

The house, in Woodlands Avenue, belongs to 77-year-old Jane Morgan, who has lived at the property for more than 30 years.

She was digging a bog-pond in the garden with help from her 16-year-old neighbour Brook Heading when they found a golf ball and then another and another, until soon they had unearthed hundreds.

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It is a mystery how they came to be there. The house was built around 50 years ago and there were plant nurseries on the site before that.

Mrs Morgan said: "When I moved here the whole of the back garden was a huge vegetable plot with no sign of a golf course.

"Brook has been a great help. He has dug the bog pond for me and I'm going to put lilies and other plants in it when it's ready."

Brook, who is currently sitting his GCSE exams and celebrated his birthday on Tuesday, said: "Jane had started on the pond and I asked if I could help because there's a lot of digging to be done. It took about four hours but I didn't mind helping."

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Many of the balls are Dunlop 65s which date back as far as 1950, but it's puzzling how so many got to be there and in one part of the garden without so much as a golf course nearby.

Jane and Brook have dug the pond to its required depth but there are still many balls in the ground, looking like a clutch of crocodile eggs waiting to hatch.

Just how many are down there no-one will know as Brook and Jane don't plan to dig any deeper than they have to and the pond will be filled with water and plants soon.

"You never know what's buried under your garden," Mrs Morgan said. "We were waiting for the golf bag or the golfer to be dug up next."

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