tendency of errant golf balls to find the boundary between domesticated and wild landscapes.

boundary between our outward exploration of the golf ball as a material object and our inward exploration of the golf ball as a phenomenon, a mode of experience.

While lost balls compel Updike and Lindsay to ponder mortality, they can also draw us beyond the safe and familiar boundaries of our experience and bring us into contact with another, secret life. Our

The dissenting judge argued that the essence of a golf ball rests not in its material form but rather in its name and the nonmaterial qualities the name conveys:

loss of function liberates it from its relation to us.

all of them describe the game as a mechanical process subject to control, if not mastery, through the diligent and systematic application of a few fundamental principles.

Heidegger suggested that we only really know an object when it breaks—

trade and, in the longer term, the irrevocable destruction of Southeast Asian ecosystems:

polyurethane balls have emerged in concert with a larger economic and technological ascendance.