Irish Wedding News
10/05/2012
A gust of wind blew Alan Neill's belongings into the water as he played the final hole at the Ryder Cup 2010 course at Celtic Manor in Newport.
The 39-year-old financial controller, from Gloucester, managed to retrieve his golf bag from the lake. He found his mobile phone couldn't find the jewellery.
"I even stripped down to my boxer shorts and went in looking for them," Mr Neill, originally from County Down, Northern Ireland, told the BBC.
"But it's a steep bank and the water was very murky
"I did manage to find five or six of my missing golf clubs but it was absolutely freezing, too cold to stay in for more than a few minutes.
"I was losing hope and thought our attempts to find the watch and the wedding ring might have buried them further under the sludge on the bottom of the lake."
The Cynon Valley Sub Aqua Club, a group of divers were called in the next morning to help. Advanced diver Howard Lewis used underwater metal detecting equipment to find the watch and wedding ring.
"The watch is quite valuable but I was most worried about losing the wedding ring," Mr Neill continued.
"Most things are replaceable but a wedding ring is not. We're celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary in September so it feels great to have the ring back.
"The watch was still ticking when they found it so my only losses are a seven-iron and a GPS range-finding device, which I retrieved at the time but it has not worked since being in the water."
(GK)
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Diver Finds Golfers' Missing Ring
Divers have reunited a golfer with his watch and wedding ring after they plunged into a lake with his bag, clubs and trolley.A gust of wind blew Alan Neill's belongings into the water as he played the final hole at the Ryder Cup 2010 course at Celtic Manor in Newport.
The 39-year-old financial controller, from Gloucester, managed to retrieve his golf bag from the lake. He found his mobile phone couldn't find the jewellery.
"I even stripped down to my boxer shorts and went in looking for them," Mr Neill, originally from County Down, Northern Ireland, told the BBC.
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"But it's a steep bank and the water was very murky
"I did manage to find five or six of my missing golf clubs but it was absolutely freezing, too cold to stay in for more than a few minutes.
"I was losing hope and thought our attempts to find the watch and the wedding ring might have buried them further under the sludge on the bottom of the lake."
The Cynon Valley Sub Aqua Club, a group of divers were called in the next morning to help. Advanced diver Howard Lewis used underwater metal detecting equipment to find the watch and wedding ring.
"The watch is quite valuable but I was most worried about losing the wedding ring," Mr Neill continued.
"Most things are replaceable but a wedding ring is not. We're celebrating our 10th wedding anniversary in September so it feels great to have the ring back.
"The watch was still ticking when they found it so my only losses are a seven-iron and a GPS range-finding device, which I retrieved at the time but it has not worked since being in the water."
(GK)
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