Pond Doctor Golf Scammer
Kyle Jones AKA the Pond Doctor, claimed to be a members son at a local private club, in order to scam his way into multiple rounds over years.
We finally caught him. Over the last two weeks he showed up to the driving range, seemingly friendly and always engaging with employees with a smile. He introduced himself to me under a last name pseudonym, trying to connect himself with a member.
When he would show up to the course, he would never set foot in or around the clubhouse. He would go straight to the cart barn, grab himself a cart and backup range balls we would have stored there. Then he’d head to the range and try to blend in.
After showing up multiple times in a matter of days, we started to catch on. Our pro confronted him and asked if he was a member. He replied that he was. But the member name was different than his last name (which we only saw by looking at his placard in his car which said Jones). Then he tried to say his name was hyphenated with the member last name. These members were social members meaning they could only use the range when they had a tee time and were limited to three rounds a summer.
We reached out to the main member on the membership and it turns out this guy was NEVER on the membership, and in fact had been posing as the members son. He somehow got his pond doctor phone number into the system under the son’s name, and had been playing rounds up here for at least three summers.
We had a member event and he was on the range and we told him the course was closed. When we went to check Tom’s 10 to pull the pins for the night, he was out there playing. Again with a smile he tried to plead ignorance and we said to speed it up and finish.
It sucks we took this long to catch this guy. But BEWARE. He is nothing but a no good con artist and a fraud.