Guernsey woman finds golf ball in her bag of Jersey Royals

The golf ball that Beverley Mackay received along with her Jersey Royals. (33663157)

JERSEY has been exporting its celebrated potatoes for decades and Channel Islander Beverley Mackay has long been buying them…

But the 75-year-old Guernseywoman got a surprise when she took home her latest bag from Waitrose – and found the growers had inadvertently included a golf ball.

‘To my absolute amazement, I took out four potatoes and there was this golf ball,’ Mrs Mackay said. ‘I couldn’t believe my own eyes.’

The ball had the words K&A Golf Centre Jersey printed on it in faint letters, and Mrs Mackay said she believed it was a training ball which ended up in a potato field before accidentally being picked up at harvest time.

Mrs Mackay said: ‘You hear about spiders in bananas – but this was a bit different.’

She added: ‘If I had been blind I might have cooked it.’

The supermarket gave Mrs Mackay her money back and a bunch of flowers by way of apology, and have promised to carry out an investigation.

But the islander saw the funny side and said: ‘It was just a one-off. It’s caused a lot of amusement.’

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