What Happens to Your Golf Balls After They Land in the Water?

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  • What Happens to Your Golf Balls After They Land in the Water?
    Ever wonder what happens to your golf ball after it lands in the drink? From the water to the shelves, we walk you through the step-by-step golf ball recycling process.
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Komentáře • 154

  • @PondKingWaterGardensMN
    @PondKingWaterGardensMN Před 3 lety +79

    Great business! I'll use an old ball any day!

  • @alexmarshall7909
    @alexmarshall7909 Před 3 lety +38

    Every ball is used after the first tee - superb

  • @agentsmith7866
    @agentsmith7866 Před 3 lety +106

    I only use used balls. I don't play well enough where a scratch will greatly lower my game.

    • @tytorubio3271
      @tytorubio3271 Před 3 lety +7

      I dont think a scratch will lower anyones games..

    • @jdm_ghost3037
      @jdm_ghost3037 Před rokem

      Same with me I’m new to golf so scratches on a ball don’t affect my gameplay

  • @DankPods
    @DankPods Před 3 lety +74

    This was a great vid! Under 5 minutes and I get all these peoples stories about used golf balls. Also getting a bag of used Pro V1's is good fun, I don't cringe went I inevitably lose one.

    • @MarkSmith-lz5rk
      @MarkSmith-lz5rk Před 3 lety +1

      So my country club has a track man, I bought a lot of 4 star prov1s and a box of brand new ones....numbers were IDENTICAL...so why pay so much?

    • @oscarhelliar9100
      @oscarhelliar9100 Před 3 lety +3

      No wayyyy somehow I find the true blue Aussie dankpods here

    • @johnsalgado9217
      @johnsalgado9217 Před 2 lety

      Didn’t think I’d run into your account here 😂. Love the videos!

  • @LS-td6sz
    @LS-td6sz Před 4 lety +59

    I reckon the company is doing a great job to help golfers and the environment. And thank you divers.

    • @blinco1539
      @blinco1539 Před rokem

      Hell yes, anyone who isn’t a scratch golfer (me included) should reuse golf balls

  • @beegee22
    @beegee22 Před 4 lety +47

    Years ago I knew two brothers who dove for golf balls. Their biggest concern was snapping turtle in those ponds.

    • @keeleygildemeister16
      @keeleygildemeister16 Před 3 lety +7

      beegee22 I was playing in a match a few weeks ago, and we saw a huge bull frog. One of the kids I was playing with, decided to gently tap the frog. The frog was so startled.

  • @RaijinKaze
    @RaijinKaze Před 4 lety +82

    Some golf balls that go in the lakes are actually very high quality. They remain that way for a good while too! Don’t see the stigma in using recovered balls. Especially if you are just starting out with a high handicap and prone to bad shots.

    • @shakebooty
      @shakebooty Před 4 lety +5

      If the person is a high handicap and prone to bad shots, they most definitely should get used balls

    • @vika0194
      @vika0194 Před 3 lety

      That’s the point. You say ”some” which means some are also damaged or bad quality. And when you buy those mystery bags or packs you don’t know what you will get. Some times grade A are actually grade B or C.

    • @RaijinKaze
      @RaijinKaze Před 3 lety +1

      Victor It depends on where you buy them from. Either way a High handicap player wont notice a very big improvement in their game based off ball quality. It’s better to lose a grade B or C ball to bad shots than a grade A. It saves you so much money in the long run.

    • @zdynamogaming1854
      @zdynamogaming1854 Před 3 lety

      The only issue is that these many different variables when using used balls because they only sort them by brand. So you end up hitting the same brand ball differently because one is alot older than the other and not in as good shape. Your better off to go to Walmart and pay 5 bucks for 12 balls and then you get used to hitting those so that you cut out a lot of variables

  • @davidrowlands8451
    @davidrowlands8451 Před 4 lety +40

    We buy lake balls from a local guy for our driving range, we get 6000 balls for £500 less than 9 pence per ball and we get some great golf balls as you would expect :)

  • @nizzisnice5478
    @nizzisnice5478 Před 4 lety +34

    That’s a lot of pissed off golfers

  • @caddyboo3610
    @caddyboo3610 Před 3 lety +9

    This is insightful, glad to see the circular usage of the balls!!! Amazing initiative and we are totally behind it!

  • @e-rockmixtapes4073
    @e-rockmixtapes4073 Před 3 lety +4

    When I was kid, we lived next to a 9 hole public. I used to go into the ponds at night with a buddy and pick up golf balls by feeling around using our feet. We would sell them back to the golfers thru the fence. We had a good little thing going for a while. Who knew we were ahead of our time!

  • @edwardterlaje6516
    @edwardterlaje6516 Před 3 lety +5

    You are doing an awesome job recycling, I give 👍👏

  • @charlesharrison6291
    @charlesharrison6291 Před 4 lety +13

    Good video. A very well thought out company providing a very needy service. No wonder the golf ball manufacturers are against this company, long May it continue and remain in business.

  • @940steel
    @940steel Před 3 lety +4

    My dad said he used to go to golf courses and fetch old balls out of the water, then he would resell them to golfers on the field for cheaper than the main desk, he always turned up a really good profit!

  • @tommyspeed1434
    @tommyspeed1434 Před 3 lety +51

    I think I saw a couple of ones I lost

  • @Beyondtheblackwall
    @Beyondtheblackwall Před 3 lety +1

    I work at a course and this is cool.

  • @sgtbaker81
    @sgtbaker81 Před 3 lety +1

    What a gig. Good for him.

  • @cBelowH2O
    @cBelowH2O Před 3 lety +7

    I found 3,400 balls on one pond!! Shocked at how MANY balls cover the bottom of those ponds. Awesome experience!!

    • @demo_main6973
      @demo_main6973 Před rokem +1

      i found 2 balls in my underwear, good find! played with them after!

  • @GumbootZone
    @GumbootZone Před 3 lety +14

    "I've got golf balls."
    "Ouch. Is that anything like tennis elbow?"

  • @monicarichards1064
    @monicarichards1064 Před 3 lety

    Great work

  • @leifdux7277
    @leifdux7277 Před rokem

    such a nice job

  • @mikemaybe5999
    @mikemaybe5999 Před 4 lety +5

    Good video

  • @eztv1656
    @eztv1656 Před 2 lety

    Come to NC My course ponds not cleaned in years, I put least 100 in alone.

  • @RaceMentally
    @RaceMentally Před 4 lety +1

    Great biz

  • @sarge420
    @sarge420 Před 4 lety +1

    Awesome job, cheers!

  • @bensonpurplet8265
    @bensonpurplet8265 Před 4 lety +3

    I love her energy

  • @j1238066
    @j1238066 Před 4 lety +2

    I have bought balls from this company a few times & have zero complaints, I always buy the "Mint" quality, fair price, fast delivery, most balls I can't tell from brand new in condition or distance.

  • @noahkelly5866
    @noahkelly5866 Před rokem

    My brothers best friend dives for golf balls, its pretty cool

  • @stephaniedodt2389
    @stephaniedodt2389 Před rokem

    I had a very long layoff from golf due to knee osteoarthritis. When I had both knees replaced last year my surgeon gave me the green light to start playing. I have been taking weekly lessons since May and just treated myself to a full set of Callaway golf clubs. So, having not played in years and having the most up to date clubs, I no longer know how far I hit each of them and need to come up with a yardage book. I am buying a launch monitor which calculates the distance the balls fly with each club. I want to be sure that the launch monitor collects measurements from relatively new ball of the same exact type I will play with. I bought mint condition golf balls to collect my data from. I also got a dozen premium balls in mint condition that are totally sold out as new right now. I'm getting to try them at a highly discounted price and they are in perfect condition!

  • @TheGroovers71
    @TheGroovers71 Před 3 lety +1

    I'm a member of a golf club down here in Colombia. The courses here can be challenging since mine borders a jungle and make it damn near impossible to find your ball if you hit it out of bounds. There are some old timers who search through the bamboos and sell them back for about 50 cents a piece. You can buy a bag of 20 right on the course for about ten bucks.

  • @duonghoangminh7634
    @duonghoangminh7634 Před 2 lety

    Great business! I would open the Second handed Lost and water Hazards golf balls for My country!

  • @xxskabxx
    @xxskabxx Před 3 lety

    Awesome business strategy on their parts

  • @Eastern_Kentucky_Basketball

    I think I figured out where every ball I hit went to

  • @dylanholt1097
    @dylanholt1097 Před rokem

    I just started golfing recently. Played my first 18 holes yesterday. I went with 6 balls.. and came home with 20! Now I’m looking at videos to clean them and re use them to save money.

  • @n8turee
    @n8turee Před 3 lety +31

    "We have grades from a to d a being the best"
    Proceeds to put top flite balls in a

    • @masonsmarbleruns8170
      @masonsmarbleruns8170 Před 3 lety +1

      Nature in a what

    • @matuh111
      @matuh111 Před 3 lety +11

      A to D refers to the physical condition of the ball, not the quality of the brand.

  • @mjj5276
    @mjj5276 Před 3 lety +7

    As kids we used to go into the ponds and then sell them back to golfers.
    #easymoney

  • @dmdbdmdb
    @dmdbdmdb Před 3 lety

    Golf course I play has a diver come through once a year. Get's anywhere between 12,000 to 16,000 balls. 60 percent goes to diver and 40 percent to the club for the driving range

  • @kyleecookers3483
    @kyleecookers3483 Před 3 lety +1

    Come to Mission Inn

  • @karlj1717
    @karlj1717 Před rokem

    I use second hand golf balls they are great and save me plenty of money, I’ve not been playing long but second hand balls make it more affordable and I still have fun.

  • @mrpurge9738
    @mrpurge9738 Před 2 lety

    All my driving balls are old or refurbished balls then I use a pro v 1 to play the rest of the hole out.

  • @DMBall
    @DMBall Před rokem +1

    But what happens to the golf balls that are too damaged to recycle? Can the materials be salvaged?

  • @tannerabell387
    @tannerabell387 Před 3 lety

    In South Africa, each course just has a gardener swim and get them and then the course just sells them back at the Pro Shop

  • @MrV902
    @MrV902 Před 3 lety +7

    I know what I want to do for a career.
    I thought it was just one kid that did this but it turns out there's an entire industry around it.

  • @manueljosemackennavial289
    @manueljosemackennavial289 Před 2 měsíci

    Hi! Thanks for sharing! Do you have any way of contacting the company owners? I am starting the same business in my country but I would love to get some tips from the pros! Thanks!!

  • @buschh7020
    @buschh7020 Před rokem

    3:10 why are there Top Flite balls in the A crate?

  • @stee4592
    @stee4592 Před 3 lety

    I wonder how many at DIEGO GARCIA .🏌️‍♂️🏌️‍♀️

  • @grampabadger
    @grampabadger Před 4 lety +5

    On many courses, the superintendent owns the right to salvage water balls. Technically, all lost golf balls on the course belong to the superintendent. Tools have been invented to retrieve balls from lakes to avoid aligators and snapping turtles.

  • @steveperry1344
    @steveperry1344 Před 3 lety

    we saw a guy doing this in fla.years ago. he said gators and water moskins could be a problem.

  • @karlg1535
    @karlg1535 Před 3 lety +7

    I'll find 20-30 in the bush alone I believe his claims of millions found the ponds& rivers must be stacked! & I haven't bought balls in years got milk crates of titleist, taylormade, srixon, callaway, bridgstone & one of of budget balls like noodles,pinnacles,nike,topflights,powerbilt. I sell them to my friends & end up getting beer money for my round

  • @buttdreads
    @buttdreads Před 2 lety

    0:21 Phoenician Golf Club balls. Lol

  • @DaveSwart
    @DaveSwart Před 3 lety

    Could there be a more poisonous water to swim in than water on a golf course?

  • @legacy6519
    @legacy6519 Před 11 měsíci

    Lol that lady is a savage! 🤣

  • @larrypilgrim12
    @larrypilgrim12 Před 2 lety

    What about courses with huge gators? Have you done those?

  • @jackkarg2578
    @jackkarg2578 Před 2 lety

    When do I START...??!!

  • @jg769
    @jg769 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Is there any degradation or loss of performance for a ball that has spent a year underwater?

  • @fedoradeb8r412
    @fedoradeb8r412 Před 3 lety +4

    Me and my buddies will sometimes go look through a hazard after playing a round and find like 100 balls usually a lot of pro v1s too

    • @DerrickRG
      @DerrickRG Před 3 lety

      I've never bought a Pro-V1.....But it's my ball of choice lol.

    • @jackgarcia9922
      @jackgarcia9922 Před 3 lety

      SinikkaL I haven’t either. But I find them everywhere because everyone uses them 😁

  • @ljwyman6201
    @ljwyman6201 Před 3 lety

    12

  • @georgew.5639
    @georgew.5639 Před 3 lety

    They end up in the intake of the course irrigation system. After a flood the lake has to be drained to remove them. Lol!

  • @markusfilms8069
    @markusfilms8069 Před 3 lety

    This seems like a Mark Rober Type if video

  • @donjuwann5868
    @donjuwann5868 Před 3 lety

    wife and I were fishing in a water hazard on Hilton Head as we walked back to our car we saw a guy with scuba gear on get out of the water and come to his car parked next to us,his license plate was from Michigan as was ours so we spoke to him,seems he was a student at Central Michigan U and said he paid for his schooling doing this every summer,wife was also a graduate of CMU so we had a nice chat,not for me I saw big gators everytime we fished there

  • @dunningkruger3774
    @dunningkruger3774 Před 3 lety +1

    The groundskeepers at our club sell us balls for a buck. I only buy ProV1's and they look like new. Yes, I have bought a few of my own balls back. I was really hoping this video would shed light on how water affects the integrity of the balls over time. As for diving in a golf course water hazard......with all the pesticides and possible grey water.....I'd say "definite hazard".

  • @angeloamitsis514
    @angeloamitsis514 Před 3 lety

    Like 1 mil

  • @chetbarney6635
    @chetbarney6635 Před 2 měsíci

    I've got so many balls that I've collected over the past nine years, that I don't know how I'll ever clean them all. LOL

  • @plxsma2139
    @plxsma2139 Před 3 lety

    And I think my 27 golf ball collection is impressive

  • @hotdogambassador
    @hotdogambassador Před 3 lety +11

    I almost went to jail today for wrestling in a golf sand pit

  • @coleryan2353
    @coleryan2353 Před 3 lety +1

    3:55 omg I play there!

  • @randyposs6281
    @randyposs6281 Před 3 lety

    When I was 14 we went in lake on rainy day in the water because man that worked there told us not to wade out in the water,we gots about a thousand balls out

  • @Utubeisazzho
    @Utubeisazzho Před rokem

    Balls hold water after small amt of time. You’ll loose lots of range. Good for range balls

  • @Eliteguitarschool
    @Eliteguitarschool Před 2 lety

    I'll get it.😅🤣😅😅🤣

  • @Akram4918
    @Akram4918 Před 4 lety

    Where can I buy these recycled golf balls

  • @bigbysnow6306
    @bigbysnow6306 Před 3 lety +1

    Anyone else shoot better with a random range ball than the expansive ones?

  • @Xzartol
    @Xzartol Před 10 měsíci

    when i play and no one is behind me i go into the woods and look around for a few min i find sooooo many balls in pine tree areas bc no one wants to push through the pine tree to get them lol

  • @scottsmith7838
    @scottsmith7838 Před 2 lety

    No way!!! That’s where my sponge bob ball went hope he’s doin ok

  • @bena9713
    @bena9713 Před 3 lety +2

    So Tom Hanks is diving for golf balls now eh?

  • @mmkn2009
    @mmkn2009 Před 3 lety

    Definition of Water Hazard: A Hazard placed on a golf course so that someone can legally sell someone else's property! LOL.

  • @jenniferpasterick1776
    @jenniferpasterick1776 Před 3 lety

    0

  • @ginagonzalez7492
    @ginagonzalez7492 Před 2 lety

    1987 is the year my golf coach of special Olympics was born

  • @bill-nj6fc
    @bill-nj6fc Před rokem

    millions, i want a recount

  • @At_the_races
    @At_the_races Před 3 lety

    I played Sawgrass recently and they were telling me that they took 200,000+ balls out of the 17th every year.

    • @RevelFishing
      @RevelFishing Před rokem

      That means people lose like 500 balls a day 🤔

  • @eduardonava6284
    @eduardonava6284 Před 3 lety

    2:40 found el chapo

  • @johnosullivan5977
    @johnosullivan5977 Před 3 lety +1

    When you say everywhere you don’t mean everywhere you mean everywhere in America

  • @sionemehi3622
    @sionemehi3622 Před 2 lety

    I almost thought that was "El Chapo" pulling that basket of balls out of the water

  • @Toosavage2015
    @Toosavage2015 Před rokem

    I have never lost a ball in the pond I have golf’d like 10 times

  • @kingston_gage1707
    @kingston_gage1707 Před 3 lety

    Let's go I do diving for golf balls and I go to the jedis next to the golf course and I Almost got hit once it missed by 3 inches and I found a pond with heaps of balls

  • @paulgolfer
    @paulgolfer Před 11 měsíci

    THEY GO SPLAT OR SPLASH EVEN A PLOP HAS BEEN KNOWN .

  • @dttruman
    @dttruman Před 3 lety

    When the price of premium golf balls skyrocketed, playing used premium balls became eminently more practical and less embarrassing

  • @koa14kn27
    @koa14kn27 Před 3 lety +1

    Mind if I take some ProV1x?

  • @Wyatt425
    @Wyatt425 Před 3 lety

    Sometime I get used golf balls and you can’t even tell a difference

  • @vincentw4483
    @vincentw4483 Před 3 lety +1

    The water in the golf courses‘ ponds is the dirtiest one. It comes from sewage pipe. Can’t imagine someone dives into it. It’s truly a dirty job.

    • @FD-nz7qv
      @FD-nz7qv Před rokem

      Not to mention the chemicals and down here in Florida, they gators get about 10 feet so yeah dirty and dangerous job.

  • @moronmonkey1
    @moronmonkey1 Před 3 lety +1

    I can’t imagine that a golf ball sitting in a pond that was most likely man made can be bad for the environment 😂

  • @mauriziowill6531
    @mauriziowill6531 Před 3 lety

    Don't make guy jokes about balls...don't make guy jokes about balls....don't make guy jokes about balls washing...oops!!

  • @dmdbdmdb
    @dmdbdmdb Před 3 lety

    If they filled the holes on the greens with water I would be playing professional golf. My balls always make their way into the ponds, creeks, etc. Anything with water!

  • @mariaaranda7181
    @mariaaranda7181 Před 2 lety

    87i7

  • @johnosullivan5977
    @johnosullivan5977 Před 3 lety

    It’s not a plant it’s a factory I would know

  • @zo1147
    @zo1147 Před 3 lety

    Yeah, and next thing you know it’s back in the water

  • @FreshlySnipes
    @FreshlySnipes Před 3 lety

    You won’t find my ball Lady... ima keep it for ever and never lose it. 😤

  • @mattjwatson5089
    @mattjwatson5089 Před 3 lety

    Can get a bag of 45 used balls at wal-mart for 15 bucks. All really good condishion.

  • @poggergen1937
    @poggergen1937 Před 3 lety

    I looked on their website and the balls are stupid expensive

  • @archstanton3636
    @archstanton3636 Před 3 lety +1

    I paid Doral once and the caddie told me the diver pays them $40K a year to get the balls there.

    • @dttruman
      @dttruman Před 3 lety

      In the past, when retrieving golf balls first became a regular business, the golf course would paid the guy to get the balls a flat fee and they also split the total number of golf balls

    • @FD-nz7qv
      @FD-nz7qv Před rokem

      In Doral the members are so rich that they don't even try to retrieve balls in the rough. Everytime I've played there I've picked at least 5 balls.

  • @rikkousa
    @rikkousa Před 2 lety

    The process on used golf balls are getting ready to go up. The maker of the surilyn that all golf ball makers use is getting hit by the pandemic. Supposed in 2020 there will be shortages of new balls. I predict that there will be more interest in used golf balls.:)