[Rich Goodale]

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/11/04/littering.golf.balls/index.html

[Gary Slatter]

at the price of balls in Scotland I doubt many are left about any more.

[BCrosby]

…Here were decent godless people:
Their only monument the asphalt road
And a thousand lost golf balls.

T. S. Eliot

[Rich Goodale]

Bob

Are you sure that quote is from Eliot and not our Barney?

Rich

[BCrosby]

Eliot knew the answers decades before Barney knew the questions.

Bob

[Melvyn Morrow]

Rich

So Hickory shafted clubs and the feathery balls are set to make a come back, but please don’t tell the R&A as some still remember playing with them in their youth.

Melvyn

[Mike Nuzzo]

Yes Melvyn.

Doesn't this kill 2 birds with one stone?

An environmental golf ball that just happens to have a roll back due to the new materials!

[Melvyn Morrow]

Mike

Don't you just love new technology

Melvyn

[Mike Lacey]

Some Arizonans are already hard at work on the 'problem'....the CNN article is already linked up on their homepage.


http://www.dixongolf.com/Home/tabid/165/Default.aspx

[tlavin]

The issue of golf balls lost in grassy hazards first reared its unsightly head to me at Prairie Dunes, as I continually encountered golf ball after golf ball in the prairie grass, but usually never found my own nugget.  There are probably tens of thousands of golf balls lost in the gunch at Prairie Dunes.  When the grasses are burned on a controlled basis every year, I'm told that the landscape looks like it's dotted with toasted marshmallows.

[Tommy Williamsen]

I thiink the estimate of lost balls may be a little low.  I play with a guy who loses a million balsa year all by himself.

[Jud_T]

yet another reason for no water or trees on golf courses! 

[Kalen Braley]

yet another reason for no water or trees on golf courses! 

Or long, tall, fescue gunch!!!   

[RJ_Daley]

Also, when they burn the wooga at Wild Horse, they have all those many 'toasted marshmellows' scattered all over the place.  Here in Wisconsin at ranges in winter, they have a rubberized dual disk sort of gizmo that they drag behind a snowmobile and this picks them up out of hard packed snow.  I wonder if such can be used in native grasses areas, or after a burn?

[Bruce Katona]

Scientists require something to study now we have all agreed global warming will wipe out the planet.  Golf can contribute modestly to toward this end.

Perhaps we should be spending some money on dealing with larger issues than golf ball pollution.

[Patrick_Mucci]

Rich,

This also made it onto the "Weather Channel" today.

Like plastic, golf balls don't harm the environment, they only litter the environment.

With a 1,000 year shelf life, and it could be longer, it doesn't sound like the ingredients are going to have any substantive impact on our environment, unlike other discarded objects.

I think it's just another arrow in the quiver of those waging class warfare.

[Jim Sweeney]

Clearlt this is not a major issue and perhaps just another oppotunity to take a stab at our favorite game. But if someone came out with a ball similar in performance to todays balls at a similar price without the environmetal effects I'd consider playing it- wouldn't you?

[Dónal Ó Ceallaigh]

"Gary (Koch) on Golf" was on Eurosport last night and they interviewed a sales rep from Titliest. She said they manufactured 1 million golf balls EACH DAY!!! It's astounding.

At the start of this year, I threw a few new balls into my golf bag. The terrible slice I developed brought me into the rough on my home course on several occasions during a round. I'd usually find my own ball, but I'd come out of the rough each time with about 4-5 other balls. At one stage, I had to empty a load of balls from my bag, as it was bulging with lost balls.

Dónal.

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