Shorter balls...that preserve the environment and the legacy

[Garland Bayley]

Garland,

According to this article, it takes "100 to 1,000 years for a golf ball to decompose naturally"....but not to worry, humanity on its current path will kill the planet long before most of them are gone.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/11/04/littering.golf.balls/

Time to stop thinking linearly Kalen. 

As opposed to what?

Exponentially! The balls are shedding microplastics and other chemicals exponentially more now than the same ball will 100 to 1000 years from now.

If you know how to exploit the time warp effect of a black hole, without being smashed into oblivion in the process, by all means out with it.  Until then, our frame of reference is certainly linear...

But back to practical reality.  My bet would be things like commercial fishing

As long as fish are healthy and reproduce, and if commercial fishing is limited to the reproduction rate, I am not worried about commercial fishing. Poisoning fish with chemicals and starving them due to changing environment would be a problem though.
, every day trash, and fertilizer/chemical runoff into the worlds water ways has by order of several magnitudes a far far larger effect on aquatic life....
So your justification is that it is OK as long as it is not as bad as other contributors? 

Right now fish are ingesting microplastics and the chemicals are passed on to humans that consume the fish.

PS Time to sell that gas guzzling SUV and buy a Tesla Model X.

[Lou_Duran]

Only in the minds of those who forget their science and history does Malthus and The Jetsons live simultaneously.


As I watched last week this moss-covered creature emerge from the lake fronting our 18th hole hauling two large nets filled with balls, it occurred to me that the price of new premium balls ($39.99/doz ProV1s and the like) might have some elasticity.  If the price goes up, the salvage business grows and the environment is saved from careless golfers.  I suppose that those of us who wish for a clean environment should be rooting for the rich guys to keep pushing up the price of new balls, and, as a result help clean up our bodies of water.


BTW, my limited knowledge of physics makes it hard to get my arms around a "positive ball".  I am under the impression that the M in the equation has a little bit to do with the resulting E.  So, ceteris paribus, is it possible for my sub-95 mph drive swing to hit a "positive ball" as far or farther than my son's 115+ mph?  I just don't think that is what Napoleon Hill meant when he said "What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve".