O/T Golf balls

BIG RUH

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One of the local golf course is having the water hazards redone with rip rap and landscape blocks. Water needs to be drained to work on the hazards. Golf course wants the golf balls cleaned out while water is out. Friend and myself are collecting the golf balls and as of this morning we have filled a 7' X 12' X 2' wagon with golf balls. We get to keep the balls in trade for the labor. Still have 8 more hazards to clean as soon as they're drained and ground is frozen enough to walk on. Didn't realize there were that many poor golfers. Bet there were quite a few mulligans use.
 
Couple of kids lived on a farm next to the local course, and they collected a lot of balls- sold them for so much a bag, made pretty good spending money doing it. I think the course also let them sell them on the counter at the pro shop, in exchange for giving back any range balls (stripe around them) they found.
 
When playing golf I always enjoyed trying to recover balls from the water hazards, I'm frequently told 'you can take the ball out of the water, but you can't take the water out of the ball'. Seems to be a true statement, as most I recover find their way back there eventually.
 
I bale a field next to a golf course. The most balls I've collected is a dozen. They make good shifter knobs and my dog likes to play with them. My nephew likes them too.
 
I don't know where they come from, but I can be mowing just about anywhere, and I will see a golf ball. I never pick them up. Stan
 
This part of the country it is a commercial operation. Actually two different companies that go around about twice a year and get the balls from the water hazards. They market the balls all over and it must be a pretty good business. They drive nice pickup trucks.
 
BIG RUH ,WOW a 7x12x2 full of golf balls.What a haul worth way more than a wagon load of soybeans. And less than a school bus or a 747 full.
 
the most excitement ive ever had with a golf ball is when my brush hog hits them and they happen to fly up onto the operators station of the tractor, only 1 hit, but that was 1 too many , the spinning brush hog blades do put some stank on that ball!
 
A few years after the wife and I bought our farm, I would regularly find golf balls when mowing my rolling pasture. Was telling a guy at work about it and told him i guessed the Good Lord was trying to tell me to take up golf. The guy told me "Nope! He is trying to tell you to build a golf course!"
 
I like to shoot at them with a .22. Throw a half dozen or so out on some pretty firm ground and sit in the back of the pickup and plink for hours. They do some pretty crazy stuff when hit.
 
I was practically born and raised on the golf course and I used to play every day. Wish I had the time to do it more now but it seems like twice a year is all I can muster up anymore.

Anyway, golf is as much a mental game as it is physical. You can psych your self out and make a bad shot just because there is something up ahead you don't want your ball getting into, like a water hazard. If you let your nerves get to you that ball WILL go into the hazard. A few years ago a friend and I were playing a course in Kamsack, Sask. I was doing pretty darned well till we got to either the last or next to the last hole. It was an easy 150 or so yard par 3, no dogleg, just straight to the hole from the tee with a nine iron. The problem was the green was in the middle of a pond. There was no fareway at all, just a tee box and a green in the middle of this pond. I hadn't missed a shot prior to this hole on any of the other holes, but on this one my nerves got to me and I topped two balls and put both of them in the drink. On the third try I finally got it on the green. My friend landed his right on the green and putted in for a birdie. GRRRRR
 
There is an area on a friends farm, that is peppered with them, seems the residents have been at it a long time, the area is literally dotted with them, can't imagine how long it would take to gather all those.

I found them all around my house on the nearby hill side, I canvassed the neighborhood, put the word out that "they don't like dodging these downstream" etc. Seems to have ceased for years now, but for awhile someone was hitting some long shots from somewhere, given the radius I have retrieved them from.
 
If you need to move something a short distance like a gun safe. lay several on the floor and set the safe down on it and either have a box built around them for feed more in as it moves. Be careful because it will MOVE. I moved one over the door threshold.
 

A golf course is border on my property... I have went for a swim with a bag tied to my belt a many a night... Its no problem in the water but I have had trouble once I try and get up on the bank and drag the out... I can get 800 to 1000 in one bag and never put a dent in whats in the pond... I have seen the pond drained and the dirt cracks open you can find balls as deep as you can dig... Fish gather up the balls and make beds out of them (NO kidding)...

Balls fetch $10 a hundred here its really not worth the time to go after them... I did enjoy walking around the course and looking for them... When I played I as soon look for balls as hit them... When I was a kid we would trade them for hot dogs at the club house...

Bout the only advise I can give ya is ware gloves the chemicals they use around a golf course are harsh...
 
Before we even started this venture, we had buyers for the balls. Waiting now for warmer temperatures to wash them before selling
 

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