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

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

Every ball is used after the first tee - superb

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.

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

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

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

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.

I think I saw a couple of ones I lost

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 :)

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!

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

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.

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

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!

That’s a lot of pissed off golfers

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

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

What a gig. Good for him.

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.

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.

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

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.

I work at a course and this is cool.

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

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

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!

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

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.

I love her energy

Good video

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

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

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

such a nice job

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.

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

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

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.

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

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!!

Great work

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

Awesome business strategy on their parts

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

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

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

Great biz

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

When do I START...??!!

Awesome job, cheers!

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

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

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

0:21 Phoenician Golf Club balls. Lol

Lol that lady is a savage! 🤣

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

Come to Mission Inn

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

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".

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

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

This seems like a Mark Rober Type if video

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

3:55 omg I play there!

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

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

And I think my 27 golf ball collection is impressive

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

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

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

So Tom Hanks is diving for golf balls now eh?

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

I'm always hesitant to retrieve my ball when it lands in the water due to my fear of reptiles and alligators!

millions, i want a recount

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Mind if I take some ProV1x?

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!

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

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

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

Like 1 mil

I'll get it.😅🤣😅😅🤣

Where can I buy these recycled golf balls

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

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

I thought balls got waterlogged?

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

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I looked on their website and the balls are stupid expensive

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

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

2:40 found el chapo

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