What do you do when you've too many golf balls?
Sell Them of course!
Golf can be an expensive game. My putter cost over €400 and I don't even use the Scotty Cameron anymore, I've gone back to my trusty Odyssey putter which served me well in the past. My driver, the Ping G410 cost close to €500 brand new.
You get the idea. It's not a cheap sport! Now the €400 and €500 above was not paid out in cold hard cash my friends, no rather I used some pro shop vouchers I won for doing well in various competitions and twos money. So I contributed around €100 to €180 to each and the rest was winnings.
I currently have around €300 in vouchers and €100 in vouchers from my 2023 golfing exploits, not bad eh.. So I'll have to decide what new toy that I want to get. It might well be a new golf cart as the one I have is quite worn at this stage and could do with an upgrade.
Now it's not just the clubs that are expensive folks, the balls ain't cheap either and given that my ball of choice is a Titliest Pro V1, they are not cheap at all, especially if you're prone to loosing balls in water, hedges, over boundary walls etc. A twelve back of these Titliest Pro V1 balls will leave your pocket €55 - €60 lighter.
The good thing is that I no longer lose many balls and rather find balls during a round and often finish a round now with a surplus of balls. That's been happening for a while now and I'm finding lots and lots of balls. What will I do with all of these balls? Well I've started selling them actually.
€0.50 per ball for standard Titliest, Callaway, Taylor Made etc
€0.90 per ball for medium standard Callaway Tour Soft, Titliest Tour Speed etc
€1.25 per ball for Titliest Pro V1, Srixon Zstar, Callaway Chromesoft or Taylor Made TP5
I wait until I have around 20/30/40 of a particular ball and then advertise them online and they sell quite easily, so happy days. So I'm actually making a bit of money from my golf these days. That's as close to a professional sports person as I'll ever get to I suspect!
I do keep lots of Pro V1s myself too, and keep the flawless mint condition ones for myself. Free is a lot nicer than €55 per dozen!
During the winter months I usually use a cheaper ball like the Srixon AD333, as it's easy to lose balls in the soft winter ground.
Thanks a million for reading my post
Peace Out
Thanks as always @ewkaw 👌🏻
When we lived next to the golf course on average I would guess 20 balls per day would arrive in the garden and swimming pool. I literally have hundreds in the garage somewhere and was quite amazed at the numbers people lose. I do think if you hit balls into the rough often enough and are looking for your ball you do tend to find quite a few extras and your own. I was wondering do you think golfers are just too lazy to look these days and have too much money that thy just don't care.
20 per day, wow that's sweet. You could nearly start a business with that!
Nah golfers always care, whether rich or poor, as it's all about the score. A lost ball is going to cost you two shots.
Something that does drive me mad is people looking in the completely wrong place for their ball. Watch it, pick a reference point nearby - tree, bush, telephone pole, whatever... it's not hard!! 😁