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Over 1 Billion Golf Balls are sold every
year
1 Palm Tree cut down at the Olympic
Club in San Francisco in 1999 and
disgorged 200 golf balls
In an average year, all but the
scuzziest of ranges will replace 100
percent of their golf ball stock. Gartner
figures that 40 percent or so are lost in
the mire or over the fence; 40 percent
are “retired” to the garbage bin and
the rest are stolen.
An estimated 518 Million Rounds of
Golf are played every year
The average golfer loses 4.5 balls per
round of golf.
year
1 Palm Tree cut down at the Olympic
Club in San Francisco in 1999 and
disgorged 200 golf balls
In an average year, all but the
scuzziest of ranges will replace 100
percent of their golf ball stock. Gartner
figures that 40 percent or so are lost in
the mire or over the fence; 40 percent
are “retired” to the garbage bin and
the rest are stolen.
An estimated 518 Million Rounds of
Golf are played every year
The average golfer loses 4.5 balls per
round of golf.
Here are some interesting facts about
golf balls:
1,000,000,000 new golf balls are made
every year.
900,000,000 of these golf balls are
"lost" or scrapped every year.
The average golfer loses 1.3 balls per
round; that means the average
number of times a golf ball is hit before
it is lost is 67 (based on the average
handicap of the USGA of 15.1).
Research has shown a golf ball's core
can be hit 300,000 times without loss
of performance.
A range golf ball can be refinished at
least twice without loss of performance.
Also, see the article below from CNN
(04 November 2009):
London, England (CNN) -- Research
teams at the Danish Golf Union have
discovered it takes between 100 to
1,000 years for a golf ball to
decompose naturally. A startling fact
when it is also estimated 300 million
balls are lost or discarded in the United
States alone, every year. It seems the
simple plastic golf ball is increasingly
becoming a major litter problem.
The scale of the dilemma was
underlined recently in Scotland, where
scientists -- who scoured the watery
depths in a submarine hoping to
discover evidence of the prehistoric
Loch Ness monster -- were surprised
to find hundreds of thousands of golf
balls lining the bed of the loch.
It is thought tourists and locals have
used the loch as an alternative driving
range for many years. The footage
shot by underwater robotics team
SeaTrepid, can be seen below.
With an increasing number of golf balls
discarded each year, the Danish Golf
Association devised a number of tests
to determine the environmental impact
of golf balls on their surroundings.
golf balls:
1,000,000,000 new golf balls are made
every year.
900,000,000 of these golf balls are
"lost" or scrapped every year.
The average golfer loses 1.3 balls per
round; that means the average
number of times a golf ball is hit before
it is lost is 67 (based on the average
handicap of the USGA of 15.1).
Research has shown a golf ball's core
can be hit 300,000 times without loss
of performance.
A range golf ball can be refinished at
least twice without loss of performance.
Also, see the article below from CNN
(04 November 2009):
London, England (CNN) -- Research
teams at the Danish Golf Union have
discovered it takes between 100 to
1,000 years for a golf ball to
decompose naturally. A startling fact
when it is also estimated 300 million
balls are lost or discarded in the United
States alone, every year. It seems the
simple plastic golf ball is increasingly
becoming a major litter problem.
The scale of the dilemma was
underlined recently in Scotland, where
scientists -- who scoured the watery
depths in a submarine hoping to
discover evidence of the prehistoric
Loch Ness monster -- were surprised
to find hundreds of thousands of golf
balls lining the bed of the loch.
It is thought tourists and locals have
used the loch as an alternative driving
range for many years. The footage
shot by underwater robotics team
SeaTrepid, can be seen below.
With an increasing number of golf balls
discarded each year, the Danish Golf
Association devised a number of tests
to determine the environmental impact
of golf balls on their surroundings.