I always see ads on Facebook of people selling golf balls. Saw one for a guy just a few minutes away from me and I’ve been wanting to grab some fancy TP5s but don’t want to pay fancy prices. Turns out he works at a golf course. He said right now he has estimated around 13,000 balls in his shed.
He said he sells on marketplace what he can and what he doesn’t he sells them in bulk for 25¢ a ball. His largest bulk sale was 22,000 balls two years ago.
But he sells directly on marketplace. The little logo TP5s and any other specialty ball with special markings, is one dollar per ball. All other premium balls including white TP5s and ProV1s are 75¢ a ball, decent balls like the E12s and Super Softs are 50¢ a ball.
So today, 60 balls for $40. 20 of those balls being them fancy TP5s.
Now, I know a lot of you are going to pipe up about how you haven’t purchased a golf ball in 400 years, that you just crawl around through the bushes to find them yourself, and I understand that. I could also go grocery shopping at the dumpster behind the store, but I choose not to. However, I WILL snag up a good deal if it presents itself. Haha.
Anyway, I told you all of that so I could tell you this, check Facebook marketplace. Also, what is everyone’s opinion on used golf balls? I’m just gonna lose them again anyway. And somebody needs to accept all the orphaned balls out there or eventually we’d all be walking around on piles of lost golf balls.
Vale said:
I’ve got a guy like this too - just bins and bins full of various types, and they look mint. I wonder where these guys get this many?
He said as a groundskeeper you get to know where the prime spots are. And he told me one year they had to drain a pond that was on a dog leg part three and he said that he pulled around 10,000 balls out of that pond alone in a period of six nights. He said obviously they don’t drain it often, but they needed to run a pipe for something, so it had to be pumped dry.
My dad has at least 2,000 golf balls in the basement from scooping them out of lakes/ponds and rivers. When there aren’t a lot of groups behind us, we like to check the woods for lost balls as well. I sort out the shitty balls like Top Flite, Slazenger, Nitro, etc., so I can just use them at the range and save the good balls for the course.
@Neely
Maybe it’s all mental but I swear those balls feel like a toy. Light and plasticy(?) is the only way I can describe it. I feel like I can never hit them good lmao and it’s up there with the top 3 balls I find, but I swear I’ve never seen them in stores. It’s like they just grow in the woods.
Zen said:
Golf balls that have been in a pond lose compression over a short period of time. They will lose optimal performance. If that matters to you.
Sick of people repeating this nonsense. Science disagrees.
I am that guy but I only have about 3000 balls in the garage and I don’t sell. My girlfriend only plays ProV1’s and I only play TP5x and now Chrome Tour as well. The rest I give to friends and I haven’t bought balls in 3 years.
