“I’ve got a guy!” (in my best mafia voice)

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Skyler said:

Zen said:
@Skyler
Your local junior golf program would love you to donate what you can. It’s also tax-deductible.

We give hundreds of balls to the First Tee as well.

Good on you.

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@Skyler
Fire user name.

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I live next to a golf course and during the summer I’ll take my dog and go walk twilight hours. I pick up balls and bring them home then sell them to pay for my own golfing. Mid-season I typically have around 5,000 balls sorted. That guy’s prices are real close to what I charge also. End of the season I always sell them for cheaper just so I don’t have to store them all winter. Last sale of the year guy bought just under 500. If I had a local junior program I’d probably donate a ton. I hardly ever buy range balls either as I take the ones with blemishes/damage or discolored and hit those.

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You gotta have a guy!

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We are starting to brush cut marshy areas at my course and I’ve found a few hundred already this year.

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Honestly… I could be that guy, I have 3 five-gallon buckets of premium golf balls that are brands I don’t use… like a bunch of Chrome, TP5, Z-star, tour B, staff, plus the x variants. Honestly was going to try playing the Wilson Staff X balls, they outperformed everything in robotic testing, but Titleist didn’t put balls out in 2024, so by next season, they will probably be best again. Callaway Chrome Tour do have noticeably better distance than ProV1x, but it’s like a mental thing putting I need the Titleist arrow, I don’t like the 3 lines some of the Callaway have, though weirdly the soccer (football) pattern ones I putt really well with… not sure why.

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I think those Callaway balls are from my last round.

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I was playing in Florida last year. Par 3 over the water. Machine on the bank with a roller dragging from side to side. The amount of balls that it pulled out was ridiculous.
As usual, I knocked my ball in the water. When I got up to the guy I pointed to a ball and said that’s my ball right there. He said pick any ten balls and get out of here. So all 4 of us got 10 balls each for free. Sweet.

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@Luca
Haha. What an awesome dude!

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I use the yellow Bridgestone Brx balls. It’s to the point that I have a hard time tracking any other colored ball.

I got a good deal on them this summer so now I have 200 of them.

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Ben said:
I use the yellow Bridgestone Brx balls. It’s to the point that I have a hard time tracking any other colored ball.

I got a good deal on them this summer so now I have 200 of them.

I use the Bridgestone e12 colored. I have some Callaway Yellow Triple Tracks too that I absolutely cannot see at all. I have to use the Bridgestones simply because I can see the bloody things! But I do like the way they play as well.

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I’m an assistant superintendent at a very nice private golf course. I haven’t had to purchase balls in many years. These rich guys just leave brand new balls in the rough, sometimes the fairway, because who has time for that nonsense?

Maybe they got rich with that mindset? Maybe I should follow more closely? I don’t know lol.

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I actually just cleaned all the ones I’ve found in the near three months of me golfing this year…158 total. Only started with 36 and still have two left hahaha.

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I’m not good enough to know the difference between new high-end balls and mid-used balls. So I just play what I find unless it’s a really good ball, which I keep at home in a Cheeto puffs container. Since I have so many balls, I’m my friends’ guy. I have something like 500+ balls.

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I take care of a building adjacent to a golf course. Once a week I stop by and walk the property and normally pick up 75 to 100 balls. It’s always the same spots that accumulate the balls too.

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Ehhh they fell off a truck… (mafia voice)

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Good buy. I exclusively play those lime green matte finish Callaway SuperSofts on par-3 courses and I really dig them. Highly recommended!

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I’ve got a guy… it’s my buddy’s 10-year-old kid who lives next to the course :joy:.

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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.

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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.

These specifically have not necessarily been in the pond. The ones he gets out of the pond he sells in bulk at bulk rates because he says they will buy balls no matter the condition. Minimum 10,000.