Golf ball litter is becoming an environmental concern on this planet. CNN Says:
“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…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.“
The Danish Golf Association, say that lost golf balls pose an environmental hazard, taking up to 1,000 years to decompose and releasing poisonous heavy metals. These heavy metal attach “themselves to the ground sediment and poison the surrounding flora and fauna” when in water. Heavy metals used in golf ball production include tungsten, cobalt and lead.
Oh my goodness, what a crisis!
At first I thought that the title “Danish Golf Union talking balls” suggested that the Danish Golf Union were talking rubbish. Then again, three hundred million balls per year, … sheesh!
I would’ve never thought that all the lost golf balls we as golfers lose throughout the years would pose as an environmental threat!!! I knew there was a concern with golf tees being a threat but never the ball.. It does make sense if you think about it.. Tees have gone biodegradable.. Curious to know if golf ball manufacturers could replace some of the harmful materials in their golf balls with some more eco-friendly ones without compromising the performance of the ball.
I am with the other comments. I never even thought about the golf ball as a threat but if you think about it look at all of the tires that we have stored around the world without a solution for disposal.
But there is one consolation, the golf balls are basically in pockets of land called golf courses and not spread all over the world.
If it were not such a serious issue, it was rather funny to read. Good Gosh! Balls!
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nice topic it will help a lot for the new golfer.
keep it up.
thank you for the giving us the new information regarding the golf ball
i hope it can help a lot of people especially to all who loves golf.
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just read your article again.maybe we can ask some government official for a help on how to handle this crisis..
That’s hilarious! Golf balls are going to take over the world! Great post, thanks
great post.it gives a community more information and reminders.
That’s a lot of lost golf balls!
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