Do Golf Balls Count Among The Most Expensive Of All Golf Accessories

Apart from the essential equipment and accessories, there is no shortage or a lack of choice in various gadgetry and fancy items that a cavalier golfer can throw his money on, A golfer may spend thousands of dollars on golf clubs without any pangs because there you pay for a perfect match for your playing style, plus quality and durability; but what he is most likely to resent buying are golf balls although they are by far the cheapest of the normal golfing equipment and accessories. This is the stuff that a golfer is called upon to buy over and over since they are easily and quite frequently lost among bushes, ditches, and other waterways as well as sand traps on golf courses. Although a cartridge of 12 balls may cost only around $ 25, it can add up to a formidable amount if you are a regular golfer prone to lose balls quite often. We give below a few tips that would be useful to you in saving a good part of the money that you would otherwise lose on too frequent purchase of golf balls.

Cultivate a good nose for sniffing out golf balls lost by other golfers or maybe even by you earlier. If you make it a practice to walk close to shrubs and bushes, ditches, small ponds and lakes etc., you would certainly be rewarded with some free golf balls; which when well washed after reaching home would look and feel as good as any new balls. Maybe this would be a little tough if you have to stretch your reach far into thorny bushes or if you have to wade into the water to retrieve them; some may think it even embarrassing if someone were to spot you creeping about bushes sniffing for lost balls. Surely most of them would not know whether you were retrieving one of your own balls that had gone far off a target. As long as you take care not to make it evident to others that you were scavenging for golf balls, it would really be worth a little trouble you take in this particular area considering the savings in money it could bring you. 

For those of you who feel very sensitive about looking for lost golf balls in this fashion, there is the option of buying used balls at very favorable discounts. You would hardly be able to differentiate between new and used balls. One disadvantage, if you may call it so, is that you would generally get used balls in matching colors instead of the uniformity of color obtainable if your were buying them brand new. Whether a ball is new or a used, or expensive or cheap, as long as it is not damaged, would make hardly any noticeable difference to the game you play. Especially for the regular golfers, this is a very good way to economize. Even the hardness and the spin of the ball would not vary to any appreciable extent to be noticed by even some of the most seasoned golfers. Just to test a used ball, take one new and one used and strike them consecutively to see if you see or feel any difference in their behavior. If the used balls pass this acid test, then there is no reason why you should not purchase used ones instead of new ones.

The savings you derive by finding lost balls on the course or by buying highly discounted used golf balls may not amount to much for some. However, you should look at it more objectively in the context that money saved is additional money to your wallet. Another alternative to finding lost balls and buying cheap used balls is to try to minimize your losses of golf balls on the course. There are balls that glow especially in the dark and also balls with GPS devices embedded that transmit radio signals facilitating easy location of balls that find their way into numerous hiding places available on golf courses. However, the price you pay for their purchase may not be worth the savings, unless you were able to retrieve them several times over very long periods of time.

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