Golf Ball Recovery Business

[Jamie_r]

AHhh haha
Scubaboard you still got it!

 

[Jamie_r]

So why do we need you to dive for to get golf balls???

Why not just make the agreement with our local golf course?


In other thoughts... why not make Golf Pro Shops into Dive Shops also? (Kinda makes sense right as they are both expensive sports with a select crowd?....) BTW... We'll be teaching Open Water certification in the pond on hole #3 this weekend. If you students hear "FORE" then it's time to submerge, quickly!.

AHhh haha
Scubaboard you still got it!

 

[Ron Brandt]

If you could make $100k a year picking up golf balls underwater, then you'd have every divemaster, dive instructor, golf pro, plumber, goat milker, and redneck diving for golf balls.

I just don't buy making $100 grand a year. Otherwise you'd have every member of Scubaboard out there picking up golf balls.

Actually there are lots of people like myself that actually tried this,I have done commercial work before. Golf ball diving is not for everyone !

I also know of LDS operators that keep their business running by gold ball diving and they sneek in under the tax man and do make $60,000 a year !

Ron

 

[mike_s]

Oh I'm sure there is money to be made in it... Just if it was that much ($100k + a year) everyone would be doing it.

Also, golf is a semi seasonal sport, especially up north. (Like in Montana). So you definately won't find as many balls being lost in the winter as you will during the summer months in most locations because of reduced pay. I'm sure in Florida though the number of golf courses per capita is prob the largest in the nation and golf thrives in the winter.

Montana Mike, The 5 cent price was based on you buy balls and pay 10 cents each on them. In a previous post I referrenced that it would prob cost 5 cents each to ship the balls to you (in bulk), thus reducing the balls net worth to 5 cents a ball and reducing yearly gross income back down to $36,000 or so.

Hey... if you're really making $100 grand a year marketing with other peoples balls, more power to you though.

 

[plot]

ok, the last question we all are dying to know. how many fingers have you had bitten by crawfish, catfish, turtles and rogue aligators in Los angeles?

I'm wondering this too... turtles and what not a problem when fumbling around in mud in 0 vis?

 

[Bob3]

... how many fingers have you had bitten by crawfish, catfish, turtles and rogue aligators ...

Did I mention that there is also a sale on those spiffy Endurotech Kevlar Gloves?
Nine out of ten 3-fingered golfball divers wish they had been using them.

 

[Chuxter]

Hey Mike what is the policy on public lakes that have a golf course on them? Any special permission needed for ball retreival ? Also to the statement that golf is a rich mans sport you must not play yourself because it is getting more affordable all the time it all depends on hw nuch you want to spend.

 

[hockeyman]

is the equipment given or do u need to have your own and also what type of poinds are you diving in cold warm big small deep showel

 

[Chad MacQueen]

I am interested in diving for golf balls and I live here in N.C. where there are plenty of golf courses. How do you get the golf balls clean after they have been sitting of the bottom for a month? Are there companies near me that will buy the balls that I recover?

 

[muddiver]

Dude, you need to get a dry suit, perferably a vulkanized rubber suit. Also you should be diving a full fasce mask or like me, an air hat.

I am in So. Cal. and I wouldn't mind talking about some part-time work.

wemundkowsky@dslextreme.com