Ecobioball - A single use golf ball that's perfect for use where balls are just hit for swing practice, like from cruise liners. This 100% biodegradable golf ball can take the full swing of a professional, yet biodegrades within 48 hours of hitting the water. The Spanish Ecobioball manufacturer claims that it won’t harm marine life and... awesomeness alert... the core of the ball even contains fish food.
Dixon Golf - Dixon Golf offers several different balls with different specifications. They're all eco-friendly and high performance, 100% recyclable and made from reprocessable materials. With the company's recycling program you can recycle any brand of used golf ball at a Dixon Golf retailer and get a credit towards the purchase of new balls.
Wilson Eco-Core - These are high performance balls with a core made from recycled rubber tires and packaging made from recycled board stock lessening negative environmental impact.
Lobster Balls - When news of an environmentally friendly golf ball made out of discarded lobster shells hit the wires recently, it quickly transcended golf media and went viral. Developed by a team from The University of Maine and the Lobster Institute, a joint Canada-U.S. industry organization these balls are still in the prototype phase, but the amount of interest the story generated is proof that eco-freindly golf balls could be huge... as a business I mean.
I love the idea of golf balls that DONT take 1,000 years to decompose, particulary since I contribute more than my share to woodlands and water hazards wherever I play.
ReplyDeleteWe went on a cruise last year and I expected to be able to hit balls off the deck but ended up with minigolf and a simulator. Next time around I'm looking for a cruise line that uses Ecobio balls.
ReplyDeleteThere's lots of work to be done before environmentally friendly balls are more than a novelty.
ReplyDeleteI think the problem is that golf ball manufacturers focus all of their R&D dollars on creating balls that get more distance and that increased distance is one of the main reasons courses have had to get bigger and bigger (many say hi-tech balls are at fault more than hi-tech clubs) and it's kind of a lose/lose for the environment.
ReplyDeleteI applaud the companies you mention and hope that the major manufacturers might get on-board, and seeing how much press the Lobster ball story is getting, maybe direct some of the innovation dollars towards the creation of balls that are eco-friendly and high performance.
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ReplyDeletelast year my golf foursome volunteered to go to the BP oil spill once we learned golf balls might be the answer to plug the well
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Thanks for sharing the idea now we can play a golf in eco friendly nature in the beach of Goa.
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