[outlaw]

Originally Posted by tomwed

What will our successors think when they excavate the Villages and find millions of golf balls?
Will they think it must be a ritual where people send them into a hole and make a sacrifice?
Or will they get it all wrong?

They will probably play them on executive courses, or on water holes.

[tomwed]

Originally Posted by outlaw

They will probably play them on executive courses, or on water holes.

London, England (CNN) -- 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. It seems the simple plastic golf ball is increasingly becoming a major litter problem.

From 82 Cool Facts [actually it's old news now]
Statistically, there were 5,810,493 golf balls lost in The Villages last year.

At least one out of fifty balls lost in the US last year was lost in The Villages, half of those on Pelican.

[Taltarzac725]

Originally Posted by tomwed

London, England (CNN) -- 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. It seems the simple plastic golf ball is increasingly becoming a major litter problem.

From 82 Cool Facts [actually it's old news now]
Statistically, there were 5,810,493 golf balls lost in The Villages last year.

At least one out of fifty balls lost in the US last year was lost in The Villages, half of those on Pelican.

What so special about Pelican as far as loss of golf balls is concerned?

[tomwed]

Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

What so special about Pelican as far as loss of golf balls is concerned?

It was a joke. You need to carry 7 out of 9 greens from the black tees. Many golfers avoid that kind of shot.

[logdog]

Takes a lot of balls to play Pelican from the black or gold tees...

[John_W]

There was an interesting story on 60 Minutes a few months ago about the fellow who discovered the Titantic in 1985. He explores about six months of the year and was in the Gulf of Mexico when Lara Logan of 60 minutes made her report. It was neat to see so many sunken ships in the Gulf, even a German U-boat, which they said were prevelant during the war. One neat moment was when they were viewing a ship at 2,000 ft a large Sperm Whale swam across the camera filling the entire screen for quite a few seconds.





If you want to see the story, here's a link The Unknown America - CBS News

[David Moon]

200+ years a cow poop.

[dbussone]

Originally Posted by tomwed

London, England (CNN) -- 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. It seems the simple plastic golf ball is increasingly becoming a major litter problem.

From 82 Cool Facts [actually it's old news now]
Statistically, there were 5,810,493 golf balls lost in The Villages last year.

At least one out of fifty balls lost in the US last year was lost in The Villages, half of those on Pelican.

Tom - I have to disagree. 75% of my lost balls are on Pelican. This is after 3 years of play and most of it on the championship courses. I dislike that course intensely.

[murray607]

I believe it is Ponce De Leon's fabled Fountain of Youth. If any Villager bathes in it, they will immediately return with the body and mind of an 18 year old............................awe forget it it's never going to happen