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Search results for "Lake balls"

Oct 28th, 2015 Article

Lake ball diver nets $15million

Fair play to them, lake ball divers have to deal – not only with murky waters and stinky fish – but also dodge sunken golf carts, dead bird skulls, alligators and – occasionally – dead bodies in pursuit of diving for lake balls. Glenn Berger has turned it into an entrepreneurial art form. 

Dec 12th, 2015 Article

Man drowns diving for lake balls

Divers on Friday morning found the body of a man in a pond at a Williamson County golf course in Texas. The man, who has not been positively identified, died while illegally scuba diving for golf balls to sell, said Capt. Mike Gleason of the Williamson County sheriff’s office.

Sep 1st, 2016 Article

The Foozler: He hates golf, we make him play

Back in 1998 John Calabria, Vice President of research at Maxfli, estimated that more than half a billion golf balls went missing every year. We sent the Foozler to get some back for us...

Jul 11th, 2017 Article

Golf company director jailed

A company director has been jailed after a golf ball diver drowned in a freezing lake at a course in Wales.

Oct 28th, 2016 Article

Students take on 'ocean destroying' Pebble Beach

Teenagers Alex Weber and Jack Johnston, students at Carmel High School, have taken on Pebble Beach Golf Club accusing the golf club of destroying the ocean floor at Carmel Bay, where thousands of hackers' golf balls have plunged into the ocean...

Jul 8th, 2017 Article

Gator attacks golf ball diver

Who knew alligators were so protective of their golf balls? This one – let's call him Steve – clearly had some lake ball re-sale deal already in place covering the Florida area.

Aug 7th, 2019 Article

Golf Joke of the week

Derek The Donkey, GolfPunk's grumpy horse-envier once again delivers his 'Joke of the Week'. As you know he likes nothing better than a proper good laugh as long as it's at someone else's expense...

Jul 1st, 2019 Article

Golf Joke of the week

Derek The Donkey, GolfPunk's grumpy horse-envier once again delivers his 'Joke of the Week'. As you know he likes nothing better than a proper good laugh as long as it's at someone else's expense...

May 17th, 2018 Article

The Genius Ball – golfers' dreams come true

We've been looking over some of the best read stories for 2017, and this story about the golf ball you cannot lose attracted a lot of attention from GolfPunk readers. Golfer looking forlornly for ball in rough/trees etc: "Someone really should invent a golf ball you can't lose..." Well, someone has...

Nov 7th, 2018 Article

GolfPunk goes to the Bahamas!!

Get your golf boots on skinneeeyyy, the plane for the Bahamas is about to start boarding and it's got your name on it. Woaahh, I'm going to Barba..