Posted on 09/29/2023 3:34:39 AM PDT by Adder
Multiple explosions at a factory in Taipei, Taiwan last Friday resulted in at least nine people, including four firefighters, being killed in a fire after parts of the building collapsed and trapped workers. While the loss of life is far more impactful and tragic, the tragedy is also expected to have a significant impact on the golf ball industry around the world.
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Look for a lot of “death by gator” articles as kids at Kiawah, Hilton Head, and Florida golf courses go diving for golf balls.
That’s why I gave up golf and took up bowling.
I lose way less balls now.
Bwahahaha! Sound advice.
How will life go on?
golfball warming
they have been warning us about this
time for a climate emergency
Was it a Titleist ???
I rarely lose golf balls, one time I used the same bowl for 3 years.
But one day when it was full on Autumn I got a free round at a PGA golf course I lost 6 or 7 balls under leaves that day.
On another note that I was at Hilton Head checking out the PGA course down there and there were a there was a tourist attraction off one of the fairways, it was an old shell marl foundation of a colonial house, I took a detour went over there and I was looking around at the foundation and I noticed all these white dots on the ground I walked over to that area and entered “slicers hellhole” - I must have picked up four dozen balls that day and they were all corporate logo balls. I’m still golfing with those balls.
When I’m golfing my local Muni, and when conditions are very dry in the summer the retaining pond on the 4th fairway is dry, take a walk through it... a golfball honey hole if there ever was one.
The downside? You can’t be choosy when the golfballs are rescues.
FLOG IS THE ONLY “SPORT” That’s more BORING THAN TENNIS.
That will force manchild husbands to spend more time with their painful wives and spoiled kids.
Firefighters were hindered in their efforts to battle the inferno when they found they had brought only two hoses with them and that they had (ahem) a hole in one.
better quit “going for it” for awhile and take the nice lazy 7 iron instead. You can still get a birdie.
better quit “going for it” for awhile and take the nice lazy 7 iron instead. You can still get a birdie. /s/
We’re heading into Winter, half the country stops playing golf. I suspect they will be rebuilding and we’ll all be just fine. Besides, who doesn’t have a large container of slightly bruised balls they are saving for no reason.
Based on my recall of that Seinfeld episode it was indeed a Titleist.
This was also the episode where George told his girlfriend he was a Marine Biologist. Then later in the episode when they are walking on the beach they come upon a beached whale.
Then one of the people in the crowd yells out, “is anyone a marine biologist?”
Of which George’s new girlfriend responds yes. Putting George in a precarious situation.
Of course, they soon discovered that the whales issues was a Titleist golf ball stuck in its blow hole.
They just do not write comedy shows like that anymore.
**FLOG IS THE ONLY “SPORT” That’s more BORING THAN TENNIS.**
Anybody that ever worked golf course maintenance can tell you that early mornings about daybreak, on spraying days, the air reaks of pesticides. Years ago I delivered bulk sand for greens, tees, and bunkers. When doing so in the Chicago metro, I would often preload the afternoon before so I could be at the course, dump the sand, and be leaving town as rush hour was picking up. While at the course I would often see the sprayers already applying the stinking stuff.
I tell golfers to avoid touching their face or handling food after touching golf shoes, balls, and the club end of the clubs.
I’ve been on over a hundred golf courses, but never have played the game. Just a time robber and a vanity. I quit that job mainly because I see it that way: utter vanity.
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