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cnn.com - 11/10/2009

Golf balls: 'Humanity's signature litter'

— cnn.com — Concern is growing in some corners that golf-ball litter is a growing problem.... (more) Golf balls: 'Humanity's signature litter'

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waggleroom.com - 11/10/2009

I'm Calling BS on This Loch Ness Golf Balls Stuff

— waggleroom.com — Last week, everyone got their panties in a bunch about the video from the folks at SeaTrepid.com showing... exactly three golf balls that they found while scouring underneath the surface of Loch Ness for the hoax of a monster rumored to be in the lake.  The CNN article ... (more) I'm Calling BS on This Loch Ness Golf Balls Stuff

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Golf Balls Called “Humanity’s Signature Litter.”
Golf Blogger — November 10, 2009 Don’t look now, but the environmentalists are going after our beloved sport: 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. The scale of the dilemma was underlined recently in Scotland, where scientists—who scoured the watery depths in a submarine hoping to discover evidence of the prehistoric Loch Ness monster—were surprised to find ...

I'm Calling BS on This Loch Ness Golf Balls Stuff
Waggle Room — Last week, everyone got their panties in a bunch about the video from the folks at SeaTrepid.com showing exactly three golf balls that they found while scouring underneath the surface of Loch Ness for the hoax of a monster rumored to be in the lake.  The CNN article reporting the story claimed that "thousands" of balls were at the bottom of Loch Ness.  The follow up story then magnified the initial report of thousands of balls into "hundreds of thousands." Clearly, over the five hundred years that people have been playing golf, some of the locals probably took the opportunity to work on ...