+Team Flying Dachshund Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 I have noticed that golf balls are a common place in caches. I also have observed that many people are put off by this. I was thinking what could be done about this. I know it would be imposable to ban them from caches. So I reasoned that if they are going to be in caches anyway they could be "modified" to spice em up a little bit. So I made a guide to make ordinary golf balls extraordinarily interesting golf balls.. Here are a few of my ideas. If you have any other ideas please post them here. 1. Paint them in a color that will make them blend in with there surroundings. 2. Drill a hole in to them to make them interesting caches. WARNING THIS IS TO ONLY BE DONE TO RANGE BALLS AS THEY DON'T A CENTER THAT WILL EXPLODE OR HURT YOU. Please be EXTREMELY careful when doing this. Use safety glasses and gloves. Or you could just glue a film canister to the bottom and place it in the ground. 3. Glue random things to them like dirt or leaves. Quote Link to comment
kayaker22589 Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 I've done this with 4 golf balls so far. I have never had one blow up but I always wear canvas cover alls, a paintball mask, and work gloves. Quote Link to comment
+Eric K Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 The only way I could see them being interesting if geocaching sold golf balls with their logo on them. Quote Link to comment
+Seamus Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 One of my first finds was a golf ball with an actual DARPA logo on it - thought it was pretty appropriate for a sport that uses the global positioning system that they developed for us. That was in 2001. I have yet to see another golf ball that's even remotely as interesting as that. Quote Link to comment
+Polgara Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 Mail them to me. I like golfing, unfortunately i'm no good at it, and golf balls can get pricey especially if you're always in the drink like me... Quote Link to comment
+wimseyguy Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 Nice new in the wrapper golf balls are fine. Sunday I saw a logo 3pack with tees and ball marker from some church. I wished I had brought something tradeworthy from the car, but it was really hot and I was lazy. It's the so scuffed up I won't play it anymore, or found in the woods on the way to the cache balls that generate the venom. No different that a broken mctoy vs. a nice new one. I wouldn't glue leaves to a ball unless I was making IT the cache container. Quote Link to comment
+Team DEMP Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 I think anyone really into golf wouldn't use a golfball from a cache anyway. I know I wouldn't unless it was a new sleeve of Titlelists (and I think that's too expensive for the folks putting single (often used) golf balls in a cache. Quote Link to comment
+JMBella Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 I will trade good new or used golf ball sometimes. I don't play much anymore since I started caching so I've got a bunch laying in the bottom of my bag. Quote Link to comment
uperdooper Posted August 4, 2004 Share Posted August 4, 2004 a cacher in michigan paints little borg faces on them for a sig item. they are pretty cool looking. Quote Link to comment
kayaker22589 Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 Mail them to me. I like golfing, unfortunately i'm no good at it, and golf balls can get pricey especially if you're always in the drink like me... I actually found most of mine in the woods woods and a river near a golf course about 2 miles from my house. Quote Link to comment
+Team Flying Dachshund Posted August 5, 2004 Author Share Posted August 5, 2004 a cacher in michigan paints little borg faces on them for a sig item. they are pretty cool looking. Got a pic of them??? Quote Link to comment
uperdooper Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 a cacher in michigan paints little borg faces on them for a sig item. they are pretty cool looking. Got a pic of them??? this is one he turned into a travel bug. the cacher is trippy1976. Quote Link to comment
AC Student Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 Just like McToys, new golf balls make good trade items. Used, dirty, scuffed, chewed on, etc... do not. Quote Link to comment
+Osmirik Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 Another interesting possibility: Figure out just how many indents (and where they are) a golfball has. Get two colors of paint, blue and green. Write a program to convert a low-res digital map of the world to a series of dots corresponding to the golfball's indents. Paint the ball accordingly. Quote Link to comment
+Team Flying Dachshund Posted August 5, 2004 Author Share Posted August 5, 2004 (edited) All you would need is the bianary code. That would take over 1 mil golf balls. Edited August 5, 2004 by Team Flying Dachshund Quote Link to comment
+4x4 Trail Busters Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 We just generally just toss them as far as we can every time we find one. I think it is disgusting to open a cache and find an old used golf ball, as well as used broken toys. We just purge the cache and place new items in them and wright in the log what was thrown out. We don't care if a kid or kids are caching with their parents or not, if you can't leave new items in exchange then DON'T LEAVE ANYTHING AT ALL! TNLNSL. Quote Link to comment
+Team Flying Dachshund Posted August 5, 2004 Author Share Posted August 5, 2004 porg ball TB/found webpage for Quote Link to comment
+The Commissar! Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 Every golfball is sacred, every golfball is good, and if a golfball is wasted God gets quite irate! Quote Link to comment
uperdooper Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 porg ball TB/found webpage for i have one like the one in the last pic. cool sig item. Quote Link to comment
+Beta Test Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 What about glof balls? Any neat ideas for those? Quote Link to comment
umc Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 Haha, trippy is my boy, I'll have to let him know he's being talked about. His thing is "saving geocaching, one golf ball at a time" Cracks me up. Quote Link to comment
+El Diablo Posted August 5, 2004 Share Posted August 5, 2004 My question is, where do these balls come from? I've been on many hiking trails that were no where near a golf course and find a golf ball. I personally pick them up because they come in handy when I have to make a hard shot over water and don't want to chance a good ball being lost. Yes, I suck at golf. My son-in-law and I hit about 300 junk golf balls from my front yard across the road into some dense woods, I know one day someone will clear that land and scratch their heads wondering where all those balls came from. El Diablo Quote Link to comment
+Team Flying Dachshund Posted August 7, 2004 Author Share Posted August 7, 2004 Would you be for or against caches whose sole puropse is to collect golf balls. Ex you must leave a golf ball and write on it as a log. Quote Link to comment
+El Diablo Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Would you be for or against caches whose sole puropse is to collect golf balls. Ex you must leave a golf ball and write on it as a log. If they were new. It would also be cool to have logo golf balls. There are a lot of people that collect them. El Diablo Quote Link to comment
uperdooper Posted August 7, 2004 Share Posted August 7, 2004 Haha, trippy is my boy, I'll have to let him know he's being talked about. His thing is "saving geocaching, one golf ball at a time" Cracks me up. i was caching in the linden area with Hysteria and i found one of his golf balls in a cash. grabbed it so fast my brother didn't have time to see it. it is now proudly displayed on my desk as one of my fave sig items. Quote Link to comment
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