Yes, there is a life after life for used golf balls

Hundreds and hundreds of golf balls are either lost or discarded each day.

But like shuttlecocks and cricket balls past their sell-by date, there is life-after-life for the little white ball that has a specified velocity and can be hit to over 300 yards.

Golf balls are expensive but they are also expendable.

However, thanks to a wonderful initiative by DP World a total of 280,000 golf balls have been collected over the past two years and have been given a new life at golf academies, schools and smaller clubs around the world

The Dubai-based global supply chain company is raising its efforts to grow grassroots golf around the world and improve the sustainability of golf balls through a unique, heart-warming scheme.

Instead of ending up in landfills, rough grass or being stowed away in cupboards at home, these unwanted golf balls are systematically collected during the season to be repurposed and redistributed to support grassroots golf projects. Through this initiative, more people now have access to the sport that may have been out of their reach.

Over the past two seasons, 280,000 golf balls have been collected in numerous ways by the DP World Second Life container which travels around the world.

Donations were made from DP World Tour players, fans, and governing bodies or rescued by professional golf ball divers, ball-collecting dogs, and children’s golf ball hunts.

So far, DP World has shipped balls around the world to places like the Junior Golf Foundation in Kenya, the South African Disabled Golf Association and the Golf Foundation in India.

As the initiative made its first appearance on the DP World Tour this season at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic, Dubai Golf donated 18,000 golf balls to the collection, helping to boost DP World’s to 280,000 collected golf balls.

leslie@khaleejtimes.com

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