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I, like probably all of you, have numerous used balls I used/collected/etc over the years. Realistically I am never going to use these ever again being that the kind of ball I use now is much better in performance. And now the newer used balls I have are much better than the old ones I have.

I was thinking:

1. Take them to the local range and hit them all there.
2. Throw them away

any suggestions?

Buy a shag bag, fill it with balls and practice chipping and pitching every day.

I don't have any old balls.....they're either new or they're lost!
No, really I have a 9 year old that doesn't care what the ball says on it as long as it's clean and not damaged. If I happen to find a ProV1 it goes in my practice round stash. Everything else goes in my son's bag.

If you happen to have a number of used balls that you don't plan to use, there's plenty of youth programs around that would love to have them. Call any of your local courses and I'll bet they will take them off your hands.

Well I'm lucky the house I have has about a 1 acre yard so I can put the balls in a bucket and go out in the yard and work on my chipping. Great way to get the short game in shape.

I give alot to my course, and i also give some to my dad, he golfs about 20 times a year so he needs around 40 balls or so, but i have a feild behind my house owned by the town and i actually used some of my dads extra grass seed and made my own little tee box and then putt flags out on the feild to practice with, it is about a 250 yard feild in length and 150 wide. It is fun to practice with and actually gets me hitting golf balls in the spring about a motnh before my course opens, depending on weather.

I bought a lot of 400 "experienced" balls on e-bay and hit them out into the woods behind me. I have pulled about 30 or so of these balls out, and have them in my shag bag I take to the range. After an afternoon of hitting balls into the wood, me and the kids go a hunting. We find quite a few, but not all of them.

I have a couple of 5 gallon buckets that I toss old "rocks" into when I clean out the bag. It usually takes about 2 years to fill the 2 buckets with balls I won't play. When the wife has a garage sale, I offer the buckets of balls. I have signs made up that say "10 cents each or 5 for $1.00". Interesting to see the comments of that pricing strategy... or the lack thereof. A couple of months ago, I had enough to put on the sale and they were the first thing to go. Construction worker from down the street bought the whole lot of $50.00. He was going to give them to his boss who "plays a ton of golf". Just what someone needs, 10 gallon of old Top Flites, Molitors, and Spaldings that have cart path scuffs and have lain in the rough for a couple of years. The real question is... Why do I even bother to pick them up and bring them home???

A co-worker of mine has a child that's getting into golf - I always give him my old/found balls, and any old golf stuff (magazines, old clubs, widgets, tees, stuff like that).

Put me in the shag bag club. I go to a nicely mowed spot in a local park 3-4 times a week and practice my 60yd and under game.

kids bag is the deposit point for most old balls now. at what point does your golf game evolve to where you don't change from a good ball to an old ball for a tough carry over water, etc? Is it a maturity thing or a financial thing? How old was everyone when you quit having a little pocket of 'water balls' in your bag. Now you just tee up the big dog every hole?

What to do with old golf balls......kind of a philisophical question........deep, real deep.....

still the dilemma continues..I'm just going to "donate" them at my local range.

When I got my clubs from my co-worker, and when I bought an old bag from a second-hand store, both had a couple of dozen old balls in them. I've used some, hit a few onto the driving range if I really want just one more swing... I also used a couple to try and draw nice parallel lines on them to check out my putts. But that didn't work too well, so they mainly sit around the house and roll of my desk every once in a while.

i too use mine for chipping in the backyard and putting on the carpet in the house sometimes I even use them to chip in the house but only real short chips to the end of the hallway as soon as I break something I am sure my wife will end that....

Hi all,

I got a few, ie 20+, for when playing courses with several water features....oddly enough I know how the round's going to go before starting (nothing like experience I guess).

Got a game booked with three other guys from my club at this course, it's definately going to swallow a few.

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Cheers,
Jim

Old balls go into the 5-gallon bucket for use in the field out back. Inevitably, some get lost or get hit places I don't want to go to retrieve them. That's why the bucket never fills up. I had no idea that so many golfers use 5-gallon buckets, which also make nice targets out in the field too.