Lobster shells have recently been introduced into the golf market. That's right, Professor David Neivandt at the University of Maine has made many prototypes of golf balls that have a core made of lobster shells. The special thing about these new golf balls is that they are biodegradable and they only take about three weeks to decompose. These golf balls fly very similar to normal golf balls with irons, but with the driver the lobster core balls only fly 60 to 70 percent of the distance of the normal ball. These golf balls are more designed for use on cruise ships or at driving ranges that are on lakes or near the ocean. I would love to see them design a golf ball that is biodegradable and still performs like a regulation golf ball. I am not sure how big the market is for supplying golf balls to cruise ships and ranges on lakes and oceans. I would love to see this product take off. I feel like if the demand is there for this type of product, the biodegradable golf ball with find its place in the golf industry.
This is a really great idea! It is promising to see people are attempting to reform products used everyday with items that would usually go in the trash. If more people took the time to do this, our world and environment would be a much better place. I believe this new and improved biodegradable golf ball will continue to spark new ideas for other environmentally safe products.
ReplyDeleteThis biodegradable golf ball is a really great idea. Who would of thought that you could make a golf ball out of lobster shells. Lobster shells usually go to waste. Replacing iron with lobster shells seems really smart. It may not be the best golf ball and fly the same as a regular one, but it is helping the enviroment, and the game can still be played, just with a little twist.
ReplyDeleteI think this is really cool! It's great to see people being innovative in ways that most people wouldn't think of. I think it's good that whoever thought of this is using something on the inside of golf balls that we normally would just throw away. If it's helping the enviornment and altering the game slightly then I think we should use this to help create new ideas for other sports related things.
ReplyDeleteThis is a really cool idea, and I would have never even thought of it. I had no idea lobster shells were so strong, because they'd have to be to be able to make a golf ball. I definitely agree with the comments above about how this new invention is not only good for the golf industry, it's good for the world in general when it comes to creating environmentally safe products. I'm sure other products have been reformed in similar, safe ways, they just haven't gotten a start yet. Hopefully, with time, more people will strive to buy only environmentally safe products, which will force companies to supply products that meet their needs. In the future, maybe this new golf ball will work just as well as original golf balls.
ReplyDeleteI think that this is a great idea because there is no way to really find every golf ball that goes missing so if you think about it if you use on that is biodegradable then you are not polluting the environment.
ReplyDeleteAwesome idea! Anything that helps and doesn't hurt the environment is always good. For golfers like Andrew Ward, when they lose a lot of golf balls when they play golf, they would now not have to worry about polluting the environment.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great idea! Golfers lose gold balls all the time, so they wont have to worry about them polluting the environment, and going and looking for them. People should have thought of this before
ReplyDeleteThat is such a great idea! One of the only things I know about golf is that a lot of the golf balls end up in a lake or pond! I have an uncle who worked for a golf course and his job was to get the balls out of the lake, but other than him I have never heard of anyone getting those balls back. It's very cool that they are biodegradable, every little bit helps!
ReplyDeleteI think this is a really neat idea! It's really good that it doesn't hurt the environment too. Hopefully they can eventually perfect these to be like normal golf balls, and this product can take off. Since they are biodegradable, it wont hurt the environment when they are lost, they can just decompose.
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