+1. Great find.

My brother and I could get a penny each or a nickel for three -- until the big kids learned what we were doing. Lots of fights I lost. Mom finally put a stop to it. Wouldn't let us go over to the playground near the edge of the golf ball gold mine. We probably made 5 bucks before the big kids started horning in us, and taking balls or money. So, my brother and I explored another area of the neighborhood and we found a culvert storage area a little further away in another direction and crawled through all sorts of galvanized culverts in which we found C-rations!, probably C-3 rations that had been stashed in the culverts by someone stealing the rations or maybe working the culverts for surplus. Apparently these had been purchased at the end of the war, by the County as part of their road and bridge, as army surplus. Heck, maybe they were just donated. These rations had cigarettes and matches! (I remember my first cigarette. The matches were strike anywhere wooden with wax coating and they worked. If you start them young in the military it is smart to have free tobacco in the rations and matches to light 'em.) But the GOLF Balls. Some we collected and got home. Dad took some apart for us and the rubber wrapped tightly around the fluid filled-rubber sack core would unwrap really actively. Some would start unraveling into a mass that turned itself into a loose spherical ball of fine spaghetti rubber. It was a single strand, I don't know how long, maybe a quarter mile for some thin wraps. It seems some were a lot shorter, in older looking balls with what seemed like a thicker rubber. I do not golf, though I have in the past, and tennis too. I wish I had those old rations now, they are collectors items. And the golf balls are much better now, but purposely made to fly only a limited distance. I have never played tennis on a "grass" court. I got the spot post back almost to a G! Right..? Now "G" has special significance...

It is a great blurb. Other day, I got back in time (with edit) to remove the natural "follow-on" about asking what one could do with "old" golf balls. I'm sure there must be a solid set of ideas for things that can be done with old worn out golf balls . . . But there are other things too! Like. Do Golf Balls ever wear out? I think they are pretty tough, but if they get . . .uh . . .hit, swung at and connected with, sliced and cut or chopped at . . . uh. . . "banged" around a lot they can wear out and lose their resiliency. Darn, wish now I could recall the exact phrasing. Thanks for your chuckle! Great blurb!

Very useful information, I used to just give them to my dog, didn't know the thing about the teeth. Now I'll just let the stepson use them and lose them in street hockey.