Welcome to Golf Ball Heaven: Austin, Texas

Welcome Austinites!  This little site is dedicated to the buying and selling of golf items in the Austin area.  Of course you could use Craigslist, but here you won't be competing with so many other sporting goods items for face time with fellow golfers.

Click Here or the tab above for Golf Balls.

Click Here or the other tab above for other Golf Items.

This site is just getting started and I'm going to use it to post a few items that I have for sale.  If you have some golf specific items that you would like to sell, please send me an email ( James - jdat747[at]yahoo[dot]com ).  Please include a picture and description of what you want to sell, and some form of contact info.  If you want, you can send a link to a Craigslist post so that you don't have to duplicate your efforts.  I will gather the information from your post and put a more permanent post on this blog.

I will post your item and it will go out to everyone who subscribes to this blog.  I think this is an ideal venue for golf ball sales, but other golf items are welcome.  

I do have excellent premium brand golf balls for sale myself at $1 each!

If you sell an item and it is no longer available, please let me know to take down your posting.   Otherwise it will stay up indefinitely, and that's annoying for everyone if you no longer have an item to sell.  I may clean out postings from time to time anyway though.

If anyone posts regularly, I will be happy to give access to the site so that you can manage your own posts.

Good golf, good tennis, or whatever makes you happy!  Please do read on to see how I got started:

It all started with some errant shot on the golf course, and some poor golfer's ball ended up in the pond.  Well, really I can't say exactly, I wasn't there for that part ... maybe a squirrel stole the golf ball out of his bag and buried it along the stream.  No matter, this golf ball's destiny was not to be dug up by some archaeologist 10,000 years from now.  Nor was it to spend eternity there lost in the golf course's waters.  Nope, after only enough time to grow a few barnacles, it was washed out of the pond and down the stream with about 4000 of its buddies by a good ol' Texas gully washer ... a flood of epic proportions ... that we get every other year or so.

The mother load of deposited golf balls soon lay along a bend several hundred yards downstream.  Seeing so many, I wondered if they were worth anything.  Sure enough, people sell used golf balls on Craigslist all the time.  Some are worth up to a $1.00 each, but I planned to just use the crusty ones for my own driving practice.

If you can find a large quantity of golf balls, it is very easy to wash them up and sell on e-bay, craigstlist, or to a local dealer ( who will find you if you post on craigslist ).

Alas, it was also not the destiny of this one crusty golf ball to end up in the cow pasture behind my place.  The Texas Restaurant Association had much bigger plans for it.  They found my add on Craigslist and bought about 1000 balls from me for a whopping 10 cents each.  Then they sold them, ugly ones and all, for $20 each.  Wow, if only I could figure out how to get a markup like that?!?!

I could write more of the story, or just show the rest on video ... enjoy!

As you can see, our crusty golf ball was destined for a second life, and to make somebody $1000.