SECOND INCOME
The OSL guide to making extra money in your spare time
1: How much can I earn selling lost golf balls?
2: How to get started as a professional ball hawk
3: How do I sell lost golf balls?
4: Are there any risks retrieving lost balls?
5: Do I need permission to collect lost golf balls?
6: A golf ball hawker's best tips
7: How many golf balls can I find each season?
8: Equipment used to find lost golf balls
Getting started as a ball hawk
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You'd like to earn some extra money hawking golf balls on your local courses. How to do you start? How do you know it's safe? How do you find buyers for the balls? We tell you how.
First Steps
Pay a visit to your local public golf course. Don't ask for permission to walk or hawk balls there, just go there during the evening when the place is quiet and the senior staff have gone home.
Stay away from the clubhouse and driving range. Stay away from the golf kart parking zone. Find a way to enter the course that does not look suspicious or attracts anyone's attention.
Walk the edge of the course. Don't cross the fairways, stay off the greens, don't get in the way of golfers if there are still people playing.
If you meet someone, greet them, don't act suspiciously, and keep on walking.
First find
Pretty soon, even if you're an absolute beginner, you will find your first golf ball. It's amazing how many balls are lost in places that are easy to spot.
Your reaction to this first ball will tell you whether you are born to be a ball hawk.
If you're just mildly interested and daunted by the miles yet to be covered, ball hawking is probably not your game.
If your face lights up and you study the ball, the make and brand, you're a ball hawk. If you can't wait to cover the entire course, you're a ball hawk.
If you think ball hawking is just for kids, you're wrong. Most professional ball hawks are adults. They have the patience and strength to do the job every day of the week. Kids are fairweather and weekend ball hawks.
Next steps
That first casual walk on the course probably produced about 20 balls. If you didn't bring a bag for the balls, your pockets will be bulging.
Next time you walk on the course, you'll bring a bag, and you'll look harder. Soon you'll be a 50-a-day hawker. You'll aspire to be a 100-a day hawker.
In order to become a pro ball hawk, you need to study your course and learn it, so that you can move swiflty across it, knowing where all the hots spots are, and which places are only worth a look once in a while.
First rule of hawking
The first rule of ball hawking is that an inexperienced golfer can hit a ball in any direction, in front of him, behind him, and to the sides. You will see this time and time again. Golf balls hide themselves in the most unlikely places./p>
After a few months of hawking, you will be an expert, moving unnoticed across the course, able to find at least 80 balls every day of the week, covering an entire 18-hole course in 90 minutes.
It's a great hobby, a fun source of income, and it keeps you fit and observant.
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