I found SO MANY golf balls in just ONE HOUR with this UV torch

Inspiration and Preparation

recently I was watching the news here in the UK and there was one particular segment that really caught my eye. The journalists were basically interviewing people out on the street late at night who were walking around trying to find scorpions. Now you’re probably wondering what scorpions have to do with golf, well what they were doing was they were basically using UV torches to identify these scorpions in these dark and low-lit conditions because when the UV light was shown over the Scorpion it illuminated it and made it really easy to spot. So I decided to apply the same principles to golf. Now what I did is I headed over to Amazon and I purchased this torch, this is a UV torch it cost around about 10.99 and my plan is to head out to the golf course to see if I can find some golf balls using this torch. When you’re on the golf course normally and you lose your ball in the thick rough or in the bushes it can be really quite difficult to find it, however at night time on the golf course when there is absolutely no light this UV torch should hopefully be able to clearly identify and detect those white golf balls or brightly colored golf balls out on the golf course. So I’m going to head out to the golf course to see how many I can find tonight.

Gear Check and Strategy

okay so we’re going to head out to the golf course just now I’ve got myself nicely wrapped up got a couple of extras here. So I’ve got this bag hopefully by the time we come back to that will be full of golf balls. I’ve got my a little Nike golf hat here because it’s really really cold outside so that’s a must. This is my UV torch here so there’s a couple of settings that are really good on this one here, first of all you can light up with a normal light and you can also change how wide the spread is there so it’ll be brighter obviously when it’s a much smaller a more narrow spread and it’s got a strobe on it and more importantly it’s got this UV light so there’s the the purpley UV color you see here that will hopefully illuminate those golf balls. And I’ve got a little backup number here as well because I’ll be out on the golf course in the pitch black and if this one happens to run out of battery then at least we’ve got a spare here to to help me get home and then I’ve got a set of gloves because most of these golf balls are probably going to be in the bushes or in the thick sort of rough so rather than sticking my hand out and putting into a thorny Bush when I can’t see what I’m doing these should come in handy. So we’re going to head out hopefully we’ll find some golf balls we’ll come back in and we’ll see at the end how many we have. I’m gonna go for around about an hour so drop a comment below to let me know how many you think I’ll find and we’ll unveil the number at the end of this video.

Starting the Hunt

so that’s us down at the golf course now one of the things I’m wanting to do here is come up with a plan of where to look. So at the moment if I Pan the camera around well you might not even be able to see it’s just completely pitch black so basically um I’ve got a little attachment light onto the camera here just now which is allowing me to at least see my face in the film but I’m thinking the best place to go is where golf balls tend to be lost. So for me personally I’m going to pick the spots on the golf course where I tend to lose a golf ball so like for example the third hole anything sort of right off the tear in about 200 yards I think there’s a high chance there’ll be some balls there so I’m going to Target the areas first of all where I personally tend to lose golf balls and where I know that a lot of people do and hopefully we’ll have some luck and then I’ll probably just fold the kind of natural floor around the core. So we’ve got around about an hour as I said I’m going to see how many I can find in that time but I suspect there will be some down near the um third Fairway so let’s head there and see if we can find some balls.

First Finds and Obstacles

so you can see if I’ve pan down see just how brightly the laces are my trainers are showing up so that’s what I’m hoping with the golf balls we’ll be able to see. So let’s head in to the thick rough so I’m going to head in to this area because I think this is probably a little bit more likely to have balls so you can see underneath here there’s a reflection there I just Shine the torch on it and that I believe is a golf ball. So you can see there look how well it shines and lights up so we’ve quite clearly got one and I think I thought there’s no idea but I think it’s actually just Bird poo so yeah we’ve got one just been out for a couple of minutes and there’s our first ball and that’s a Callaway super soft so not a bad little thing start with. One thing I didn’t really give much thought to is the fact that in areas like this you see there are lots of trees and overhanging branches and especially ones like this I’ve already managed to catch my face when I’m about three times so I’m gonna feel a little bit more careful and it’s quite difficult because it’s so dark and I’m using the torch and I’m looking at the ground but yeah if you do decide to go and look for golf balls like this just be aware of your surroundings.

Continuing the Search and Sensory Notes

two TaylorMade all right so we found find the armor but as I said earlier you can see just how easily it illuminates it so that was easy to spot. I don’t think anyone’s going to be seeing that one if they’ve not got their torch even during the day because it was quite it’s quite far in there and quite hidden. This one here good old top fight and one of the things I’m already already noticing is although there’s a couple of cars going by it’s generally really really quiet and all I can hear are sudden noises of birds flapping about in the trees like that and so it’s something that certainly takes a bit of getting used to because you just suddenly hear noises and of course you’re out on a quiet golf course on your own and but yeah there’s quite a lot of random noises.

Distinguishing Golf Ball Types

you’ll see here this is a Pro V1 and you can see if I just try and get the camera the pattern on the dimples it almost looks sort of like faded or sort of like matted if we compare it with another bow so this one here is just a Slazenger you’ll see under the light it looks completely different so if I put them side by side just like this you can quite clearly see the difference between a Pro V1 and a Slazenger. So this makes it a little bit easier if you’re looking to just find high quality golf balls then you’ll know pretty quickly when you see a ball when it’s a Pro V1. I’ve already found out two or three tonight and uh yeah I can tell the minute the light goes on it if it’s a Pro V1 or if it’s another.

Mid-Hunt Update

Roundabout right so I’ve just popped up to the what holds this the 16th T and I’ve basically been walking for about 45 minutes and searching for the balls I’ve done I think four holes and as you can see both of these Pockets here are oh there you go two balls I’ve just found out so they’re both completely bolt in. So I thought it’s a good opportunity to take a look at what we’ve got so far there’s no doubt about it that the torch works really really well, I mean it makes it so easy to identify the balls that are pretty much just lying almost on the surface sometimes and you kind of almost amazed how people have missed them but they obviously have um but with the torch it just picks them up so quickly. So there’s a good mixture there I’ve got titles Pro V1 so I’ve got strips it’s got tailor made random balls like truss we found some old Nike balls so I won’t know until I get home and clean them up what quality they are but you know I found there’s at least 20 30 balls here and I’m still going to stay up for now 25 minutes or so but there’s a yeah there’s a lot of golf balls here and uh it’s been an enjoyable walk as well. So let’s see what we’ve got so you can see here got a good mixture that’s just all that that was basically just in one pocket and I went to this other pocket.

Counting the Haul and Final Finds on Course

Okay so we’ve got two four six eight ten twelve fourteen sixteen eighteen twenty so we’ve got 22 balls. The majority of those were found just in the last couple of holes and I’ve got about maybe seven or eight in my bag so we’ve got like a pretty decent quality titles Pro V1 there um this night ball that I found as we mentioned before what else is there’s another one nice little St Andrews links one in fact I didn’t pick a one of these up when I played the old course so maybe I can just clean it up and keep that as my trophy ball uh taylormades there’s this random trust never put a trust no idea what it is um but yeah so we’ve got quite a range there I think once these clean up a lot of these will be good there’s another proof we want so we’ve got two or three profi ones true for you and uh yeah got a couple of rubbish balls like this which would be good for the I guess the driving range but generally speaking that’s not a bad return for four to five minutes effort um and I’ve got other balls in the back so let’s put these in and then we’ll head to another hole and keep searching as I walk back home. hope there’s another two yeah there’s one down here and one in here it’s got yellow one and a white one so it’s a tailor-made and Max flight Pinnacle or something like that. We’ll see if this one’s any good so this is the second uh one of these that I found so I’ll just put the light on so this is the second Nike ball I found in a couple of holes Vapor black nothing of ever ever used of it before Vapor black um but yeah used to use night bugs all the time back in the day so I don’t know how old this ball is a practice ball yeah nice fine but unfortunately the camera battery is really poor here I’ve only brought it one so I’m going to stop recording now because it’s about to run out but we’ll head back to the house and take a look at just how many balls we have found.

Cleaning and Final Total

Now that’s just got home unfortunately the camera um ran out of battery which wasn’t great but on the way home I found a few more balls. What I’m going to do we’ll get them emptied into this little storage basket here and the plan is to head and get some sleep and I’m going to clean these up tomorrow and we’ll see just how many I have found and I’ll also share with you some of my top tips and findings based on using the torch but I would say based on how many I think I’ve found it’s uh yeah it’s pretty successful night. This afternoon I took all of the golf balls I found out on the golf course last night and gave them a quick clean using some hot soapy water as you can see here now be careful not to drop them they’re aware an awful lot. In fact I found 48 golf balls in total which is not bad for one hour’s work. Some of my personal favorites so I found a Nike ball here I’ve not had a night ball in ages this is I can like practice ball we have um found quite a lot of titles Pro V1s we’ve got probably one here and there is um a random Vice Bowl so I’ve never actually played with ice ball so that’s not too bad and I think somewhere deep in here there was also a nice St Andrews um old course badged box so some really good golf balls in there.

Condition and Tips for Viewers

They’re not in the world’s best condition I wouldn’t say they’re in here that are completely brand new but there’s certainly at least 10 or 15 balls here that I would quite happily play with in a bounce game and probably five or six that I would use quite happily in a competition question. The rest of these balls will probably get used for practice sessions doing a little bit of chipping or hitting at the driving range where basically it can’t be bored to come pick them up. Now in terms of how well this little torch performed on the golf course I would say incredible though 1099 is not a lot of money it was available on Amazon I’ve put the link in the description below in case you’re interested in buying one but for 10.99 to find almost 50 golf balls in just one hour and obviously I’ve now got the torch I can go out as often as I want. In terms of advice for anybody who is thinking about buying one of these and taking it out my first tip would be to make sure you get one of these torches that can toggle between a normal torch and the UV light because quite often the UV is really good at pointing out golf balls or highlighting golf balls but it’s not so great for actually just using as a torch out on a really dark golf course so one like this which can swap between a standard bulb and the UV bulb is incredibly useful. My second tip would be to make sure you look out for any branches quite often you’re too busy looking for golf balls and I noticed as I mentioned in the video I caught my face quite a few times on these branches which I just wasn’t looking out for. Another thing that I would say is if you’re somebody who um maybe like me watches loads of these crime programs then get used to the idea of suddenly hearing birds or animals flapping about or moving about because it could be quite unnerving at times you’re the only person out on a very very quiet golf course and you do hear sudden movements which can Panic you. The other thing I would say is in terms of finding golf balls my last tip would probably be to wait until the main season kicks off if you’re wanting to find really high quality golf balls because what will happen is during the winter people will use balls like this so this is like an old kind of tailor-made one that’s not in great condition or we have like a pinnacle here these are balls that people are quite happy to lose during the winter. The other thing is that quite often during the winter time the grass isn’t growing as much much so it’s easier to find golf balls when people are out playing so there’s probably not as many on the golf course. And as well as that if you were to go out on a Saturday you’ll find that the majority of people playing in these medals will probably play with better quality golf balls so a Saturday evening in my opinion would probably be a really good time to go out because the liquid is you’re going to find Pro V1s and tailor-made balls and the kind of more premium golf balls if you’re going out on a day of a competition.

Closing

Anyway I really hope you found this video useful as I said if you’re thinking about buying one of these then feel free to use a link in my description to get this exact same torch which I would highly recommend great for only 10 pounds. If you enjoyed the video remember to give it a like and if you’re new to the channel feel free to hit that subscribe button now if you did enjoy this video I’m sure you enjoyed this one here just as much.