Dixon Recyclable Golf Balls Attract Celebrity Attention

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Jul 18th 2010 at 7:03PM

Dixon Golf, an Arizona golf ball maker has designed balls that are eco-friendly. The company is selling the Fire golf ball which will retail for $74.95 per dozen. Previously released lines, the Earth and Wind series of balls retail for $39.95 and $29.95 per dozen. The Fire golf ball is designed for professional players or those with low handicaps and will be sold at PGA Tour Superstores. The ball features Dixon's Elastodynamic recyclable cover. The balls are totally recyclable and made from processable materials. Even the packaging is made from 100% recycled material. The Dixon Golf official grand opening of a new facility in Tempe was attended by "Hercules" actor Kevin Sorbo.

The brand has already attracted a high-profile celebrity endorsement from actor Don Cheadle. On the Dixon Golf website a quote from Cheadle proclaims that he is a "a single digit handicapper and feel that the Dixon Earth ball fits my game as well as any ball out there. It is refreshing to be associated with a company that shares my love of golf and the environment."
Dixon Golf has created the world's first high-performance eco-friendly golf balls. Unlike some Golf Ball Brands that use harsh heavy-metal pollutants like tungsten, cobalt, lead or contain non-renewable synthetic materials and compounds; all balls manufactured by Dixon Golf are "green" to the core. They are 100% recyclable and made from reprocessable materials. Even the packaging is made from 100% recycled material.

Tags: dixon golf, don cheadle, golf ball, kevin sorbo, recyclable golf ball

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Deborah-Eve Jul 20th 2010 1:33AM

Another example of how environmental consideration can be a part of just about everything. Love the ideas of going green on the green!
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realamerican Jul 25th 2010 10:46AM

It sounds like the raw materials for this venture are verl low cost. Old Golf Balls and recycled cardboard. This along with enginuity does not add up to $75 per dozen. Get this to a reasonable cost per dozen and it may take off. Make it cost competitive. One of the major benefits of recycling usable materials is that it reduces costs of manufacturing. Its still all about money.

realamerican Aug 1st 2010 4:29PM

AOL!!! Get a new story!!! Today is the 30th of July and you only have 2 comments here. Do something else. This costs me money.

Michael Sanders Aug 1st 2010 9:38PM

Recycling golf balls is one of the most interesting subjects I know of, even though I'm not a golfer.

As a child, I would chisel the tough white casing away and discovered a seemingly endless sphere of rubber band. Cutting into this rubber band bound sphere was exciting, as the stored energy of the process would release it self. Ultimately, there was a liquid filled rubber ball in the center. No one, even to this day, knows just what the liquid is! In the sixties, we were warned not to puncture the rubber ball, because it was filled with acid (not d-lysergic acid diethylamide, but rather a more common acid, like sulfuric acid).

Golf balls would have been a natural "shoe-in," for plugging the oil-leak in the gulf. Aside from that, I cannot come up with any other use for them. Someday, long after Golf has ceased to be played, archeologists will puzzle over these objects and many theories will evolve, just as the Theory of Evolution evolved. It will keep the overly brainy people out of trouble, for decades. Speaking of escatology, my latest calculation, regarding the "end of the world," is roughly 227 years left to go... Since, we all will die before that time, I theorize that the "end of the world," for all practical purposes, is when we die. I don't believe that anyone alive today, will witness the final end... I'm not sure that anyone would want to!