Green Golf

When you think golf, you don't exactly think the most eco-friendly of sports. It costs a lot of money to keep the greens green and the roughs long and unfriendly.

But now even the sport of golf is doing it's part to go green. There are two products on the market now that are trying to green up the sport.

The first is the eco tee from Indiana company Eco-golf.

In an email from an eco-golf representative, he wrote that their tees are just like traditional ones and are non marking on club heads. They just look a little different, kind of plastic-y. But they are no different than good old wooden tees.

Eco golf manufactures three types of tees, all of which are biodegradable, their eco tee 2 green tee does in as little as 60 days.

This technology came to the States from Austria. The Austrian, biogolf, biodegradable golf tee won the 2008 Volvo Sports Design Award for Accessories.

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Also on the market is a biodegradable golf ball. On the web, you can find the water soluble golf balls. These really don't make any sense to me. They are marketed as if encouraging the customer to hit golf balls into the ocean. It just seems silly to me. Their website reads that the golf balls only go half the distance when hit with a driver and only go the full distance with an 8 or a 9 iron.

The eco tee makes sense to me, it actually will be beneficial to the environment but the biodegradable golf ball just seems a little too un necessary to me.