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Noodle in a Haystack: Our Sorting Process

How do we do this, you ask? Easy. We kidnap PGA professionals from golf courses around the country and force them to sort, inspect, and hand-shine each and every golf ball.

They work 24 hours-a-day, 7 days a week surviving on an I.V. of sugar, caffeine, and water until they eventually lose their minds. If they work too slowly, we force them to watch Charles Barkley’s golf swing over and over again for an hour. It usually only takes one “session” for them to learn their lesson.  Charles_Barkley_Swing

None of this is true. We actually have a very sophisticated system for sorting, inspecting, and choosing only the finest quality used golf balls. It takes a team of very dedicated, hard-working people to make it all happen.

To start, each golf ball is cleaned using our proprietary cleaning process and then spends a day drying in a bin with around its closest friends. 

Once that step is complete, multiple batches of golf balls are put into groupings. This is where the hand-sorting process begins. Hand-sorting gives us very precise control over what golf balls make it out of our sorting area, to our packaging center, onto our website, and then into your bag. And we are very picky.

It is during this granular sorting step that we separate the golf balls by brand, model, and quality. For example, what came in as an anonymous white speck among a huge heap of tons other anonymous white specks is now a AAAA Titleist NXT Tour 2012. It’s quite amazing, really. But it’s our process and our people which make the difference. 

If Titleist Pro V1’s are what you’re looking for, Lost Golf Balls has a special place for those. Now you know why we have such outstanding quality and selection when it comes to the number one ball in golf.

The sorting process we’ve just described may seem quite complex. It is, actually. But it has to be.

 There is no other way to ensure that we provide our fellow golfers with nothing but the top-quality, brand name golf balls they’ve come to expect from Lost Golf Balls.

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