No new balls
Someone I spoke to told me that rarely to normal golfers buy new golf balls. Many of them get used golf balls because the balls go missing so often.
Apparently there is a little business going on where caddies will take time out to recover balls on the course, clean them up and then sell them on to golfers on a budget. A bit ironic to me. Golf isn’t a cheap game to start with. They’d pay hundreds or even thousands for their clubs. But they’d buy 2nd hand balls?