Every year, an estimated 100 million golf balls end up in rivers, lakes, fields, forests and landfills, where they might take decades to decompose.

If Dane Platt and William Carey have their way, in the future most of those balls will show up in one of their recycling plants and be replaced by eco-friendly balls.

Platt is CEO and Carey is executive vice president of Dixon Golf, a Mesa company (dixongolf.com) that launched its Earth golf ball and recycling initiative in January at the PGA Merchandise Show in Orlando, Fla. 
"Our challenge was twofold," Carey said. "We wanted to make a high-performance ball and we wanted it to be eco-friendly."

Unlike most balls, which contain a combination of non-renewable synthetics, lead, cobalt, tungsten and titanium, Platt said Dixon balls are "green to the core."

Since I have been playing golf for the past 16 months the hardest thing for me to grasp and consistently execute is finishing the golf swing. Finishing my golf swing always felt very awkward until I had a conversation with Tony while leaving the course last evening. Tony is a self taught, very good golfer that played high level college football until he got hurt which prevented him from going pro. Tony practices constantly and after telling him about my delema with finishing my swing he gave me some great advice - "The finish of the golf swing is like throwing the club towards the target." I went to the practice range today and I must say Tony you are right. I had no trouble finishing my swing using his advice. My club traveled naturally down the target line and finished over my shoulders with my belly button facing the target. My divits weren't these huge holes in the ground because I was trying too hard to hit down on the ball or trying to steer the ball and not complete my swing. Thanks Tony.

I'm not sure if this is what is meant by "approach" since I'm just learning to play golf, but I found this article very interesting, if a bit overwhelming for someone new, like me who doesn't know all the terminology yet... It is from Golf Tips magazine "...approaching the ball on the correct plane. The vast majority of players who struggle with impact swing over the plane from outside to in and make a very steep approach into the ball."

Maybe someone can help explain some of the terms they use, like "thin and fat shots" and "slices, hooks, pushes, chicken wing in the finish." I understand most of it, but these terms don't tell me anything!

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Abigail

Kevin Gill's "One Thought - One Move" is the best I've found for staying on plane. Point the butt of the club at the ball going back, and try to hit the ball with the butt coming down. That part alone corrected many flaws in my swing. Most all instructors, at some point, might suggest that you place a white tee in the end of the grip as a pointer to aim at the target line going back, but Kevin Gill is adamant that this is the one ‘move’ that will bring about a good swing, when used in both directions (and related to the ball instead of the target line), and I would have to agree. Greg M.