Man earns $15 Million from Golf Ball Diving – Real or Fake?

According to AU News, Glen Berger used to be an out-of-work thief 14 years ago and started collecting golf balls which eventually gave him the idea of gaining money from it.

He started diving for golf balls at the bottom of the Lakes and selling them back to the clubs at $1 per ball for use on their driving ranges.

The source quoted him saying, “I was partially unemployed and I was stealing golf balls out of a golf course lake where I lived and I realized that wasn’t the way to make money this business just blew up.” He continued to dive for golf balls for more than decade and has been fishing out 1.3 to 1.7 million balls per year across the golf course-rich state of Florida.

The source estimated, “The average golf course hosts about 30,000 18-hole rounds every year, and let’s make a very conservative estimate an average golfer will lose 1.5 balls to a water hazard every 18 holes.”