“It still feels like a novelty,” says Campbell Mathieson, co-founder of Ayrshire Discount Golf Balls. He’s in his warehouse, or ‘emporium ‘as the team like to call it, surrounded by 60,000 golf balls.
According to Mathieson and co-founder Andy Bogle, that’s the warehouse at just over 50% capacity. Until a few huge orders cleared out a large section of “budget balls”, the place was overflowing.
While they might think it’s still just a novelty, this is now a serious business for the lads from Ayrshire.
It all started in 2020 when Andy and Campbell, like the rest of us, had nothing to do and wanted to get out to work on their games.
“One night I said to Andy, ‘Do you fancy going to the range?’” Campbell recalls.
“I couldn’t really be bothered paying for balls, though. It’s quite a cost if you’re going a few times a week.
“Andy said, ‘Well, I actually have about 5,000 balls in my garage, so we can just go up and hit them.’ I really had to take a step back when he said that.”
That collection had once belonged to Andy’s late grandfather and ranged from vintage balls, that were around 20-years-old, to Titleist Pro V1s. Fair to say the old-style spheres were in much…
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