In these eco-conscious times, there are few areas of life that have not been touched by the drive to go green, and golf is no exception.
Justin Timberlake has been an advocate of eco-golf at his course in Tennessee.
The trend for environmentally friendly golf is rocketing with celebrities such as Justin Timberlake taking up the cause in unveiling one of the world's top eco-golf courses earlier this year.
His club, the Mirimichi Golf Course in Tennessee is the first in the country to be designated as a certified Audubon International Classic Sanctuary, re-using 80 percent of the energy it produces.
Next month Stockholm will host one of the largest meetings of American and European golf clubs to decide how the game can become more environmentally and socially responsible.
Living Golf looks at a selection of some of the best eco-equipment making our greens even greener.
The recyclable golf ball:
Every club player will be familiar with the age-old problem of losing golf balls -- but what happens to the collection of wayward balls once the search is over?
Dixon Golf are asking for their customers to recycle their balls.
It is estimated 300 million golf balls are discarded in the United States alone, every year -- that is enough balls to create a solid line from Los Angeles to London and back.
Dixon Golf are encouraging golfers to recycle their lost and found by offering a dollar for each ball that is returned to their recycling centers throughout the US and in over 15 countries worldwide.
"We're getting the word out there. We don't have the advertising revenue of [bigger] companies but the more people know, the more they chose our eco-friendly balls.
"We're also developing our first prototype putter made entirely from recycled crushed golf balls," said company owner William Carey.
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