From Today I Found Out.

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As the saying goes, “The game of golf is a good walk spoiled.” Given the nearly 40,000 golf courses currently in use around the world, a great many people would probably beg to differ. But even the most enthusiastic golfer has at one time or another agreed with this sentiment when faced with that greatest of frustrations: the tedious and often futile search for a ball which has landed in the rough. Many solutions have been proposed for this classic course conundrum, such as painting balls with fluorescent or even glow-in-the-dark paint, all of which sadly still require the use of that most unreliable of instruments: the Mark One Eyeball. But this is the Twentieth-First Century; surely among all the advanced technologies at our disposal lies an elegant and convenient method of locating a lost golf ball – for example, a tiny radio transmitter? While this is technically feasible, not only would such a device likely be prohibitively expensive, but making a transmitter robust enough to survive the extreme forces of a golf club stroke would be a major engineering challenge. But what about something simpler, using another form of invisible energy? What about a radioactive golf ball, one that can easily be tracked down using an inexpensive Geiger Counter? What could go wrong? And on top of that, surely utilizing ionizing radiation would also improve performance… for reasons we guess. Here now is the bizarre story of radioactive golf balls.

Author: Gilles Messier
Editor: Daven Hiskey
Host: Daven Hiskey
Producer: Caden Nielsen