By his own admission, Lashon Wanagetunga is no Tiger Woods.

I've been, let's say, a struggling golfer for a long time.

Lost a lot of golf balls.

In fact, you might say that Juanigutunga is an expert in losing golf balls.

He loses around six of them every time he goes to the course.

His shots end up in the woods, somewhere in the rough, or at the bottom of a pond.

And as it turns out, that's not much worse than most golfers fare.

On average, golfers lose four to five balls around.

If you're a really bad player, that number goes up.

If you're a really good player, that number goes down.

When you consider that more than 25 million Americans golf each year,

well, that is a lot of golf balls.

By one estimate, golfers in the U.S. lose 300 million

golf balls every year. If you could find them all and lay them end to end, the line of golf balls

would stretch from New York City all the way to Hong Kong. For golfers like Juanigatunga,

this is an expensive problem.

Buying new balls can add up.

And for the golf courses, all those lost balls are a never-ending environmental nuisance.

So golfers and courses would both like to recover those lost balls.

And if you're willing to brave the alligators,

rusty beer cans, and murky waters,

there's money to be made.

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