
CNN
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Jim Best admits that he’s not the best golfer, but he does spend most of his time on some of world’s best golf courses.
He says he struggles to keep his ball on the fairway, and yet he’s made his living from the game. He’s got tremendous feel around the greens – but not in the way you might be thinking, and he’s usually about 15 under, but we’re not talking about his scorecard.
That’s because Jim Best is a diver who finds your lost golf balls and turns them into a lucrative business.
At one stage, he was working at 65 courses up the Eastern seaboard of the United States, salvaging up to two million balls a year. He’s…