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YouTube Video: How To Turn Golf Shanks Into Cash
Having trouble off the tee? These young entrepreneurs are making business out of other golfers' misfortunes.
If a story can be told in a name, then Shanks-A-Lot has hit a hole-in-one. And you better pick up your ball, otherwise these Lake Forest brothers may grab it first.
If you are searching for your errant drive, you may step on the footprints of 13-year-old Jack Lunn and his younger brother, Henry. The young entrepreneurs have started a business selling lost golf balls.
Where do they do most of their hunting?
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"We fish them out of and the East Skokie River," said Jack Lunn. "We then resell them at the
Lunn said the second fairway at Deerpath Golf Course is where they do most of their dives. These boys don't use any fancy equipment, they are all about the adventure. "We jump right into the river and grab them with our hands," said Jack Lunn.
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Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Patch interviewed Lunn for its YouTube Video. Lunn reveals more secrets on their ball snatching ways.
Shanks-A-Lot has a table all summer at the Lake Forest Farmer's Market, which runs 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays through Sept. 24.