Another one for the 20+ year players

[RobertB]

Recollections of Balatas and PTS90s etc

Here is one .... name that ball?


I found it two years ago on the beach at the course I learned game on between 1978-84 as a school kid... it looks like it had a hard life.....

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Srixon range ball?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Guessing with that dimple pattern it might be a DDH. Is it a surlyn or balata cover

 

[macca64]

penfold commando

 

[fundy]

maxfli ddh? (500 dimples?)

 

[pbrown7582]

DDH my guess too with its dodecahedron dimple pattern.

 

[RobertB]

Good efforts all. Some old timers about.... here is a face on view.



A Maxfli DDH 500 .... the uniformity of wear suggests it has spent a long time washing in/out on the gravel beach for years!

 

[Hobbit]

Does anyone remember the Uniroyal+6. Hexagonal dimples that were supposed to make the ball 6yds further - circa 74-ish????

 

[Imurg]

Does anyone remember the Uniroyal+6. Hexagonal dimples that were supposed to make the ball 6yds further - circa 74-ish????

Only 6?

Wouldn't get out of bed for that.......

 

[Hobbit]

Only 6?

Wouldn't get out of bed for that.......

we've gone metric since...:cheers:

 

[richart]

Recollections of Balatas and PTS90s etc

Here is one .... name that ball?


I found it two years ago on the beach at the course I learned game on between 1978-84 as a school kid... it looks like it had a hard life.....

Looks like Pluto to me.

 

[richart]

Does anyone remember the Uniroyal+6. Hexagonal dimples that were supposed to make the ball 6yds further - circa 74-ish????

They were rubbish Brian. I used to like the Slazenger B51's that came in their own individual box with tissue paper. Something to dry your eyes on when you smacked it OB.

 

[Hobbit]

They were rubbish Brian. I used to like the Slazenger B51's that came in their own individual box with tissue paper. Something to dry your eyes on when you smacked it OB.

Just before the Uniroyal....... the Penfold Commando - its was a Pinnacle Brick that had been hardended in the furnesses of Mordor!

 

[Deleted member 18588]

Does anyone remember the Uniroyal+6. Hexagonal dimples that were supposed to make the ball 6yds further - circa 74-ish????

Certainly do.

Just goes to show that marketing BS is not a recent development and neither is golfer's gullibility.

Was it not round about that time that John Huston (?) PGA Tour player started promoting a brand of shoe that promised us extra distance on our shots.

 

[srixon 1]

30 years ago I remember opening a brand-new slazenger 65 from its individual wrapper on the first tee. I smacked it once (thinned) into a massive bramble bush in front of the tee. I wonder if it is still in there?

 

[richart]

30 years ago I remember opening a brand-new slazenger 65 from its individual wrapper on the first tee. I smacked it once (thinned) into a massive bramble bush in front of the tee. I wonder if it is still in there?

wasn't it a Dunlop 65 ? I used those quite a lot as well as the Penfold Ace. James Bond used one in Gold Finger.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Does anyone remember the Uniroyal+6. Hexagonal dimples that were supposed to make the ball 6yds further - circa 74-ish????

Indeed I do, bodes well for Sunday, we can discuss the relative merits of hickory shafts & rut irons over a jalfrezi.....

 

[Hobbit]

Indeed I do, bodes well for Sunday, we can discuss the relative merits of hickory shafts & rut irons over a jalfrezi.....

Jeez Blue, you're older than you post!!

 

[Blue in Munich]

Jeez Blue, you're older than you post!!

No, just trying to make Fish feel young.......

 

[cack_handed]