Any point using good balls in the winter??

Yellow balls are no good at our place. The leaves are yellow.

I would actually play with pink balls (oooh errr) :D if I could find some similar to the AD333's
 
Surely the answer to the question posed in the thread title has to be 'would you deliberately use ball balls in the winter?'.

At which point you get the obvious what's a bad ball question, which leads to what's a good ball question and, as ever in ball threads we are back to where we started!

All of which ignores any real definition of winter golf...

There are many players who should clearly use the cheapest balls they can get - but frankly that's winter and summer! If it matters to you in the summer then it will matter to you in the winter. There's more to balls than what happens when they land on the green...
 
My course gets pretty wet in winter and with there being plenty of trees around the fairways there's more than a few leaves obfuscating any balls that stray offline to the point they can be near impossible to find unless you stand on the ball during a search.

Some parts of our course get plenty soft enough to suck a ball landing straight into its murky depths, never to be seen again. Personally, I don't see the point of putting a decent ball in play under these conditions, so as soon as fairway mats go on in our place I dig out the cheap Dunlops I invariably get at Christmas from the weans and they go into play until the mats come off again.
 
I shall calm myself by only losing £1.00 balls over the winter period, not £4 ones.

Actually, that's not entirely true. Mostly I will offer a "2nd chance" to ones previously kicked out the bag into the bucket of scuffed shame.
 
duncan mackie said:
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There are many players who should clearly use the cheapest balls they can get - but frankly that's winter and summer! If it matters to you in the summer then it will matter to you in the winter. There's more to balls than what happens when they land on the green...
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Well I certainly don't have the game to benefit from using premium golf balls.
 
I bulk buy whatever is last year's premium ball at the beginning of the year, and run with it all year. Usually about £20-£25 a doz. Appreciate it won't respond as well in the winter to temps and course conditions but, for me, its the feel off the club face I want to maintain...
 
I bought 100 refurb prov 1s for £40. They certainly do not resemble any real pro v1s I have bought, but I have been using them for the winter.

Funnily I had a playing partner last week who was using one of the balls I had lost, he thought he was playing a real prov1, poor chap.
 
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