Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
Fair enough but that’s purely one element and extremely important but spin is much more widely used and achieved on the longer shots
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Golf is fun
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I'm pretty sure they've said it was because they wanted the Pro V1 to be the main ball and more tour players were using the X.
It's amazing how many people still think the balls are the original way round though, so clearly it wasn't well marketed.
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
Spalding made some soft high spin golf balls sold under the Topflite Brand name, I played XL2000, XL3000 and Infinity high Spin balls for some years.So one of them was only rock hard, while the other one was flipping hard?
Trouble is so many players only experience of Topflite was the standard XL and they assumed all Topflite balls were like that.
When they brought the Topflite Strata (the first ever of the modern 3 piece 'solid' as opposed to wound balls, which came out around 3 years before the ProV10 I made the switch away from wound balata golf balls and never switched back again.
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
At one time I was on the list of players who got boxes of balls from Titleist for free.
The year they did the switch around I was sent 6 of each to try. To be honest I could not spot that much difference in actual play on a course.
When the they first came out the difference between the two was highly noticeable and I immediately chose the V1 when I had finally run out of the Stratas I used. The difference in greenside spin was very noticeable.
rulie
Head Pro
Bit of a digression, but the Strata was a very good ball. Several of us used to play them, and were described as the "one hop, stop" ball for shots to the green.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Strata and the Maxfli Revolution....quality balls...
GreiginFife
Money List Winner
Maxfli still making decent balls. The old man (FiL) played at Archerfield with the VP of Dick’s Sporting Goods few months back, he was playing the Maxfli Tour ball and ended up sending the FiL 6 dozen of them which he is using and loves them.
The VP guy is also arranging for a set of the Maxfli forged blades to be sent across as well.
The VP guy is also arranging for a set of the Maxfli forged blades to be sent across as well.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Maxfli balls do well in the MGS tests but it seems you can't really get them over here for the most part.
timd77
Assistant Pro
This is taking me back to my teenage years when I first started playing, reading golf magazines and seeing the adverts for golf equipment, it all always Maxfli and topflight balls, and petron or howson clubs if I remember correctly. Titleist stuff as well. Simpler times!
GreiginFife
Money List Winner
No, they aren’t officially in the UK market.
Lucifer MorningStar
Well-known member
That was a phenomenal ball back in the day, I remember as a Junior playing the Bridgestone EV then switching to the Maxfli Revolution
slicer79
Challenge Tour Pro
Griffin on the US Ryder cup side this week using a Maxfli ball
GreiginFife
Money List Winner
Probably their Tour X ball.
rulie
Head Pro
'It was a no-brainer': Inside a Tour pro's surprising gear deal
On a Tour where equipment blue bloods dominate the headlines, Ben Griffin is embracing a more contrarian gear route: using Maxfli golf balls.
golf.com
GreiginFife
Money List Winner
So yeah, then…'It was a no-brainer': Inside a Tour pro's surprising gear deal
On a Tour where equipment blue bloods dominate the headlines, Ben Griffin is embracing a more contrarian gear route: using Maxfli golf balls.
jim8flog
Journeyman Pro
When these came out the local Nevada Bobs golf shop let me buy a mixed dozen of Strata, Maxfli Revolution and Precept Double cover. Having tried all 3 they then let me swap all the unused Maxflis and Precepts for Stratas.
I used to put so much spin on the Maxfli it was hard to stop it from spinning off the front of the green. One of the very low figure players I played with said the same.
Klimski
Active member
Okay, going full nerd mode, I compared some stats from the Today's Golfer test and MyGolfspy. I focussed only on balls in discussion in this thread or those that I am interested in. Takeaways: the TP5 is marginally shorter in high swing speed carry stats, but it's only a few yards. Then, there is a really strange mismatch in the wedge spin numbers that they report.
Here are some numbers:
Here are some numbers:
Neilds
Assistant Pro
According to Trackman's website, 1mph clubhead speed can add up to 3 yards - but according to the 2 tests, 2 mph difference adds between 12 and 16 yards (ball dependant). Were they using the same driver or does it just show that we nee to take these tests with a pinch of salt?
Orikoru
Tour Winner
The MGS spin numbers look more realistic to me. I highly doubt a Tour Soft spins more than a ProV1.
Klimski
Active member
Well I think MGS tested outdoors in nice warm weather, whereas Today's Golfer tested on a GC Quad indoors in Lincolnshire or some such, so perhaps it's that?
