Cheap balls!!

[Smiffy]

Looking around for some "ammo" last night, I found a website selling MaxFli Noodles really cheap.

http://www.golfballs.gg/shop/product/Maxfli-Noodle.aspx

If you haven't used them yet they are a reasonable ball, decent distance off the tee with a good feel on and around the greens.
Bargain at the price especially if you are prone to losing the odd one or two.
Rob

 

[CarpeDiem]

I used these balls last winter, mainly for the reason that they were cheap and mere cannon fodder! However I found that they grew on me and I am going to use them again in a few weeks. I most liked the crystal versions

 

[Herbie]

Nothing wrong with cheap balls especially if they are good makes in a sale. Its what you get used to and feel good with that matters rather than always aiming for the noted best of the bunch at the higher price.

Im just a tight so and so when it comes to balls, for a few reasons, but I never say no to a pocket full of titleist.lol.

 

[vig]

A mate swears by noodles, well when I say swears by i mean swears at but he rates them. Not hit one myself so can't comment but he likes them.

 

[Smiffy]

They really are a decent ball....I don't like playing with rock hard balls (ooerr missus) preferring something like Titleist NXT or SoLo's and these are on a par with those.

 

[RGuk]

A mate swears by noodles,

My mate swears by noodles, and rice.....he's from China.....(no joke!)

I've enjoyed many a good round with Arnold Palmer "Bay Hill" balls. The latest version is called

Bay Hill HP 432 Titanium Core!

Good enough for under 80 around some tricky tracks......

 

[GB72]

After Christmas is when I stock up as last year's models tend to be on sale dirt cheap. Picked up 3 dozen brand new PX3 for 25 quid this year.

 

[PeterPumpkinEater]

I got 24 Callaway Warbirds from Onlinegolf for £14.99. Not a competiton ball, but surely good enough for winter play.

 

[GolfOffshore]

Has anyone tried lake balls?...just wandering what you think. I have hit a couple before and found them to be quite good.

 

[Parmo]

Lake balls are ok for practice but not so good for playing with, they loose distance.

I got 24 Callaway Warbirds from Onlinegolf for £14.99. Not a competiton ball, but surely good enough for winter play.

Did think about changing to these Callaways as they are great off the driver but stones around the green and for putting with.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

There has been a number of threads concerning the qualities of lake balls and overall consensus seems to be steer clear. The fact that they have been immersed in water has a detrimental effect on their playing characteristics and they are best used as practice balls at best

 

[GolfOffshore]

Good point...I use them during the winter as living on an island with courses next to the beach we tend to get alot of wind driving across the fairway.


Perfect really for a round of golf with mates..wouldn't play a comp with them..

 

[Parmo]

Golf Ball Retrieval
UK Lake Balls, a successful and rapidly growing Lancashire company, specialising in providing the market with carefully graded and selected 'Lake Balls' at the lowest UK prices, is expanding its services. This is a 'cost free' operation that is designed to benefit all those concerned.

Organised night visitors regularly and without authority, 'remove' large quantities of balls from clubs countrywide. It has been estimated that a minimum of 10 million golf balls are 'lost' per year.

UK Lake Balls objective is to work with golf clubs to eradicate these problems as far as possible and protect the reputable 'lake ball' companies.

Participating clubs will see an end to 'night raids', which can prevent costly damage to lake/pond edges,

Professional 'divers' only will be used.

All approved teams are specialists that operate from within the lakes/pond's. This avoids damage to the surrounding areas caused by 'dredging' - a system generally used by children and many night teams to retrieve lost balls. Frequently this is as crude as wire shopping baskets tied to the end of ropes and thrown in to dredge the lake/pond bottom.

Diving teams will visit participating clubs at times/dates agreed, to clear the lakes/pond's of lost balls and remove any debris that may have been deposited.

The lake(s)/pond(s) are cleared on a regular basis. Any unauthorised visitors will quickly appreciate that their efforts are not going to be worthwhile.

The single biggest bonus is that UK Lake Balls can offer various different ways for clubs to benefit from our golf ball Retrieval service.

The message to every Golf Club is quite clear -


'Don't lose your balls - we will pay you for them'.

http://www.lakeballs.co.uk/shopscr189.html

Quite interesting, I wasnt aware of the damage done and I also thought the clubs where the ones collecting balls not "night raiders"!! must be some serious cash in it, but how to they know which courses have water and those that don't if its a big business, or is it like a pyrmid thingy where kids raid at night and then get paid?

 

[USER1999]

No idea, as we don't have any ponds.

On a similar subject, I heard somewhere that the 17th at Sawgrass is only about 3 ft deep, so no diving gear needed there then.

In Argentina the lakes were only about 2 ft deep, and in each one was a kid in waders, waiting to sell your ball back to you for 20 cents.

 

[vig]

Couldn't you just hold his head under water for a few seconds and get it back for nowt?

 

[GolfOffshore]

Couldn't you just hold his head under water for a few seconds and get it back for nowt?

class idea!!! haha

 

[Parmo]

When I was a kid I used to look for them and flog them to a second hand shop, but tying rope to a shopping basket and dredging ponds sounds a little, well excessive.

 

[Spoff]

I bought some pink noodle ice balls for a laugh last year and ended up really liking them!!!