pbrown7582
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This is me too i bought a batch of pearl pro v's for my practice ball bag.
How important is it stick with one type of ball?
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This is me too i bought a batch of pearl pro v's for my practice ball bag.
Stuey01
Journeyman Pro
Wins the thread.
Maybe on full shots, but think even average golfers can easily tell the difference on and around the greens.
Actually, have to say I'm surprised by some of the responses in this thread given how much flack 'rocks' or 'concrete' balls usually get on the forum...
Given the evidence suggested here, some of you must be wasting a fortune on premium balls when a nice 15-ball pack of Topflite XLs apparently does the same job
BTatHome
Tour Winner
Not the XL's !!Maybe on full shots, but think even average golfers can easily tell the difference on and around the greens.
Actually, have to say I'm surprised by some of the responses in this thread given how much flack 'rocks' or 'concrete' balls usually get on the forum...
Given the evidence suggested here, some of you must be wasting a fortune on premium balls when a nice 15-ball pack of Topflite XLs apparently does the same job
...... Some Top Flite Gamer's maybe
Tommo21
Tour Winner
If I can't get a ball to check up with a firmly hit half 58 wedge I don't want to know. Pro v, Z stars and the like will all do that for me. In saying that, a few years ago, for a laugh I knocked a Dunlop lo/co round Haddington GC in 72 shots, bogied the last for 1 over par.
Not the XL's !!
...... Some Top Flite Gamer's maybe
Remember that one from my time as equipment editor, but what was the other TopFlite model launched at the same time...?
Going to have to Google it now!
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
I can tell a difference between Topflites and ProVs.
I can feel a difference between the 3 basic types - Premium (prov), Mid-range(nxt tour) and budget (Topflite).
There is a bit crossover between the 3 just to compmicate matters, but stick half a dozen different brands of each type on the floor and I'd struggle to tell the difference between types.....as the vast majority of amateur golfers would too..
I can feel a difference between the 3 basic types - Premium (prov), Mid-range(nxt tour) and budget (Topflite).
There is a bit crossover between the 3 just to compmicate matters, but stick half a dozen different brands of each type on the floor and I'd struggle to tell the difference between types.....as the vast majority of amateur golfers would too..
chellie
Tour Winner
Yeah
Wonder if I'll have changed my view on golf balls when I'm no longer a beginner though.
See the Gamer is still going, but think the other one might have been the Freak possibly?
Do you mean between types or brands?
GB72
Money List Winner
It was the Freak, I had the pleasure of reviewing both types for one of the first GM reader review panels.
BTatHome
Tour Winner
Gamers are surprisingly good, shame you need about 5 of them to survive a whole round, the V2 were apparently much more resilient.
duncan mackie
Money List Winner
Given the evidence suggested here, some of you must be wasting a fortune on premium balls when a nice 15-ball pack of Topflite XLs apparently does the same job
you are obviously over simplyfing it for a rise, but I will bite!
1. not all cheap balls are plastic coated concrete - obvious example would be Srixon Soft Feel
2. everybody will be able to tell the difference between a premium ball and a plastic coated concrete ball; that doesn't mean that they could play different shots with them!
3. very few could tell the difference between a cheap soft ball and a soft premium ball in terms of feel - some (but less than they think) could detect a clear difference in performance (of some sort) between, for example, a Srixon Soft Feel and a Pro V1.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
Brands - I think.
Put 6 premium balls down and you'll struggle to tell a difference - same with 6 mid price and 6 budgets....
Pin-seeker
Well-known member
Agreed. If any one on here really believes they could tell the difference between say a ,Pro V1,Z-star or B330 then they need to get on Tour. Or You Bet.
Five&One
Head Pro
I have a dozen Nike distance balls in my bag which I use on all Par 5 holes. The rest of the time I use AD333. If I try a different ball I hit a few baskets off the practice area before I'd use them in a meaningful round.
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Agreed, with possibly one or two exceptions...
Blue in Munich
Crocked Professional Yeti Impersonator
Would those being Callaways?
Certainly what I had in mind at the premium end - definitely a harder feel off the putter and around the green with the original Hex Series, although not so sure about the latest models. I have a few to try when the season really gets going
kid2
Money List Winner
Iv said this in another thread the weekend........If you play with the one ball long enough you will get to know how it performs......
Regardless of how cheap or expensive it is.....
Now i will draw a line at Feel..
For me they have to feel soft around the greens which kind of discounts the really budget balls......But to be honest i think that if you took the names off of 3 mid range balls and 3 tour balls and asked a number of players to choose which is which based on feel i'll hazard a good guess that they'd struggle to tell which was which........
I think the advantage of tour balls is they let you be that bit more aggressive around the greens and say from 40-50 yards out......But thats about it......Any mid range ball can match them for feel and distance off the clubs...So it basically boils down to if your a player that fires a ball all the way to a flag.....Or your a player that see's the shots from a bump and run perspective......
At the moment i think im plenty good enough for the latter but would struggle unless i practiced a hell of a lot to achieve the former.....
On a side note i dont feel so bad either when i belt one of my Wilson Staff DX2's into the cabbage....:lol:
Regardless of how cheap or expensive it is.....
Now i will draw a line at Feel..
For me they have to feel soft around the greens which kind of discounts the really budget balls......But to be honest i think that if you took the names off of 3 mid range balls and 3 tour balls and asked a number of players to choose which is which based on feel i'll hazard a good guess that they'd struggle to tell which was which........
I think the advantage of tour balls is they let you be that bit more aggressive around the greens and say from 40-50 yards out......But thats about it......Any mid range ball can match them for feel and distance off the clubs...So it basically boils down to if your a player that fires a ball all the way to a flag.....Or your a player that see's the shots from a bump and run perspective......
At the moment i think im plenty good enough for the latter but would struggle unless i practiced a hell of a lot to achieve the former.....
On a side note i dont feel so bad either when i belt one of my Wilson Staff DX2's into the cabbage....:lol:
