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Before any of the muckier minded pipe up with questions of passionate liaisons with Thai 'women' of questionable gender origin I'm asking about golf balls! :D

Are they just softer than ordinary bloke balls, if they are does that mean they will travel farther and spin more? Don't worry I'll not be stuffing my sack with pink balls, just curious...

...oh dear this thread is going to descend into the gutter isn't it :o
 
I think it's all to do with compression, to get the most out of golf balls you need to compress it. so they will normally be a two piece ball with a low compression rateing where as with three piece ball you have to compress all three layers to get the best out of it.
 
If you're a fairly slow swinger - oops there we go again - then a ladyBall may actually work quite well.
Hey, if you find one on the course then use it for a hole or 2 (snigger snigger!) but make sure nobody sees you...
 
I'm a hard and fast swinger Imurg in fact my pro is helping me slow things down a bit :o

What I don't understand is the spin thing. Is spin created by a soft outer mantle but firm inner mantle then? Which is why a three piece ball spins more than a two piece?
 
Interesting thread. My mate (honest not me) has a slow swing, well he's all arms actually and only gets the ball out to about 170 ish, which is pretty cr@p for a 42 year old eh? Would one of these help him? Not that he'd use it, he refuses to use those pink tees!!!!!
 
Interesting thread. My mate (honest not me) has a slow swing, well he's all arms actually and only gets the ball out to about 170 ish, which is pretty cr@p for a 42 year old eh? Would one of these help him? Not that he'd use it, he refuses to use those pink tees!!!!!
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I am sure that a lot on here would benefit from useing a two piece ball for distance, however some will still want the feel around the greens that balls like the pro v1 gives.
 
I'm a hard and fast swinger Imurg in fact my pro is helping me slow things down a bit :o

What I don't understand is the spin thing. Is spin created by a soft outer mantle but firm inner mantle then? Which is why a three piece ball spins more than a two piece?
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I know this is a novel approach, but if you type 'what creates spin on a golf ball' into google there are lots of possible answers; this seems as good as any http://www.helium.com/items/1347781-why-does-a-golf-ball-spin

one site did suggest that you should wash your balls frequently :o :o
 
I'm a hard and fast swinger Imurg in fact my pro is helping me slow things down a bit :o

What I don't understand is the spin thing. Is spin created by a soft outer mantle but firm inner mantle then? Which is why a three piece ball spins more than a two piece?
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I know this is a novel approach, but if you type 'what creates spin on a golf ball' into google there are lots of possible answers; this seems as good as any http://www.helium.com/items/1347781-why-does-a-golf-ball-spin

one site did suggest that you should wash your balls frequently :o :o
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i sometimes lick mine but was told by the greenkeepers to stop showing off. :D
 
But viscount I know that strike is what causes backspin but people use different balls because some balls spin more than others. But what is responsible for that difference between balls?

BigSlice that's just wrong.
 
I thought the lady golfers used a different ball as the majority don't swing hard enough to compress the ball properly. I had a few Pinnacle Lady's in my practice bag which I'd obviously picked up in error and even a good quality shot is usually shorter than a comparable normal compression ball
 
As I understand it, it is a combintation of all the layers, a soft cover material and then appropriate inner layers so that the effect of the club on the cover is maximised. Might be worth looking at the websites of some of the ball manufacturers like Titleist, Srixon, Bridgestone or Callaway as they usually have information about how their balls are constructed and the effect of this. I think the idea with the multilayer balls is that they enable to ball to react differently depending on how hard it is struck so spin is maximised with short shots and reduced when the ball is hit harder.

What this thread really needs however is someone who knows as much about golf balls as Ethan does about club shafts. Sadly I am not that man.
 
Cheers viscount :D to be fair if we all used the magic of t'interweb and subscribed to the philosophy of google will save us then this wonderful forum would look a bit more like the TG one! ;)

Having read the article it seems though the main difference is the urethane cover for short chip shots. How expensive is urethane then and why don't they make a two piece with a urethane cover? I know the big guns never would but why doesn't someone like Pinnacle do it?
 
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