PING Golf Balls.

[Atticus_Finch]

I was discussing this with my playing partner yesterday and we soon realized that Ping seem to be the only major golf manufacturer that don't make balls.
Anyone know why this is? Have they ever made them?
Have they got plans to start making them?
It strikes me as quite strange that this is the case, as every other manufacturer has a foothold in this market.

Jezz? PaulOH?

 

[GB72]

Not sure. Was surprised to see Mizuno golf balls in Thailand. Never seen them for sale over here either.

 

[mass]

A_F i got 2 10L paint buckets of balls from my father in law and i am sure i saw a ping golf ball in it, but all these balls are at least 10-15 years old am sure some of the people will have more knoweldge than me

 

[madandra]

I have one !!!!!!!!!!

 

[madandra]

I have had this for years and I use it for putting practice. If the ball runs true the both halves dont mix. I have also seen a flourescent green/red one about 20 years ago.

 

[Liam_Austin]

I so want one of them now haha

 

[DCB]

In the mid 80s Ping had balls on the market that had two different colours on them, vivid coulours if I remember right. You stood there early on a saturday morning, hung over from the night before and watching a purple and lime green ball wobble towards the hole. It either put you off drinking or put you off Ping balls !

 

[DCB]

Oops Madandra beat me to it, at least his ball isn't too brightly coloured.

 

[billyg]

I'm quite surprised too. This particular market isn't anywhere near as saturated as other sectors within golf.

I can only guess that once the tooling and marketing are done there isn't enough margin in it or they just made a strategic decision to pursue other goals.

I wouldn't rule anything out in the future particularly in the medium/premium price bracket. If TM can make a go of it then anything is possible.

I think the idea of a ball such as Madandra has posted is great but I have doubts that it would conform under todays regulations.

If there was blue with yellow dots or some other non-DPM golf balls out there for sale I would be very interested. Anything that can be found more easily in the tall stuff. Almost nothing annoys me more than plonking one down just off the fairway and having to take a stroke and right it off - grrrr

I have on good authority that the purple ones don't go as far



Nice bit of memorabilia though

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I remember the ping balls in the 80's. There was the green and white one a la the photo, a purple and white version, orange and white and pink and white.

Not sure what compression etc they were and never saw them on open sale anywhere. The only use I saw with them was when it was a white out on the course and very frosty. The purple and orange versions did stand out better

 

[madandra]

My mate had the yellow/red one and it split in two when he teed off so I never dared smash this one.

 

[Leftie]

On a slightly different tangent, I wonder how many of the major golf equipment suppliers actually manufacture the golf balls that are branded with their name. I suspect that there are a limited number of manufacturers, probably most in the far east, who make the balls for them. Is it possible that the Titleist ball you love could be identical to one with (for example) Srixon or Callaway printed on it, the only difference being branding and marketting?

btw I'm not by any means suggesting that there is no difference between different balls within a "manufacturers" range as obviously there is a vast difference.

Could the proposition also be extended to club heads, shafts, etc? Perhaps for instance Callaway woods - heads made in one country, shafts made in another, assembled in US of A and sold as an American product??

Dunno. Just asking.

 

[madandra]

If I see someting that says 'Made in Britain' it means the component parts were assembled here. If you want something genuinely from these shores it MUST say manufactured in Britain as this is a decleration that all component parts were sourced and made in this country. It has been mentioned on here recently that Tiger Woods irons only say NIKE on them as opposed to them being made in a NIKE sweatshop .. aherm .. sorry factory.

 

[Parmo]

Well lads... if you have more brass than brains here ye go

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Collection-of-Nike...1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[John_Findlay]

I want to use the bright yellow/green balls they used to do when I was younger. Great for identifying your ball.... and for finding it in the rough.

Anybody know whether Titleist do a ProvV1 in anything but white? Haven't seen any.

 

[Parmo]

John,
I have found a titleist yellow ball once, so they must do one. I dont know why so many people look down on using yellow balls they are great in all weathers.

 

[John_Findlay]

Cheers Parmo,

I'll have to look into this. I loved them. So easy to find.

With every man and their dog using the ProV1's nowadays it's actually a great way of making sure you don't hit the wrong ball, too. Might have to order them specially, but probably end up losing fewer.

 

[Leftie]

As far as I am aware, the only yellow Titleist ball available is the PTS Solo.

 

[Parmo]

The only ones I can find are "YELLOW TITLEIST PTS SOLO" no mention of Pro vs.

 

[billyg]

Ive got a yellow Titleist knocking about somewhere that I found a couple of weeks ago. I'll dig it out and see if it gives any clues.