Practice balls/bag..

[Fish]

So you pop to your own clubs practice area with your ball bag in tow, empty its contents onto the grass and start hitting balls, I suppose mainly mid to short irons and wedges is the order of the day, but, what's in your bag, are they a mix of balls you've picked up around the courses you play, are they balls you've retired to your bag that you play with religiously each week so there the same but a bit scruffy here & there, or do you have the funds to place the same new balls of equal quality in your practice bag to that which you play with each week?

If its a mixed bag of odds & sods but you specifically play with a chosen ball in all your comps, then surely your practice balls and bag should reflect that?

Over to you...

 

[pokerjoke]

I have 40 prov1x in my practice bag.
20 have a red circle all the way around and 20 a blue one.
This helps me when im doing my yardages.
The embarrassing thing is my bag is a plastic carrier bag I must look into this.
The good thing is the practice area is so like the course,and the greens are just as bad.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Mine is a mixture of retired balls and pick ups but they are all premium ones. Pro V's, Penta's, Z Stars etc

Got about 80-100 balls in there.

 

[la_lucha]

So you pop to your own clubs practice area with your ball bag in tow, ...

I lol'ed

 

[SAPCOR1]

My ball bag is full of older balls, Top Flites and other distance balls. So full now can hardly get the zip closed.

I suppose I should be using the same balls I do for playing but I will play with any semi decent ball.

Keep any premium balls such as Pro-V's for when I play a nice links course. Not that I buy any, all are pick ups and usually only been hit once by the looks of them

 

[Imurg]

Any practice I do is either on the range(range balls), on the course ( normal balls) or on the short course ( any old POS I can find)..
Never used a grass range and my own balls....I'd be walking miles picking them up from all corners of the range....

 

[SVB]

i bought a load of practice grade pro vs of ebay, £15 ish for 4 doz iirc and use those (got half a dozen swindle grade incl in the pack when I had a sort through also - bonus!).

S

 

[Deleted member 18588]

I really cannot see that the ordinary club golfer/forum member will gain any appreciable advantage to practising only with the same brand.

Perhaps practise with balls of a similar construction but beyond that smacks of either OCD or delusions of adequacy.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Any practice I do is either on the range(range balls), on the course ( normal balls) or on the short course ( any old POS I can find)..

I think i can guess what that stands for :rofl:

 

[Robobum]

I have a bag full of absolute rascal balls. Top flites, pinnacles, the works. Some in there that I've never heard of. That way, I'm not really bothered if I don't pick them all back up.

Got a small bag of 10 old scabby pro vs that I'll take to the chipping/ pitching green.

 

[pbrown7582]

I have a bag of scabby pick ups and any old thing, and also a bag of pearl
Grade pro v1's for chipping practice. I just don't spend enough time practicing!

 

[mcbroon]

Mine are odds and sods, really. Some crappy pickups, some retired from active service.

I can't be doing with rocks, though. I was up at the practise ground last week and found a Top Flite something or other. It was genuinely like hitting a stone. Can't see much point in practising with that.

 

[NWJocko]

Just use the free range ones

Was thinking of chucking a dozen or so older balls I've used in my carry bag to practice chipping. That's if I ever start practicing chipping right enough!!!

 

[mikejohnchapman]

I have approx 80 Pro v1 & x in my bag. Mainly ones I have used and are worn plus ones I have found.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I have 50 Pro V for chipping and pitching and another bag with any old rubbish to bash out on the practice field when warming up before a round or practicing

 

[srixon 1]

Mine is full of the original pro v 1s. It is a titleist one and is somewhere in the garage. Hasn't seen the light of day for at least five years.

 

[RobertB]

good quality recovered pro vi/x and those that I rough up in play... about 70-80 in total.

invaluable as I've spent time and have reasonable confidence in shots from 130 down to 30 yds in 5 yd steps with PW, 52, 56, 60 and normal grip, choked down by 1", club face square, slightly open and then full and 9-3 swings.... and combos thereof.

 

[3565]

This ball bag in tow? ............... Do you mean it literally?

All Bridgestone 330rx/rxs/s balls in a green bag I got free from a golf mag years ago. I also have a dozen lesser balls like proVs/top flite/srixons to finish off my warm up with driver that I don't collect, If I was practising then I would pick them up.

 

[Oddsocks]

Our range gets busy as its one of the only grass ranges in the area therefore using your on balls isn't an option. But I do want to get a bag of something have decent in a different colour so it's clear on the short game area which are mine

 

[Bobirdie]

I hit any old tottie on the practice range. Use the same ball i play for chipping and putting though