Pro V1

[TRS30]

A quick (and maybe silly) question.

Does it make any difference how you position a Pro V1 when hitting it off the tee?

I use the AIM markings for putting as find it helpful lining putts up but vaguly remember someone telling me the ball was softer around that part to help putting!!

 

[bobmac]

Short answer is no....long answer is noooooooooooo
Worry about your stroke, not the ball.
If you miss, it's not the balls fault

 

[TRS30]

Bob, worrying about everything is one of my (many) problems when it comes to golf......

 

[bobmac]

If you want to worry about something, have your putting stroke analysed on a computer software programme like Tomi or the Sam putting lab and examine your putter face position at impact. That will give you something to worry about.
Then come and see me

 

[TonyN]

I think J_F lines his ball up on the tee. I maybe wrong but I am sure he was doing it at Goswick.

I was thinking of doing the same when I started getting sloppy so the arrows matched the direction of the swing path I wanted. In-out.

 

[USER1999]

Isn't that a bit weird?
Considering when you mash it with a driver, you pretty much squash it flat. Inevitably, after a few hits, it won't recover properly (it is only a lump of plastic). By lining it up at this point all the time you are putting all the damage into one part of the ball. This is then the part of the ball you choose to hit with the putter, and expect a consistent roll. Up to you.

 

[Dodger]

I have heard that into the wind that lining up so the line points toward the hole gives you a more penetrating flight....not tried it but reckon it will be another golfing myth.

 

[intherough]

listen, if your good enough so that lining the lines up makes a diffence then i'd care about the answer. For me it's put it down point and hit, then walk in the tree's. where I hit the ball doesn't make any difference unless it's on the top which I have started to do.

 

[Cernunnos]

I use the AIM markings for putting as find it helpful lining putts up but vaguly remember someone telling me the ball was softer around that part to help putting!!

Sounds like an urban/golf myth to me. If it helps you psycologically to think this, then by all means try it.

 

[USER1999]

I have heard that if you hit it hard enough, the number on the ball magically changes to what ever number you have just found in the rough.

 

[slugger]

i heard that if you hit it on the valve you get more spin

 

[TRS30]

Bob, you'd want to clear your diary for awhile if i came to see you

 

[PeterPumpkinEater]

I've just bought a dozen of the new 2009 ProV1x's so looking forward to giving one of those a smash at the weekend. We suffer from a lot of wind on our course (too many jokes) and am interested to see how these perform.

Used the ProV1 to get a an eagle last Saturday, 294yrd drive and grabbed my mates Ping i10 5iron 205yrds from the pin and hit to within 8ft. Had a 7 on the par 4 next hole!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I reckon its a fallacy and makes no difference how you tee it up or all the pros would be spending ages on the tee lining it up correctly. Just peg it up, smash it and if you find it smash it again.

I'm pretty keen to try the new version to see if there is any noticeable difference though I'm not holding my breath as a mere golfing mortal that I'll see anyhthing earth shattering

 

[CliveW]

Having seen how golf balls are made, the paint/name process is completely random. If you compare two similar golf balls the lettering/dimple pattern is never the same.

 

[pigmeister]

The old ProV1`s had a visible seam around them and if you teed it up so you hit the seam, aparently it did give you an extra few yards.

 

[USER1999]

Yeah, whatever.

Can't see it myself. It's a ball, t**t it, find it, t**t it again. We are so inconsistent in strike that the orientation of the seam is irrelevant.

Given that with a driver you squash it 50% flat, why would the seam in the thin outer layer make a difference?

 

[fastmover2]

Can't see it myself. It's a ball, t**t it, find it, t**t it again. We are so inconsistent in strike that the orientation of the seam is irrelevant.

The only use of the line is as an aid to lining up! I just use it as a guide for my Linem Up pen mark.

Pelz does go in to some techno babble about ball balance but IMHO it is just that.

Just hit the b****y thing!