Refinished balls

[MVP]

Does any one here use refinished or ex lake prov1 NXT or HX tour balls. Do you think they are good value for money? or as some people have said 'they are as good as a pinnacle' once they are re finished?

 

[brendy]

refinished means painted, if a ball has been hit out of shape, a lick of paint isnt going to fix it. Also, ive found a few laying on our course that were labelled pro v1's but were obviously not by both feel and dimple patterns.

 

[medwayjon]

They are basically crap and often forgeries mate, stay well clear of them or you could find yourself using donnays in disguise!!

 

[RGuk]

I think these balls are well dodgy. I'm guessing they are mostly lake balls. I'd rather take my chances with a brand new cheapy.
Who thought of this? Collecting lost or half wrecked balls seems so, well, pointless. Even good balls only cost a few pennies/cents to actually make surely?
I'm no expert on dimple patters (really, Dave??) but most look like anything but "premium" brand.....

Dave

 

[HomerJSimpson]

If you must buy them use them as practice balls. If they are lake balls their performance will have been drained from them lying in all that water. Best used for practice only. If you want cheap balls that perform well look at Srixon AD333 or similar

 

[HTL]

Dont go thier mate, they aint much better than range balls.

 

[USER1999]

If you had a decent prov1 in your bag, would you paint it? I thought not.

 

[Parmo]

As for refinished balls stay clear is what I have been told about them.

As said before I use AD333 and I find them great, I am a high handicapper and maybe lose 2/3 a round but the confidence in using a decent ball really knocks shots off.

I really don’t understand mid to high handicappers using Pro V1’s & HX Tour balls, they are made for low handicappers, and the only thing you gain from using them is a lower bank balance and frustration when you lose one which in turn affects your game.

As for looking for golf balls I used to do this when a kid, I used to find hundreds around the local course and sell them on and have a little extra pocket money, I believe this is now illegal.

 

[viscount17]

As for looking for golf balls I used to do this when a kid, I used to find hundreds around the local course and sell them on and have a little extra pocket money, I believe this is now illegal.

surely only if you find them before they're lost?

 

[John_Findlay]

surely only if you find them before they're lost?

Do you remember the case of the English diver who would dive for lake balls around his local course? He got prosecuted.

In Scotland, if you abandon your ball (i.e. if it's lost) then it becomes the property of the Crown. If you find a lost ball you're stealing from the Queen !!

 

[viscount17]

I can understand the diver - just - if it's construed that he's running a business. I suppose it's taken that lost balls become the property of the club - though that's pushing it as they were never theirs in the first place, unless you only lease a sleeve of balls from the pro-shop!

but John, who on earth let such a mad law as yours through (though I have seen what was done at the foot of the Mile!)

 

[John_Findlay]

It's the common law, Viscount. All abandoned property (in the UK as far as I know) reverts to the Crown...and that includes golf balls. Been that way for centuries....just little known outwith legal circles.

The diver clearly didn't know this and suffered the consequences.