What Balls on icy greens?

[popeye]

This may be a daft one but over the last few weeks or local greens have been semi frozen and so you get hard bounces and plenty of roll- almost like the height of summer!
Usually I just play crappy balls that I find in the bushes over the winter but would a premium ball that offer greenside control help when the greens are like this? Or I'm I making 2+2=5?

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Yes, you are making 2+2=5 I'm afraid. No ball will stop on a hard icy green.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

This may be a daft one but over the last few weeks or local greens have been semi frozen and so you get hard bounces and plenty of roll- almost like the height of summer!
Usually I just play crappy balls that I find in the bushes over the winter but would a premium ball that offer greenside control help when the greens are like this? Or I'm I making 2+2=5?

When it's frozen it makes no difference what you use. They'll all hit the hard ground and bounce. Any spin from a premium ball is negated by the conditions

 

[IanM]

yep...its frozen, so just enjoy the wall and exercising the golf muscles!

 

[Imurg]

I did actually get one to stick on a frozen green once....
It had a layer of frost under a layer of ice with rain on the top.
A towering wedge embedded the ball in the ice.....true "hit and sit"

 

[patricks148]

When it's frozen it makes no difference what you use. They'll all hit the hard ground and bounce. Any spin from a premium ball is negated by the conditions

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in fact i find a premium ball less use in cold conditions as you lose distance ive found

 

[popeye]

Yes, you are making 2+2=5 I'm afraid. No ball will stop on a hard icy green.

Kind of thought that but wanted to make sure!
The surface of the greens weren't solid but where pretty firm just below the surface.

 

[drdel]

Brass balls in cold weather.

 

[garyinderry]

Sqaush ball, high compression is the answer.