+1, and it's any of the premium balls nowadays
What was the 1st golf ball you regularly used ?
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+1, and it's any of the premium balls nowadays
At least you knew which ball was yours when still some distance from it. Most others would have been using permawhite bombproof pinnacle golds etc so it stuck out like a sore thumb.
They went well, felt nice and stopped ad well as any balata imo of course.
Rooter
Money List Winner
Nxt tour for me, my company bought about 200 boxes branded,then cancelled all corporate golf days, so guess where a load went!? Decent ball too! Went through at least 120 of these, most got lost in near mint condition!lol
M
MetalMickie
Guest
Dunlop Warwick, in a red wrapper or Slazenger, in a blue wrapper. Dunlop 65's were for the good golfers.
Kellfire
Blackballed
Pinnacle Gold, bought a massive batch of them when I first started playing and lost them all very quickly.
srixon 1
Journeyman Pro
The first balls I bought new and used a fair bit when I started in the mid 80's was the Seve Ballesteros. Used to get them from Argos. I then moved on to the Dunlop 65i's which I used to think were the dogs danglers at the time. It just so happened that there was one in my basket down the range yesterday and it felt like a brick. Those things must be indestructable.
Imurg
The Grinder Of Pars (Semi Crocked)
scratch
Q-School Graduate
First one I used on a regular basis was the Titleist PTS wound, made a lovely soft click off the clubface on short shots and putts.
pbrown7582
Money List Winner
Dunlop DDH
Titleist PTS
Spalding Tour Edition
Then onto pro v1 and still using.
Titleist PTS
Spalding Tour Edition
Then onto pro v1 and still using.
m10johnson
Head Pro
AD333 was the first I used consistently when I started. Moved to ProV1x about 5 months ago, due to the increased spin around the greens, but not too much off the tee.
timchump
Q-School Graduate
Ultra competition, was my first regular used favourite ball.
markgs
Tour Rookie
dunlop tour pro cheap as chips and in my opinion the most under rated ball in golf, if only you could take the dunlop logo off and put titleist on it people would love it
USER1999
Grand Slam Winner
Titleist pts wound was the ball of choice when I started playing. Then the tour balata. These were fragile. Very fragile. Nice though, if you were happy to accept they went nowhere off the driver. Every one else played topflite.
Pin-seeker
Well-known member
Ad333 for me
sev112
Tour Winner
Slazenger B51
Always loved finding those
Always loved finding those
Bratty
Princess Pouty (Queen of Fish Lips)
It was my 2nd ball, until I realised that Hippo Double Titanium were shocking for my short game! I then used those Maxfli's for years (stocked up on loads!), as they were truly awesome! Best ball I've ever used.
richart
Major Champion
Penfold Ace. Never liked Dunlop 65's for some reason.
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Snelly
Guest
Penfold Ace
Dunlop 65
Golden Ram
Pinnacle
Top Flite XL
B51
B51XD
Maxfli 500 DDH
All great balls from the early 1980's!
Dunlop 65
Golden Ram
Pinnacle
Top Flite XL
B51
B51XD
Maxfli 500 DDH
All great balls from the early 1980's!
With you and brendy on that for that particular era which I'm guessing was mid to late 1990s... it was always either that or the original Strata which was incredibly soft for a while
Before that I always played the Slazenger balata instead of the Titleist one in the early 1990s, but originally, my weapons of choice would have been the concrete-like Seve Ballesteros ball that others have referred to, the Slazenger B51 or the Tornado which had the properties of rubber. I did discover once that a lot of players in serious pitch and putt tournaments used either a Commando or Tornado for maximum control, as distance was of no consequence
