Yellow balls

[Cernunnos]

Yes, I read that article, was interesting. My only aversions is I can't stand football & my first reaction is I wouldn't want to look like a complete idiot playing with a ball with football markings... However I can see the sense in the idea & am prepared to look a twit on the course to see if there is anything in it at least once.

I supose the more pros that we see using something like this the less foolish we'll feel I supose.

 

[ricardodaintino]

I also have a pink bayhill ball that was bought for me as a stocking filler last year.

I cannot join in the debate as to if it is easy to find or hit... I've not been brave enough to endure the abuse if i pulled it out of the bag!

 

[Cernunnos]

And if you lost it, you just wouldn't forgive yourself...

 

[Spoff]

I also have a pink bayhill ball that was bought for me as a stocking filler last year.

I cannot join in the debate as to if it is easy to find or hit... I've not been brave enough to endure the abuse if i pulled it out of the bag!

I bought, and played with some pink balls last year as a laugh. My mates were more embarassed than me. I went on to shoot my best ever score at that point and felt obluged to carry on using them!!

 

[viscount17]

I've found several orange ones, which just seems to confirms murph's view on how easy they are to lose. either that or those who use them are more likely to lose them. never used one as there isn't as much contrast between ball and grass (strangely) when over one.

yellows I have no problem with, and under some lighting conditions are an advantage.

bet if Pro V's were available in yellow there wouldn't be the same bad reaction to them.

 

[time_vans]

I dont know about yellow balls but a friend of mine had an orange penis.......he reckons it turned that colour after he got layed off work and spent all day watching porn and eating cheesy wotsits!

 

[CarpeDiem]

I shall hang my head in shame but I have:

Orange, Pink and Blue

 

[toyboy54]

SammmeBee.......Why?WERe you hit with one,or lost your one and only,why the strenght of feeling?(did someone beat you in the club championship using one?
Come on we are curious!!

 

[SammmeBee]

Some things are just wrong and i cannot stand yellow balls - i would probably just pick it up and throw it in the bushes and give them a nice shiny Pro V to replace it.....my old man does it with really old knackered (thankfully white ones) - he gets a but annoyed when I pick it up on the 1st green and chuck it away.....the look on his face the first time was priceless.....

Yellow balls are nearly as bad being a Fulh*m supporter......

 

[DCB]

Well,

Jerry Pate used an orange ball to win the 1982 Players Championship. He says he would play one again if Titleist, which he represents today, would make one.

and

Four PGA Tour golfers, all under contract to Nike, agreed to play a black golf ball on the par-3, 162-yard 16th hole at the TPC of Scottsdale, during the 2005 FBR Open in Arizona, to call attention to the new Nike Black One ball, which isn't totally black like the promotional ball.

None of the four, Stewart Cink, Justin Leonard, K.J. Choi or Rory Sabbatini, came close to a hole-in-one, but they got the effect Nike wanted with the promotion.

 

[SammmeBee]

Well,

Jerry Pate used an orange ball to win the 1982 Players Championship. He says he would play one again if Titleist, which he represents today, would make one.

and

Four PGA Tour golfers, all under contract to Nike, agreed to play a black golf ball on the par-3, 162-yard 16th hole at the TPC of Scottsdale, during the 2005 FBR Open in Arizona, to call attention to the new Nike Black One ball, which isn't totally black like the promotional ball.

None of the four, Stewart Cink, Justin Leonard, K.J. Choi or Rory Sabbatini, came close to a hole-in-one, but they got the effect Nike wanted with the promotion.

Not yellow.......

 

[Smiffy]

Anybody remember the old ping half and half balls, they were even easier to spot? They did have some horribly lurid pink and purple ones though.

I remember when I first started playing and had my first couple of lessons with Paul Hugget at the Nevill Golf Club in Tunbridge Wells. The practice ground there was (still might be for all I know) right next to the 18th fairway.
I was using those old "half and half" balls during my lesson when some old biddy came around the dogleg on the 18th and proceeded to walk up to one I had pulled onto the fairway and hit it up towards the green. Her original lilly white ball was sitting up like a dogs doodah in the middle of the fairway!!
Paul looked at me, I looked at him and we both gave that look that said it all.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I remember the Ping half and half. There were loads of different colours. I remember as a young assistant that the most popular brands of ball in yellow and orange were titleist (not sure which model) and surprisingly the Dunlop DDH (remember them). Low handicappers use to buy them (I kid you not) for use in the winter as they were one of the few makes on the market that weren't an out and out pebble to hit

BTW Come on you super Fulham!!!

 

[theeaglehunter]

fluorescent pink balls are easier to find than yellow in my experience, baby pink are pointless though. I would highly recommend them-I only have the ones I find though.

 

[Herbie]

I prefer these myself.

 

[Herbie]

Im gonna get me 500 of these for winter.
Is about as likely as me growing a third arm!