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Golf ball preference?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,525 ✭✭✭big_drive


    I'm currently using srixon zstar XV at the moment. Like them but wondering should I be using something softer. My driver swing speed is around 103 mph.
    I've only a few srixons left so might look for something different when they're gone


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,956 ✭✭✭SuprSi


    big_drive wrote: »
    I'm currently using srixon zstar XV at the moment. Like them but wondering should I be using something softer. My driver swing speed is around 103 mph.
    I've only a few srixons left so might look for something different when they're gone

    Why do you think you need a softer ball? Are you not getting enough check or does the ball not feel right? If you're hitting the ball well and it feels good off the face of the club, I wouldn't bother changing.

    Having said that, as I said earlier, if there's a different brand of premium ball going for a better price you might as well give them a go.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,525 ✭✭✭big_drive


    Just that Srixon advertise the XV ball for swing speeds over 105mph. So maybe it's not fully suitable for me.

    But then recently Titleist have started to say that swing speed makes no difference to what ball you use


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭newport2


    big_drive wrote: »
    Just that Srixon advertise the XV ball for swing speeds over 105mph. So maybe it's not fully suitable for me.

    But then recently Titleist have started to say that swing speed makes no difference to what ball you use

    A lot of this is marketing. I think it was Bubba Watson in an interview that said if this was really true, then he wouldn't compress the ball with half of his clubs. And he does.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,374 ✭✭✭✭Seve OB


    I have been getting decent tour balls for years be the pro-v's, callaways, nike etc... I generally found little or no difference between any of them.

    I recently purchased a box of cheap balls Callaway Warbirds. OMG did I notice a difference! Did I what? Not really off long shots, but anything near the green they were pretty bad in stopping. Now I'm not the bees knees when it comes to putting spin and controlling the ball, but it was amazing the difference once these balls hit the green, they kept going...and going...and off the back!!!!

    Net result is where in the last year or so my game has improved a lot and I have found myself putting for birdie a lot. But recently, I'm finding those birdie putts are few and far between and when I think about it, putting with these balls is quite different also. The "feel" just isn't there.


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