2023 Season - What ball will you be playing?

Golfgraffix

When asked at a corporate day, Colin Montgomerie (I think) answered.

Q. “Colin, for the average golfer what is the difference between a lowish end ball at £1 and a high end tour ball at £4?”

A. “ about £3”

opinionated3

For what it's worth there's a good article right now on the mygolfspy website relating to ball fittings and using the correct ball to your swing/clubs. Worth a read...

spacecoyote

This is it

https://mygolfspy.com/golf-ball-fitting-101/?utm_source=convertkit&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=You%27re+Using+The+WRONG+Golf+Ball+%F0%9F%98%B3%20-%2010123614

kod12

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120271236#Comment_120271236

Do many places in Ireland do this?

Mantis Toboggan

Kirkland ball pretty all of last year, great ball.

swededmonkey

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120248278#Comment_120248278

I'm after buying z stars recently based on online reviews. How did you find them?

dan_ep82

Good. I didn’t see as much spin around the greens as I wanted but it was mid summer with fast greens so harder to see. They’d still stop but every now and then I’d be surprised by a roll out. A handful of weird ball flights with 2 or 3 different balls (out of maybe 36/48) seemed off so I swapped them out and seemed fine then.

Decent durability, felt ok putting. Slightly longer than tp5 and prov1 with irons. Couldn’t get them at a much cheaper price then proV,tp5 so swapped back as I felt more confident with those.

The Guru 123

I’m a scratch golfer and play/practice for at least an hour or 2 probably 5/6 times a week.

Just saying that to qualify and give a bit of context to what I’m about to say next.

I can tell the difference between a hard ball and a soft ball.

Beyond that there’s not a hope I could tell the difference between different soft balls. No way.

Of course when I’m practicing sometimes I’ll hit 2 drivers with different ball that both feel the same and one will go 10/15 yards further but I wouldn’t have noticed a consistent enough trend of any particular ball going further and most likely the difference is just I produced slightly better launch conditions on 1 of them or 1 got a firmer bounce etc.

Likewise around the greens sometimes a chip/pitch will check up faster than others but again I’d usually put this more down to my strike quality and the greens than any difference in golf ball.

Generally I find if I strike it right then the ball will end up broadly where I want it and using one ball or another won’t make much difference.

I generally play whatever (decent) ball I find or whatever soft golf balls are on sale. I’ve never bought Pro Vs in my life. Obviously have found a lot of them and seem to win a lot of them as prizes etc so it’s mostly them I play with but when I’m using any other soft ball I don’t notice any difference in my performance to be honest!

mjsc1970

Any Pro V first and foremost

But if any high end from other makes come out of the bag that I've found, I'll play them.

Prefer the softer feel on the chips and putts

hogie_l

Big fan of the NLU guys. Titleist has obviously been one of the top balls now for quite a while. Definitely want to try the brand new Pro V1 and 1x this year.

skinny90

elverys have the buy one get one half price but an additional 20% off using Patrick20 for paddy’s day.

I got 24 Tp5 pix for 78€

bakerbhoy

Predominately pro v . On days with lighter winds I sometimes will play the x. I do see different flights between these balls so even with my moderate swing speed I do benefit from using these premium balls. Probably a kiss of death but lately i am wearing them out instead of losing them.🤐

elgstring

I received 3 dozen pro v1s as gifts this year so that'll be my ball for hopefully the next while. On a separate note, Manhattan (yes the popcorn manufacturer) sell pro v1x 2021 for 46.95 euro - they must have a factory load because the offer has been appearing on my screen for years now.

boccy23

Good offer from Clubhouse Golf, 4 dozen for the price of 3:

https://www.clubhousegolf.co.uk/acatalog/Titleist_Golf_Balls.html

Works out at €42.50 per dozen.

benny79

I have about 24 brand new Pro v's that Ive had for about 2 years which I have won keep saying I'll keep them for a special occasion and never use them 😂 Nothing worse than losing a brand new Pro V! I also have a box of seeds and seeve of TP 5's that will probably get used first along with about 40 second hand (finds) Pro v's 😂😂

Sausages14

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120442462#Comment_120442462

Do you still have your communion money as well?

copacetic

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120442318#Comment_120442318

Everywhere has the 4 for 3 now on premium titleist balls, it’s a titleist offer (although their site is about dearest place to buy them). Can’t go wrong with them at that price.