Advantages: Extra distance with the driver. Excellent control and spin. Well priced high performance golf ball for the average golfer. Disadvantages: Meaningless advertising.
in the region of 85 to 90mph. In fact, it's probably a bit less, as I was conscious of being measured, and consequently most likely swung the club that little bit harder, albeit unconsciously!
~ ~ So what does this mean to me in terms of what golfball I should use?
The slower speed at which I now swing the club means that I'm simply not able to compress the ball as much as I was able in years gone by. This is especially so with balls like the Titleist Pro V. This means that I don't hit it as far as I used to. This is where the Srixon Soft Feel ball comes into its own.
My current driver, the TaylorMade 580XD, is one of the best on the market when it comes to transferring the energy from the club head to the ball. In the golf world this is called the COR factor, and the 580XD has an amazing COR factor of 0.87. This means it transfers ...
Advantages: Cheap to purchase. Virtually indestructable. Travels a long way. Disadvantages: Hard to control, with little or no spin control.
before it finally comes to rest. (Hopefully on the fairway or green!) So it will go further than a softer golfball, which most lower handicap (and professional) golfers use.
The harder cover also means it is virtually indestructible, and wont cut or go out of shape with a badly hit shot in the same way as a softer golfball. (A distinct advantage if you want to save money!)
~ ~ The down side to the Srixon Distance ball is that it?s practically impossible to impart any backspin on it when you are playing a delicate little chip or pitch shot around the green, or when you are attempting to play a ?sliding? shot to avoid a bank of trees or other obstacle that is in your way.
This means that it?s more difficult to control, and thus more difficult to get close to the pin with any degree of consistency. Hence it wouldn?t be the golfball ...
Advantages: Very very long Disadvantages: expensive to lose
I tried a Nike Golf Nike One Black GolfBall in a match play knockout yesterday, I play off 21 and my opponant was off 12 so granted i did have a few shot in hand. I have never used a Nike one black (the ball is white however) but was very impressed with the result. I found the ball which has a thin urethene cover and a enanced 408 dimples very long to hit, Longer than my usual PTS Solo golfballs. I was very impressed with the length and how straight it flew in the air.
Off the tee I only missed two fairways but the length was very impressive. I won my game 3 and 2 and to be honest I didn't really need the shots. Really though i found the combination of the balls and my Ping G2 driver excellent. on the greens my ball did truely roll further and felt very nice to hit. I felt the disatnce almost with my first putt, and was never 2 foot ...
