THE ONLY Golf Ball Advice - That wants you to SAVE Money!?
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- Опубліковано 27 лют 2024
- I have seen some pretty outrageous claims in recent golf ball videos over the years... so let's put the importance of them straight.
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Well said, same story with manufacturers saying change your wedges every 60 rounds 😂
Yeah if they were free 🤣🤣🤣
scratch geezer here...my wedge is now 14 years old and my ball stops just fine. I can't find anything new(er) that performs any better for me.
@@GeezerTony ha ha habha ha quality the marketing people hate you 🤣🤣 I played with a TM atv wedge for 5 years 👍 handicap 6.8 worked for me
As a single handicapper, I am very happy with the Vice Pro Zero. I don't really need Pro Plus (Yeah they are nice, but do I really feel substantial difference? No), and as you said, in late autumn or winter I'd rather play the Vice Tour (remembering the old days with the great Noodle).
My older stepson found a Bridgestone Tiger BXS and gave it to me, five years later still loving BX and BXS
So happy to see that video! To see a pro say all you just said! I'm not super good nor super bad as a golfer, shooting anywhere between low 70s and mid 80s, and I'm using more and more often super-cheap balls (currently the Inesis distance 100). Once you've learned that they won't check as much on certain shots, you can play about 99% of the shots the course asks you to. And the 1% remaining (so 1 every 2 or 3 rounds) you take your medicine, accept that you won't be able to cosy it close to the flag and hope for a good putt after. I haven't noticed any scoring difference (average and standard deviation) from when I was using "tour level balls" (Srixon Z-star XV and Inesis Tour 900) and I haven't noticed a significant amount of change in my distances. The only real difference I've seen? Well, 9 euros vs 58 euros for 12 balls... And I end up loosing less balls since I'm less stressed about loosing them! I also often play with "tour special" balls and others that I find on the course. Provided they're not "ruined", I don't see much differences, only in "feel" and in spin around the greens (but if you know a ball is urethane covered, you anticipate more check than if you know it's surlyn/ionomere... ).
That people who don't play often and experiment are led to believe all the nonsense you've mentioned is quite infuriating. Just like the people who've been told (and believe) that 1° "never up never in" 2° "drive fr show, putt for dough" or 3° "keep your head down"
I'm a very average 14Hcp but played Srixon Z-Star. One day the ball looked perfect, but was performing poorly: running through greens not the expected flight or distance. I was about to just bin the €5 ball when I noticed that the alignment line was covering the model mark and was actually a "AD-333" ball. I accidentally conducted a blind test where the ionomer cover played like a faulty urethane ball for me.
Totally agree with experimenting and swapping softer for very cold conditions.
Refreshing content, not the usual misinformation found on UA-cam. I used to play the seed sd15 2 piece only recently switched to the Kirkland balls because they're cheaper and I can pick 2 dozen up with essentials like giant muffins and a bucket of pretzels 😂
I love finding balls in the woods I get to try different balls out without having to buy them.
I love the online ball fittings from vice. It actually recommended the tour ball. Titleist told me to buy pro v1x… I play off 25!
Great advise, real common sense, last game I played lost 3 balls through plugging and 2 out of bounds, can't afford pro v1 at that rate, though I did find about a dozen balls all better than the ones I lost, so ill just play those.
Excellent video. I am in England, it is very wet and my swing needs work. As a result I am playing old PRO v1's, Callaways, a Vice Pro and some Srixons. In these muddy conditions it makes no frigging difference at all. I hit 8 greens in regulation on Monday, and in each case the ball hit the green and stayed there, leaving a crater for me to repair. Took me longer to repair the crater than to putt out. I then found that the Taylormade I was using was a TP5X, way too hard apparently for my medium swing speed. In the summer it may well be different, and I will start using those nice Snell balls I got for Xmas. Until then, carry on regardless.
Most practical advice I have ever heard.
Thanks for a informative and logical video on the subject of golf balls.
As an American, when you said 50lb arrow I thought "wow that's heavy".
I found a Vice Tour ball in the trees when Vice wasn't a name anyone had heard of. I played with it and fell in love with Vice golf balls. Have tried them all now but still find I like the Tour best. I do use the Vice Drive in winter though.
I think my issue is if you buy a dozen there 38 quid the pro and pro plus you have to buy bulk...I managed to get Wilson staff 3 dozen a while back for 76 quid 👍
Very interesting video. Thanks for the advice mate.
My main issue with Vice, is the printing on the box is so small an tough to read, but love the balls...
Thank you for speaking so frankly about urethane and ionomer golf balls. I agree completely with your analysis.
Great video Simon. I think there's also a benefit to playing with cheaper balls. I find that if I lose an expensive one I get overly frustrated and it can affect the rest of my round. At least if I lose a cheaper one I don't really care and it doesn't affect me much, apart from my score! Which I think you covered 👍
Great video! I think the ball matters very little to out final score. (unless you're on Tour maybe). I made a video playing with a striped range ball. I didn't notice any difference in it from other balls I've played. The went the correct distance, stopped fine .......and by the way I'm a scratch player. I shot 3 under on those 6 holes I played.
Really agree!! I brought almost 150 kirkland balls from costco as there cheap and urethane but to me they are horrible to put with!! Feel hard of the putter and seem to not go very far leaving all my putts short. 😟
The best ball for you is the one you like to chip and putt with. The ball that suits the way you make your score is the best for you - regardless of it's name and construction. If you love chipping and putting with a Dunlop then have at it.
You mean srixxon
Not to mention, Dunlop has been in the rubber and plastic industry for over 100 years
Absolutely correct bro, I have always played with the ball that feels the best with my putter 👍👍
Yep, totally agree. I find lots of balls and sort them usually into practice balls to warm up with or playable.
Found a few Slazenger V300 and thought typical when mates are finding proV1’s. Decided to play them and they go just as well as others. I have nearly 4 dozen new balls waiting to be used in the summer months because as others have said too easily to lose balls in winter being plugged, under leaves or lost in the low sunlight
Great video Simon. What is your opinion of rolling golf ⛳️ balls back for club golfers? Would love to hear your views
100% agree with the statement that we are the weak link.
Played a round about a month ago with a Srixon Z Star XV Golf Ball and thought it was a great ball. Played my last round of golf with a Callaway Supersoft ball and thought it was a great ball! The only difference between the two balls was that the Supersoft cut up badly compared to the Z Star. Yes, l get that every golf ball is different, and l,ve pretty much played them all, but if you're shooting 85 or 95, then l honestly don't think there's much difference. You can play a soft or a hard ball, depending on the conditions, so just play what you like.
Some.of the best rounds I've played are with golf balls I found out in the trees.
Shout out for showing some love to the vice Drive--my favorite ball. Over 200 rounds under 80 and more than 30 at par or better last year, so there's no rule that says you can't shoot low scores with non urethane balls. Watching hackers consistently shell out fifty bucks a dozen for tour model balls? Hysterical.
You are so correct. Myself, and some other guys I know at my courses shoot a lot of rounds under 80 with ionomer covered balls. I don’t think I would shoot lower with a urethane ball unless the greens are really quite hard and they haven’t been watered or been rained on for a while. My local courses never get the greens that hard because they maintain the greens.
Lol funny you say that. I played my best 9 holes with a found ball
So well reasoned! 👍🏻😁
Absolutely fantastic video. I love how iconoclastic you can be Simon
I have played golf for 60 years, we always had a winter ball of choice, invariably it was a distance ball as no run out, greens receive a rock with delight, an putting is a lottery. Vice have a great range of balls as do some other direct to consumer brands. The so called premium balls, get lost just as easy and cheap balls, so either back your ability or find a summer ball you like the feel of and that is affordable. I sell my pick ups on eBay and get good money, that’s unless they are only suitable for my practice bag. So the balls i use are subsidised by found balls. End of rant
I just started playing the Vice Pro Zero and love the feel but if I had to pick a con is that my irons and wedges eat them up but overall a great ball.
Great advice, I used to bump around between cheap Volvik matte balls, to Kirkland's, to AD333s and also random found balls. I settled on one I liked, did a bulk buy and am enjoying consistency of feel and flight, even if my swing isn't as consistent 😅
If your swings not consistent, you're getting consistent flight whatever ball you're hitting
At last someone speaking some sense about golf balls 👍
What's your opinion on lake balls or Grade A found balls for the specific mid/premium ball you want? Cheaper, cleaned and sometimes even restamped.
Steer clear or go for it?
Maybe a good idea for a test to see how they perform on the sim in comparison with brand new ones.
I also hate how they pigeon hole equipment as high or low handicap.
I do prefer a urethane cover. I just wait until Srixon has one of their %50 off sales and get balls for the season. Works out to actually be about the same price as buying 2 piece balls.
I use nitro cheap Amazon balls £8 for 12 not bad especially in the winter, but use Callaway soft in the summer
Simon, I play around a 5 give or take 3 depending on time and all that … but a urethane ball literally only matters to me from inside 50 yards ….no where else ….and even then could I play a different shot and be just as successful because of a change in equipment ….i believe yes ….
If you can flight a 5-10yrd chip consistent over 10 shots then it matters, and you'd be better than the pros that Dan Grieve coaches .....
Well explained
you should review the wilson tour velocity’s.They are great
Well said. Ive been playing golf for 40 years other than the feel I cant tell any difference between golf balls.
58 years playing here and the same for me! Maybe a difference in sound or firmness but no difference in my scores!
Choppin and Changin 😂
Si, my Yorkshire Mum would’ve loved that!
love this was using Titleist ProV1X was playing a new course not particularly well I must add found a Kirkland Signature ball whilst looking for mine in the rough, Loved it now use those and save money into the bargain
My best round was spent watching someone we were paired up with losing at least 15 brand new pro v1's he had just bought in the pro shop. Some holes two lost off the tee.
He and his mate walked off the course after 11 holes 🤦🤦🤦🤦
My one question: How long in the water is too long for my new free ball?
A surlyn ball can have the same spin as a urethane ball and have similar ball flight, but they don't bite and stop the same way when they land. If you chip and run a lot, back spin doesn't matter as much as if you lob them in. I played the Pro Zero during 2022, it is on the harder side but I liked it anyway.
In the 90’s I played Spalding Molitors! Mine stopped!
@@andybt3989 Yes, you don't have to use urethane balls to play good golf. I used the Inesis Soft 500 in the beginning of the season and the end of the season when it was wet and 10 degrees C outside. You can still play golf with it, the Pro Zero gets to hard in cold weather. In fact I played my best round ever with the Inesis 500 in horrible conditions last year! I played 58 after hcp in one of my first rounds last year. Pouring rain, high gusting wind and I think the thermometer showed +5 degrees C! It was a booked trip with 2 hotel nights. Horrible weather and I would never ever have played in that weather unless we drove hours to get there. Yes! I played glorious with the Inesis 500! :)
Kirkland in the summer any yellow ball in the winter
I love my vice pro plus balls such a great ball for the buck. Not a fan of the tour to clicky for my liking
I've heard of bows with 50lb pull weights. How does a person shoot an arrow that weighs 50lbs?
Oh... costs 50 pounds. Sorry, I'm watching from the USA lol.
1:30 EVERY PRO V1 I HIT MY FIRST TWO YEARS OF GOLFING. Straight into the bushes. Sliced to hell. Topped into the water. Just settled with Kirkland cause they're cheap. Like my golf game.
1:44 the truth.
Just use AAAA grade used golf balls with urethane cover ❤❤
Whats your opinions on my golf spy ball tests they do every year 👀👀👀
As the biggest advocate of second hand clubs I thought you might be a bigger fan of second hand balls from eBay massive choice from 50p to £1
"Simon, you speak heresy!"
Said the golf manufacturer.
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Great video. Interesting talking a load of balls. Sorry about a load of balls 😂
Price of golf balls are an absolute rip off, especially premium. Currently buy Pearl/Grade A Callaway ERC Soft Lake balls as I can get get for £10 cheaper than new. Don't see any difference from these to new. I think compression is very understated with golf balls as a lot of golfers playing premium balls & wasting their money as they don't have enough swing speed to properly compress the ball & get the maximum performance out of it.
Shhhhh, bad golfers keep playing those Prov1s! Never bought one ever and have 4-6 in my bag all the time lol thanks to the bad golfers who think they are good and spend 60 bucks on them hahahaha
Every time I watch your videos I realize how gifted you are and I am not.😺
It’s not the value of golf ball it’s the value of the golfer lol
I don't think it matters much which ball I use and I'm off 3, I see a lot of swings out there and have never, ever seen a golfer who should be paying for new balls of any kind, swing speed etc is changing every shot and when they're duffing or thinning every other shot it makes 0 difference. Get real
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The super soft balls are awful for putting. Impossible to feel / hear. I’ve tried loads and settled on chrome soft x’s for spin and feel. A reliable dog walker collects them and charges me £1.25 each.
The more bad golfers buy the better balls the better it is for me when I'm finding them in the woods while looking for mine.
Well if bad golfers are going into the woods, you are in the woods too
@@conalsands4748 exactly.
Srixon AD333 or Soft feel are what I use! I see those paying top whack for Pro-V1’s! Why waste money on them? Is it because they see professionals use them?