• Equipment

  • New Kirland (Costco) ball on the way

Spuzz I'd still be playing the Srixon Hi Spin or the Precept EV Spin

Me too. I played the Nike Spin Control for many years - it was the EV Spin rebranded for Nike.

    Spuzz The Greg Norman endorsed Spalding Tour Edition was it's equal, imo.

    Sorry. I meant the Tour Edition- spin monster.

      ode I suspect you will be able to find those on the used sites for cheap.

      I’m sure you’re right, but I’ll probably just move on to the v3 unless I find something to be highly unpleasant in the change.

        I came home with a double dozen Kirkland latest version. Visually comparing the latest to the V2 3pc the dimple pattern is slightly different new ball has double arrows on each side on the alignment mark/logo. Price at the store was $27.99 in white only. If costco offered these in green I would have dropped a bundle on them. Nothing in yellow.

        ode I agree, those V2 3pc balls were super-spinny, super high launching, and very short (at least for me).

        I still have a few cases of the OG 4pc balls left, it's literally all I've played since the day they came out! Really glad I loaded up as soon as I heard the rumors they were being discontinued.

            customgolfcenter I still have a few cases of the OG 4pc balls

            Same here. I played in a tournament recently and lost my ball in deep grass short of the green. I find it and pitch it to the green. After I mark my ball, I notice a player in the tournament who was playing the adjacent hole looking in the same spot. So I ask what kind of ball he's looking for. He said Kirkland. I respond I'm also playing a Kirkland but it's the OG 4-piece, to which he responded, me too. I then describe my markings on the ball, two orange dots, to which he responded me too. I go back to show him my ball and he said that's it. I then look around and find another ball...sure enough it was a Kirkland 4-piece with two orange dots one above and below the logo, just like the one I found. After that I always make a unique mark on all my balls.

                pellmell
                I would have thought your markings, brand, model, number, color, placement … were sufficiently “unique”. 🤔 Pretty hard to monitor what every other player on the course/ planet is using.

                    Stu1961 Read, some pros make a mark on practice days balls different from the game day since they have a tendency to hit to the same locations

                        Bravopilot
                        Maybe that's our problem, we are not going out and hitting balls the day before the big match to where we WANT our ball to be?

                        Seriously, @pellmell, that's some serious coincidence there that I have never seen.

                            And I did go to Costco as advertised, they didn't have any of the new balls in the store. I asked my cashier if they had sold out already and she hollered over to a young guy on the computer and he putzed around on his system for a bit and told me that they were still on the way but he had no indication yet when they would arrive.

                            So, no lasting harm done.

                            SVonhof It was weird. I don't usually use an orange marker, which I found in the back of a drawer the previous day.

                              Anyone use this ball yet?

                              [unknown] Maybe Saturday I'll get one into play.

                              To me the new 3 pc ball plays basically the same as the former. It's ok. It doesn't play/feel like a $50 a dozen tour ball. I would still call it a good value.