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  • New Kirland (Costco) ball on the way

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.

                    I still have a couple dozen of the last version and I am sure that I will buy some of the new as well. The Ball is not exactly what holds back my game...

                      My Costco (as of this morning) only had golf gloves. No balls, wedges, putters.