Maxfli Tour 40% off

Jelopster · 2021-12-20T02:07:35+00:00

My Golf Spy has a special 40% off code good through tomorrow at Golf Galaxy. Comes out to $21/doz for a very good ball. Hurry and grab some! After leavi...

sdandrea1

Maugust789 Regardless, all in for under $140 and I'm good thru June of 2022.

You can actually stay with the same ball for 7 months? What's that like?

Jelopster

sdandrea1 You can actually stay with the same ball for 7 ~~months~~ holes? What's that like?

Maugust789

sdandrea1 You can actually stay with the same ball for 7 months? What's that like?<

I guess I will find out. I've never done it before.

Eguller

sdandrea1 You can actually stay with the same ball for 7 months? What's that like?

One of the guys in our reg. group played the exact same ball for 8 rounds. It wasn't pretty at its retirement. 😳

DonM

I tried it this morning, and it has expired. Thought it was worth a try.

I see they have a 4 dozen pack for $105.

Maugust789

Eguller
Wow
My supply could last 10 years at that rate.

Eguller

Maugust789

...And you think Buzzers are cheap ? He also plays a putter that is older than almost everyone on this Forum. 🙃

Bravopilot

How long do you guys play a ball? I think of my game as needing as much help as possible. My lowest score is 73 on Par 71 course at typical Men's (White) tees at the time. However, I can play 89 the next day and feel exactly the same about my game. I am the bad guy to play handicap as I seldom shoot that.

New balls are better, clean balls are more aerodynamic. Scratches do affect flight, how much???

I swap out a ball if it has a small scratch/nick on it as I have many. I seldom play the same ball or color during a round, just pull what is in the bag. I retain all used balls and then hit them in the range as my way of donating to the cause.

I do not play used/found balls. Does it make much difference? Do you HO'ers swap out brands as willingly as you do clubs?

Perhaps I'm looking at this all wrong?

colej

Bravopilot

I don’t think you’re over thinking it. I may play a ball off the tee with a slight scuff but the minute it Betrays me it’s out! If they’re scratched at all I save them for practice.

If I find one that’s brand I’d like to try I’ll hit it. Providing its not beat to death. Water balls I will not go get them or play them.

Typhoon

Bravopilot New balls are better, clean balls are more aerodynamic. Scratches do affect flight, how much???

I swap out a ball if it has a small scratch/nick on it

This reminds me of Don’s thread about putting. Too much thinking about shit that you shouldn’t. I’ll play the same ball for weeks. We don’t have ball washers so the only way it gets cleaned is if I spit on it or the grass is wet. They have scratches, dings, scuffs… but does it really matter?? Who knows?? My ball ends up at the range when it’s the worst looking one in the bag.

I look at it like this… do you hit every shot perfectly coming off the club? No… so how can you blame a ball with a scuff mark for coming up a yard short…. Maybe you hit a soft spot in the fairway, maybe the green is hard. Major gouges, yes, the ball is done but how do you know if that little nick just saved your ass by coming up a yard short of the woods or a water hazard? The flip side is maybe the nick prevented you from carrying the hazard by a yard… I never blame the ball. Sometimes maybe that scuff has you hit a downslope for another 30 yards but a new ball carries you past it and you don’t get the benefit of the slope. None of us, including me, are that good that we should worry about balls so much.

We have a guy who laments over using a TP5 or a TP5x…. “What’d Ray post yesterday?”… “92”. “Did he use the TP5 or the X😂😂😂”. We have a good laugh over that.

Here are a couple random balls I just pulled out now. I usually carry less than 6 balls.

KCee

Bravopilot I'm pretty much like you although my low is only 78. I'll switch brands and models pretty easily. If it has a urethane cover I usually like it. The big exceptions were the Kirkland 3 pc V1 which I found noticeably shorter off the tee and the original Titleist AVX which I found to be an uncontrollable super ball around the greens. Pretty much everything else is playable. I like some a bit better than others, but not enough to only play that ball. I hear you should stick with 1 model for consistency, but I have tried that and it didn't improve my scores.

I will keep playing a ball as long as possible. I don't mind minor scratches or scuffs, but if it looks major then I'll put it aside to be donated to the range. I can sometimes go a good 2.5 rounds without losing a ball although if you saw my scores you might think I lost several sleeves.

Jelopster

Typhoon They have scratches, dings, scuffs… but does it really matter?? Who knows??

MGS did some limited testing on this:
https://mygolfspy.com/mygolfspy-lab-how-does-cover-damage-affect-golf-ball-flight/

Bravopilot

Typhoon Thanks, you need a bigger bag and more balls in the many pockets a bigger bag offers. I also can't tell much difference in balls. However, as a pilot (we are never wrong publically) I do blame the ball and the clubs. As you pictured, it has to have some impact during putting.

Bravopilot

Jelopster Thanks, now remember reading this before. I agree with the results, makes sense to me. Sadly, so does Typhoon

Par4QC

Typhoon They have scratches, dings, scuffs… but does it really matter??

I have drivers that are old. And have been played a lot of rounds, and I use driver on every hole over 180. Some of those drivers I could probably pass off as 'new/shopworn'. Because they never touch any ball with any type of mark or scuff.
Hell yes, it matters.
A putter face can also be damaged. Not mine.😉

Typhoon

Jelopster I saw that when it first came out. As soon as I saw Iron Byron … and not a random golfer from Golfbuzz I just took it as a read. My clubs look like new and I play whatever I pull out of the bag. I hit range balls … clubs look fine. Some guy blames a scuff mark on the ball for shooting 100 and not a 99.

In the pro shop we tell the people buying premium balls not to use a sharpie on them. That way when we find them in the woods they are pristine.

Typhoon

I just gave the golf school 10 brand new dozen balls. We give nice balls out to the kids in clinics for prizes. The balls were from the early 1990’s… Top Flite z balata, Strata Tour professional, Strata ML Balata, Maxfli Revolution…. Dozens I won from scrambles that I just never got to.

Bravopilot

Typhoon I have Home Depot buckets of new, never used balls. Offered them to the First Tee in my area, rejected it, they wanted cold hard cash only. Dropped them off at Goodwill. Nice of you but those are some older brands. Always liked the Strata ball, never played balata balls based on price.

May need to conduct an Eguller deal to downsize.

Bravopilot

KCee Same here, I seldom lose a ball--when I do it is in 3s of course. However, I use to be a long hitter, at least above average, but not always straight, and losing a ball was common. Geezerdom is good for not losing golf balls.

KCee

Bravopilot Yeah I used to play my home course very infrequently years ago because it was so tight and I would always lose a LOT of balls. I joined 4 years thinking I better stock up on balls, but my now short, less crooked tee shots are usually playable.

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