Reading the ball test has got me thinking, I was playing Bridgestones last year when I was playing my best and then moved away from them but I’m not entirely sure why. I have some left I’m gonna throw in my bag and see if I can get that vibe back.
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This test confirmed that the Pro V1 is good for me. It has good distance and spin, and feels great around the greens. And most importantly, people lose them everywhere so I can find them and play the same ball without paying for them.
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Yeah, my goal is to get a ball I like and stick with it… honestly, the MTB-X served me well a few years back, so I’m excited to see how they do… I also picked up a dozen Srixon z-stars to try out, as they seem to have the same characteristics from the test…
I might have to figure out how to hit driver on the simulator at my club and see my numbers… I hit the net on my follow through and don’t want to get into the habit of shortening my finish… but it would be nice to test these things.
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Impressive! How much do you think it matters to your overall score?
If i knew it would reduce my handicap by 2, I would totally spend $4 per ball.
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I can’t really put an exact value on what playing the right ball can do, but there’s a ton of value in trusting your ball to do what you expect it to do. If you expect a ball to hop and stop from 120 and in and it delivers that on a good strike, then that’s worth the cost to me.
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You going to start your kid off with prov1 or prov1x?
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He’s already hitting the less than perfect ProV1s into the net. Gonna be spoiled with that feel. I’m screwed.
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It could be worse. He could be my son. U r scratch. Your kid will be scratch. My kid will never be better than 15.
When i ask him if he wants to play, his answer is always “why would i EVER do anything that makes you so frustrated?”
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I thought the whole point of this forum is that this is a completely made up expectation.
#middle of the green
Man I get the frustration aspect of golf. I’m pretty fiery at times, but do you think that 15 could be a 9 or 10 if you let go of a bad swing? It was shocking what letting one bad swing only be one bad swing did for my golf game. That’s worth more to your hdcp than any $4 ball.
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Played my first round with the Srixon Z-Star… they seem to fit my swing profile on the test, and I needed some balls (I have Snell’s on order, they aren’t here yet).
It’s a fine ball. I wasn’t swinging my best and it seemed to want to stay in bounds, so that’s a huge plus for me… I caught one drive and felt like it didn’t go as far as I expected, but it was into the wind and it wasn’t significantly shorter than where I put good drives (and it was straighter)…
Playing with them again on Friday (and maybe tomorrow), so we will see how it goes.
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That 2 hdcp needs to follow Lou Stagner on Twitter and get some proximity to the hole perspective.
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I’m a nice guy, generically, but if I were playing a match against that guy… I’d “Good Tempo” him into a rage and watch his vanity 2 cap implode to shoot a 90 and close him out on the 14th hole.
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I take the other approach. I offer them lots of tips. Yes yes you shot birdie and i got a triple but did you know you didnt shift your weight forward on that swing? I can totally fix you in five minutes after this round.
Guarantees I live rent free in his head the rest of the round.
My next trick will be to take my groove it and start cleaning their clubs for them.
Dont mess with high handicaps. You guys dont want any of this heat.
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I get plenty of “nice shot” comments from higher handicap playing partners on shots I didn’t find to be particularly nice. My response is “thanks” and I can’t understand the mindset of anyone who would think any deeper than that on it.
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It seems to me that selecting our golf ball can use the se method that we use to select targets on the course. What shot/ball gives us the most predictable pattern?
With so many variables (temp, humidity, wind, dry/wet/dew, fw height, rough height, green foundation, green slope, ground strike, face strike, trajectory, amount of curve), it seems it would be hard to select a ball without observing A LOT of golf shots with a specific ball before really identifying a pattern. Especially considering our games are able to change significantly from day to day.
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Screw the ball, I want the PXG irons as the Mid speed 8 iron goes a club farther than mine!
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haha, the 87 mph 8 iron was hitting balls 200 yards… I swing in the 90s with an 8 iron and hit it 170.
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Moving to Scottsdale would probably help as well.
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