I read on PGATour.com that “A Titleist ball was used by 153 out of the 156 players at the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship last week.”
That is Ridiculous!!
Personally, I’ve played Titleist my entire life. Don’t exactly know why, but I’ve tried other balls and Titleist has always had the “Tiffany’s” of golf ball.
Currently it is the ProV1 or ProV1x.
I’m currently playing the ProV1x, because I hit it about 8 yards further off the tee and I don’t spin the snot out of it. However, I’m slowly working through trying all of the “upper-tier” golf balls available, so that might change.
Any ideas on others I should try?
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As recommended by Maverick… I’m including a bit of explanation as to how I know I picked up about 8 yards off the tee.
To start. I’m a solid 3 handicap and played 4 years of college golf, so I’m not just your everyday weekend golfer.
I’ve been playing golf since I was 8 yrs old, and I’m currently 23.This spring, I decided that I wanted to try the new drivers out on the market. I was playing with a Ping ISI with 7.5 degrees of loft and a UST Profroce 65 gram stiff shaft and hit it 245 or so carry off the tee. So, I started playing around with new drivers. The owner at Oakhaven golf club in Delaware, Ohio gave me a Titleist 983K with the Adilia NV x-65 shaft in it to try. Well I started to hit the ball much higher and carry it further, approximately 10 yards.
I had heard the pros say that the proV1x spun less off the driver for those with higher swing speeds. So, I thought I’d give it a try. I had a dozen Slazenger Players balls that I got from a broker at Merrill Lynch and I also picked up a sleeve of ProV1x’s from the pro shop. I was amazed with the difference in ball flight. The Players ball would go out and just flutter out of the air, while the ProV1x would go out and then turn over and run. So not only was I carrying the ball nearly 8-10 yards further with the ProV1x, but when the ball hit the ground, it ran like it stole something.
I was a true skeptic about buying yards or the newest technology, but ask anyone I play with and they’ll agree that a small $500 investment in my golf game, matching the ball and club has added at least 20 yards off the tee.
Expressing confidence, Tiger said that he’s still ahead of Jack’s pace in winning majors. Tiger is 28 and has won 8 majors, although has gone 9 majors without winning one. Jack didn’t win his 8th major until age 30, and had gone 11 winless majors. Good point.
Tweet15-yea- old Sihwan Kim of Korea won the U.S. Junior Amateur at the famed Olympic Club in San Francisco. He defeated David Chung in match play, 1 up. Tiger still has the record for being the youngest winner of the event — he was 22 days younger than Kim when he won. Of course, Michelle Wie is still younger than Kim. Now that’s youth.
TweetCarlos Franco won the U.S. Bank tournament on Sunday. The Paraguayan golfer is known as the “anti-Vijay,” not because he doesn’t like Vijay, but because he never hits balls on the range — ever. He just shows up to the golf course and fires away. Unbelievable.
On a related note, I played 9 holes for the first time in 3 weeks, a layoff due in part to a recurring shoulder injury, which I hope not to aggravate. The Carlos Franco method worked for the first 2 holes. I parred the first, and then, after duck hooking my drive on the 2nd, hit one of the most amazing 3-irons from 210 yards out and in a squirrely lie in the rough. The ball ended up 15 feet from the hole. I left the birdie putt short, but was even after 2. My game went south, though, from all the rust. The steady drizzle didn’t help, either. But, unlike Carlos Franco, I’m the kind of golfer who loves the range. So not hitting for 3 weeks definitely hurt.