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Picking a ball really depends on a few things. One the frequency you lose balls, two your bank balance and three how good you are.

When i started like many i just played anything i found ranging from Top Flite balls to a shiny NXT Tour i gleefully found. As i got lower i started to pick one ball and play with it for a while around about £6-10 for 12 as you'll probably still be losing 1-2 a round. When your comfortable i'd chose something like a Titlest PTS Solo or as above a Srixon AD333. Be careful of getting a really good ball when your still mi****ting a fair few shots as this is how scuff marks are made and you'll ruin your beautiful shiny balls.

When you down to single figures or low teens and and not losing many balls then get onto the 3(sometimes even 4) peice balls. These will give you a fair bit more feel and spin around the greens, but at a price :)

I'm currently playing with the 2008 model Bridgestone B330 Tour balls. £18 for 12, the 2009 model is £30+.
 
roid said:
Picking a ball really depends on a few things. One the frequency you lose balls, two your bank balance and three how good you are.
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1. Quite often when not on the local 250 max yard holes, maybe 2-3 a round at the moment on a more "adventurous course"

2. Low

3. Lower than #2 :)

Just to give you an idea! ;)
 
One thing i have found that is useful for getting premium quality balls is that at my local 9-holer they have a basket of balls on the counter for 50p each. I usually have a quick mid-week round up there and always have a root through the box before starting as they go golf ball 'hunting' on the monday. I usually pick up around 8-10 good quality ProV1's for 50p each, i then keep them until i have enough decent quality balls that i get a mate to buy me a dozen Nike One Tours and i let him have 2-3 dozen ProV1's. Bargain-tastic!
 
I got a tub of lake balls and found quite a few pro v1s in there. Just bought a solitary sleeve of AD333s as the last ball (Nike Power Distance) has lasted three rounds without loss.

Didn't get a chance to play with them, but they felt softish and have a line on them to line up your puts :)
 
TimBrad said:
1. Quite often when not on the local 250 max yard holes, maybe 2-3 a round at the moment on a more "adventurous course"

2. Low

3. Lower than #2 :)

Just to give you an idea! ;)
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Well to get you started nice and steady i'd get yourself a nice big bargain bag. Something like mixed lake balls at £20 for 50 (somewhere like decathlon does them i think), works out about 40p a ball (and 16 weeks worth if you place once a week) which isn't all that bad; its just like adding another £1 ish onto the green fee for that day and your set. In the bag you'll get a whole range of different brands and models; you might get lucky and get a few nice expensive balls like a Srixon Z star or a Pro V1 but mainly you'll get a set of nice average balls that will suit you perfectly.
 
I have played with most balls, but find that the srixxons and Titliest are the better balls for control around the green.
I'm playing Taylor Made Noodle balls at the moment and they are pretty good.

I'm going back to the AD333's though when I've exhausted the Noodles.
 
I play with a Top Flite glove, think its the XL glove, only really bought it as it was really cheap and its turned out as the best glove ive used. Also tried a Srixon glove and a few others but the Top Flite just feels more fitted feel as though my grip is much more solid with that on!
 
Receieved my Golden Bear HT 100 Driver this morning, actually 5 mins before I left for the range! :D

Getting about 200-220 max in the range so far, but has such a noise to it! Getting along with it very well, although still vering to the right on ~75% of shots!
 
Gear review:

Club: Cobra Baffler resuce, 20deg stiff shaft.
My Hcp: 18

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Bought this as a rescue for the rough, an alternate to my fairway wood and a go to club off the tee.

Off the tee:
As i walk to the par 4 286yd 4th, with a strong wind behind the driver would be too much, perfect time to try my new baffler. Tee'd it up and put a steady but strongish swing on it. Ball flies off the clubface nicely and goes flying down the fairway. Carrying around 250ish and bounced up to the front edge of the green. Impressed, hell yeah. Full of my new found confindence i tee it up on the 5th and find another gem and on the short stuff again.

As a rescue:
My god! just chucked a ball down 200yards from the green into the light rough, set up nicely and swung away. Poor swing and a scuttler along the fairway. Threw another down and had another go. The ball flew away absolutly flush and found itself at the edge of the green.

From the fairway:
Had tired loads before i tried it off the fairway. Couldnt put a good swing on it and kept toe ending them.

Overall first impression is that its a very very good rescue/utility club well worth the £100 paid. Would recommend it to anyone. Looks good, sits well at set up and performs well. Rating 9/10
 
There have been a few tests on lake balls and depending on how long they have been down there they can lose anything from 0 to 30yds depending on the length/iron they are hit with. However, these tests are usually carried out by either ball manufacturers or by golf magazines (who accept huge advertising dollars from those companies) so they could hardly be called impartial (an example of this was a recent golf mag tested balls, now call me sceptical but, there was a definite correlation between the amount of advertising space a company had purchased in that magazine as to where their balls finished on the test, conincidence..........).

I can believe there is some performance degradation if a ball has either been sat under a ton of water for ages or re-finished with a new coating, but would your average golfer (16-18hcp) be able to say that a lake ball cost him 4 out of the 16 shots a round over scratch, or was it more likely mis-hits, bad putts etc? probably not. It may be a differen't kettle of fish for the single figure golfer where being a few yards short could affect the scoring.
 
I don't think Decathlon are a competitor, but they for re-finished pro v1s for £10 :)

I bought a sleeve of AD333 and they have a nice feel when putting :)
 
The entry fee was £16 per team(2), so the prize pool would be dependant on entries i'd imagine. As a reference, my playing partner and i won £50 each for coming third in the last 4BBB we played in, the £50 is in the form of a voucher to be spent in the pro shop.
Entry requirements were members only, 24max handicap.
 
Anyone that has had lessons any tips for slicing, i must have tried pretty much everything and still cant completely get rid of it!
 
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