I much preferred hitting the premium ball as it felt much softer and easier to control, even with my limited game. A good golfer will gain a big advantage with a premium ball on bunker shots, but given the relative skill levels of most mid handicap players out of sand (for many just getting it out and finding the green is seen as success), it probably doesn’t make too much difference which ball you are using. If you look at almost all the top players at impact, their shoulders would probably be 15-30 degrees left of the target and the hips will be anything from 30-60 degrees leftwards. Since retiring he has become a vice president of the Chock Full O'Nuts Company of New York, and he is on the staff of Look Magazine. A two piece ball is going to roll more so you want to land it shorter. It came out shorter than where I wanted it to but it rolled on nicely. With a two piece distance ball like the Slazenger V100, you aren’t going to get any spin or control so you adapt; land it shorter and watch it roll. With a premium ball you can land it closer to the hole knowing that it will check on the first couple of bounces and then roll slowly to the hole.

You can fly it closer to the pin and try to spin it with a premium, urethane covered ball, but you can still get it close with the two-piece ball. The Slazenger balls landed in a similar spot but didn’t stop as quickly and therefore ran up closer to the hole. Disregarding the bad shots and only counting the three best ones, the total combined distance away from the hole for the Slazenger balls was 36 feet, with the closest being six feet away. Of course when you do hit one perfectly you’re going to wish you had a premium ball giving you that lovely back spin, but if we’re playing the percentages then for average golfers there isn’t going to be much difference when it comes to distance from the hole. There’s a big difference here but it doesn’t necessarily lead to lower scores. Does this translate to lower scores for average golfers? Most mid-handicap golfers are not going to be hitting their number every time and sometimes that bit of extra run that you get due to a lack of spin will help. He took the idea of practice to an extraordinary level for golfers of his era.

To make practice more interesting I’ll often put different golf balls up against each other in putting challenges and, hand on heart, I can honestly say that I don’t hole more putts with a more expensive ball than I do with those novelty ones that non-golfing family members give you as Christmas gifts. I’ll make a confession here. I’ll tee off with that and then replace it with a premium ball to hit my approach. Often when I play, if I’m struggling with my driver and running the risk of losing balls in the trees, I’ll just reach into the bag and grab the Top Flite or Pinnacle Gold that I found in the rough a few holes before. The balls will perform in completely different ways due to the spin factor. Similar to chipping in some ways. With chipping especially it is just as easy to get close with the cheap ball as it is to do it with the ProV1, but you will need to hit the shot in a different way. The chipping results were very similar. This results in the longest drives. I was struggling to hit my usual 150 carry so these results are definitely more about me than the quality of the balls, but I do think this is useful information.

However, if my distance had been 90 yards the results would have been reversed. Those things are like little rocks, but if you put a good stroke on it they have as much chance of going in as the best TaylorMade golf balls. For the record, the closest ball to the hole on this test was a Slazenger but it was not a particularly good shot. I chipped in once with the Slazenger and almost holed a couple with the Titleist. The Slazenger did not sit down as quickly and rolled several feet before stopping. With the Titleist the total distance was 52 feet. Without a doubt, massage is most enjoyable if you can get somebody else to massage your feet for you. So with the premium ball you might be able to get it close. You can get a premium ball to check really quickly and you therefore have much better control of the shot. The big advantage a premium ball has is when you don’t have much green to work with or if you’ve short sided yourself, perhaps needing to flop one up and over a bunker. Tee Marker. Specifically for Golf but these balls are awesome for golf days where the sponsor can have a special first tee or the whole 18 tees.