Oddly enough, the Pro V1 was right on the mark. According to ProCheck, however, both were a little too soft for me (4 ProCheck bars). I’ve been playing well with both, which is why I turned away from my previous favorite - Pro V1. With this new-found knowledge, I went to my go-to balls - Bridgestone Tour B-RX and Srixon Q-Star. That puts me in the medium range, which will show up as 5 ProCheck bars. For me, it’s about 230 yards in the air and around 100 mph. How far does your driver carry? Or, what’s your driver swing speed? If you can answer either of these, then you can find the corresponding compression that’s right for you. Simply insert a ball, pull the trigger, hit the release (R) button and read the results - ranging from “very soft” to “very firm.” This handled device is quick and easy to use. You can now check the compression of any ball in your bag with ProCheck. After all, you will not reap the rewards if the compression (hardness) of the ball doesn’t match your swing speed. If you fall into both categories - trunk and better golf balls - you may want to check the compression of your bullets to make sure you’re not firing blanks during your next game. How many people in your foursome swear by their Pro V1s, Chrome Softs, B330s, Q-Stars, etc.? While two-piece golf balls are remarkably resilient, their three- and four-piece counterparts are much more susceptible to extreme heat (and cold). It doesn’t take a scorcher of a day for the temperature of your trunk to climb to over 150 degrees. That’s great news, unless you’re one of the many golfers who keep their clubs in the truck of the car for convenience. Wedges: Ping Glide 4.Studies have shown that golf balls stored under “normal” conditions can maintain performance levels for years. Irons 3-PW: Ping i525, True Temper Dynamic Gold 105 R300 shafts Hybrid: Ping G425 17˚, Mitsubishi Tensei CK Pro Orange 80 S shaft Jezz can be contacted via Twitter - is currently playing.ĭriver: Ping G425 LST 10.5˚ (draw setting), Mitsubishi Tensei AV Orange 55 S shaftģ wood: Ping G425 Max 15˚ (set to flat +1), Mitsubishi Tensei AV Orange 65 S shaft He has now played well over 950 golf courses worldwide in 35 countries, right across the spectrum from the humblest of nine-holers in the Scottish Highlands to the very grandest of international golf resorts, but put him on a links course anywhere and he will be blissfully content. He is a senior panelist for Golf Monthly's Top 100 UK & Ireland Course Rankings and has played all of the Top 100 plus 91 of the Next 100, making him well-qualified when it comes to assessing and comparing our premier golf courses. He also edits The Golf Club Secretary Newsletter, a highly regarded trade publication for golf club secretaries and managers, and has authored or co-authored three books and written for a number of national papers including The Telegraph and The Independent. He is now a freelance journalist writing mainly for Golf Monthly across the whole spectrum from courses and Rules to equipment and instruction. Jeremy Ellwood has worked in the golf industry since 1993 and for Golf Monthly since 2002 when he started out as equipment editor. And if the golf ball itself gets very cold, this can also affect the characteristics of its materials resulting in lower initial velocity off the clubface. Golf balls don’t go quite as far in the cold because the air is denser, which increases lift and drag so they tend to fly slightly higher and a little shorter. In addition to the relationship between ideal compression and swing speed, there is also a school of thought that some golfers might be able to hit low-compression balls a little further than firmer balls in cold weather, and some of our recommended best golf balls for cold weather are, indeed, low-compression models. In other words, it will be a better distance option for those with sub-tour swing speeds who still want to reap all the other performance benefits of a tour-calibre ball. The Z Star Diamond, as played by Brooks Koepka, has a compression rating of 102 and is designed for driver swing speeds of 90+mph the Q-Star Tour has a compression rating of 72 and is designed for driver swing speeds of 75+mph, but is otherwise engineered for tour-level performance. As an example, Srixon launched two ball models in early 2022 – the new Z Star Diamond and a new Q-Star Tour model.
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