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7th September 2022 09:35 AM
#1
Senior Member
Touring Pro (PGA)
Best colour golf ball to see???
So one of my big issues is finding my ball on the course, particularly off the fairway (my normal drive result). Probably has something to do with my incredibly sorry attention span, and lack of observance! I'm seeing that there's a lot more options on ball colours these days, and is there one that's easier to keep track of and see on the course than standard white?
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7th September 2022 09:47 AM
#2
Senior Member
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IMO Vision Golf ball high vis yellow is the best hands down, especially in Toowoomba where the golf course is a much darker green and a lot of shade. These balls also glow in the dark.
Most other coloured golf balls are dull and only surface painted, i dont reckon they are any brighter than a white ball. Some of the colours out there are shocking, like red and blue. cant see them for crap - bright pink seems ok at first but if playing somewhere dry like Gatton, cant see it amongst brown leaves. Gave a box to mum and she lost them all real quick.
But it depends on what goggles you wear too - I have an amber/brown lens which is the best for golf and that does dull the yellow ball, from a distance it looks white, often leading me to ask "anyone see my ball" to the astonishment of the fellow golfers, given its the bright yellow one in middle of the fairway. Looked white to me.
If you are wearing a green lens, then yellow/green ball is fine. If you are wearing grey lens, thats perfect for most colours, but you would be a goose because grey lens flattens contours and diminishes contrast, so no coloured ball is going to help much with your golf.
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7th September 2022 10:16 AM
#3
Senior Member
Touring Pro (PGA)
Vision, as in the vision ones that popped up years ago, and some of us tried? Didn't know they were still around?
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7th September 2022 10:55 AM
#4
Senior Member
Order of Merit winner
Originally Posted by
markTHEblake
IMO Vision Golf ball high vis yellow is the best hands down, especially in Toowoomba where the golf course is a much darker green and a lot of shade. These balls also glow in the dark..
To be fair, you've always had a strong bias towards the yellow over the white Mark.
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7th September 2022 11:16 AM
#5
Senior Member
Golf Hall of Fame Inductee
Originally Posted by
Webster
To be fair, you've always had a strong bias towards the yellow over the white Mark.
Yuck... yellow is too north (red) for me
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7th September 2022 01:15 PM
#6
Senior Member
Touring Pro (Nationwide Tour)
I like yellow balls, although usually play white. Bright matte balls can be quite good too - stay away from greens/blues/etc, but yellow/pink/orange works. The yellow and orange or red q-star tours can be very easy to track in the air.
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7th September 2022 06:53 PM
#7
Senior Member
Touring Pro (Nationwide Tour)
Originally Posted by
BobsYourUncle
I like yellow balls, although usually play white. Bright matte balls can be quite good too - stay away from greens/blues/etc, but yellow/pink/orange works. The yellow and orange or red q-star tours can be very easy to track in the air.
Agree with comment about blue, I bought some of the Qstar Tour in yellow and blue (as support for a mate from Ukraine) which turned out to be hard to find even on the fairway if the blue side is up.
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7th September 2022 09:29 PM
#8
Senior Member
Major Winner
Weirdly I reckon bright green are very easy to see
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7th September 2022 10:48 PM
#9
Admin Team
Golf Hall of Fame Inductee
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8th September 2022 03:45 AM
#10
Senior Member
Grand Slam Winner
Also a good colour for ball finding labs.
Want some free golf balls? Maybe you should consider getting a dog. If it’s anything like Gabby the yellow lab, you’ll never pay for a sleeve again.
Gabby is the loyal pet to 82-year-old Arnie Smith, according to a piece in the Standard-Examiner. The pair take frequent walks at Mt. Ogden Golf Course in Ogden, Utah, during which the seven-year-old dog lunges into the woods and digs out long-lost balls from wayward shots.
Gabby gets a treat from her owner for each ball she uncovers, and typically she will find 30-40 balls per walk. Over the years, Gabby has found “a couple thousand” balls in all.
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8th September 2022 05:45 AM
#11
Member
Touring Pro (Aust PGA)
White or yellow I find the easiest to see, with the yellow probably standing out a bit more. I just prefer playing a white ball personally.
Red are absolutely horrid, as are blue, green and those srixon ones that look like the old half taped tennis balls.
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9th September 2022 09:29 AM
#12
Senior Member
Major Winner
Yellow is a shit load easier to find in the rough...
which is where i seem to be a lot these days...
but every bird wants to steal it.
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9th September 2022 10:11 AM
#13
Senior Member
Golf Hall of Fame Inductee
Only in NSW. Qld crows only interestee in undoing golf bag zippers to get the sandwich out.
But... i playee MQ link earlier this year. Crow nicked my yellow ball on 3rd and white ball on 14th. As there were 3 balls on the green close together but only interested in mine, i am guessing the cunning basterd knew I switched colours to fool him.
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10th September 2022 11:48 AM
#14
Moderator
Touring Pro (PGA)
Another vote for Vision UV yellow balls. The old blokes in my early birds group always joked about being able to see my ball from 2 fairways away, but that was often a requirement!
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11th September 2022 08:28 PM
#15
Senior Member
Touring Pro (Japanese Tour)
I am struggling with my eye site, thinking of switching to yellow. I couldn't see my ball landing today, I just got a line and started walking
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11th September 2022 08:46 PM
#16
Senior Member
Golf Hall of Fame Inductee
Joe..suggest you see an optometrist. IMO a differnt colour ball aint gonna help you see it land.
If you dont wear corrective lenses already and confirm you dont need them, them wearing tinted glasses can make the world of difference. Hint: brown/amber will improve clarity.
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12th September 2022 01:02 PM
#17
Senior Member
Touring Pro (Japanese Tour)
Originally Posted by
markTHEblake
Joe..suggest you see an optometrist. IMO a differnt colour ball aint gonna help you see it land.
If you dont wear corrective lenses already and confirm you dont need them, them wearing tinted glasses can make the world of difference. Hint: brown/amber will improve clarity.
Already wearing reading glasses, not yet into full time optics. Will give the tinted lenses a go, cheers.
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12th September 2022 06:31 PM
#18
Member
Touring Pro (Von Nida Tour)
It’s not your reading vision that’s suspect Joe. Sounds like a bit of short-sightedness might have crept up on you.
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