Some interesting views from Dean Snell.
https://mygolfspy.com/news-opinion/d...ball-rollback/
such as who is going to pay for costs of developing the rolled back ball, certainly there is next to no consumer market for it.
The OEMs have been making proto balls forever, including a range of them specifically for testing by the USGA & R&A over the years. They’re already spending that same money on R&D. I get that it would add cost for a DTC manufacturer like Snell but no pro is going to play his balls anyway so it’s a non issue for him.
Cinderella story, out of nowhere, former greenskeeper, now about to become a Masters champion..... It looks like a mirac.. It's in the hole! It's in the hole!
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TM V-Steel 16.5* w Speeder 57s at 3 wood length
Ping G10 21* Hybrid Reg
Ping i3+ 4-W CS Lite S
Ping Tour 54* and 60* (ground) CS Lite S
SC Pro Platinum Mid Sur Counterbalanced
Ping Hoofer Vantage
NB 574 Greens (yes, no more Crocs)
Golflucky
Blakey, Titleist make at least 7 different balls for their tour players which aren’t available to the general public. U reckon they can’t afford to make another one?
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Lajosi Custum Flow Neck putter *Titty Pro V1X ball.
They’d be allocating budget for the alternative prototype designs already and would no doubt have a marketing strategy to protect the current product by differentiating it from the “tour ball”.
The flip side to that question would be who should be paying for the works to extend gold courses over the last 10-15 years? Certainly wasn’t the manufacturer.
This is long overdue, IMO.
My only grievance is that they are not making it across the board... like, how can they not understand how far a large number of club golfers are hitting the ball nowadays?
I have been a member at my club for ~25 years, and in this time we have built ~16 new tee boxes to add length to the course. It's just not sustainable.
Why not just take away the dimples?
Ping G10 Project X S
TM V-Steel 16.5* w Speeder 57s at 3 wood length
Ping G10 21* Hybrid Reg
Ping i3+ 4-W CS Lite S
Ping Tour 54* and 60* (ground) CS Lite S
SC Pro Platinum Mid Sur Counterbalanced
Ping Hoofer Vantage
NB 574 Greens (yes, no more Crocs)
Golflucky
PGA Tour says no.
I listened to Mike Clayton on the McKellen podcast today. He was scathing in his assessment of the PGAs handling of the whole thing. Pandering to titleist and a handful of players. Disregarding the architecture and design of courses.
His suggestion was interesting, if the pga don't want it fine... roll back the shit out ta the ball for all non pga majors and events. Like 20% kinda roll back.
Now that's what I would like to see. Rory's 2 iron at renessaince was the shot of the year so far. Driver/wedge golf is so boring.
Happiness is a long walk with a putter.
If one thing has been clear of late is that the PGA isn't the be all and end all of golf.
So if the roll back happens, they'll accept it in some way or another. Possibly some events before majors etc
The biggest factor would be cost. Cost to R&A to develop and produce the ball or cost to manufacturers to do the same and how that's passed on to consumers to cover it.
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It’s a non issue. They already make the balls. They’ve made lots of proto balls for the governing bodies to test over time too, for this exact purpose. And all the manufacturers will be jizzing themselves over a chance to be the ones making the official Masters tournament ball.
I kind of love that the pampered f**ks on the PGAT have opted out. It further reinforces that only 4 tournaments a year matter and it’ll be amazing to watch the pros adapt to a new ball at those tournaments, or like Rory as said, play the model ball year round on tour in spite of big Jay’s self serving announcement.
Cinderella story, out of nowhere, former greenskeeper, now about to become a Masters champion..... It looks like a mirac.. It's in the hole! It's in the hole!
Bump.
Looks like they’re announcing next week it’s being rolled back for everyone. Congratulations Titleist & Taylormade, your pontificating about everyone needing the play the same equipment really paid off!
Cinderella story, out of nowhere, former greenskeeper, now about to become a Masters champion..... It looks like a mirac.. It's in the hole! It's in the hole!
Will be interesting how they implement this. There are so many "current" balls in the wild, it will be very hard to enforce any ball rollback in anything other than top-level pro/amateur competition for a while I'd think. That said, from what I've read, the proposed new ball won't actually perform that differently unless you're hitting 300+ bombs anyway. Interesting times.
This is devastating. I’m going to lose 4.5 metres with my driver. Looks like the long par 3s really are 2 shot holes.
I stand by my vote.
dunno.
Desert Golfer
FFS! All of my work in the gym and with speed sticks wasted!
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