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36 minutes ago, blackngold_blood said:
Guess I might have wasted my $20 on the dozen Cut Grey I purchased to try out!
Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpyThe guys at txg just did some cut ball testing.
With all the issues that the site experienced I haven’t had a chance to look at the data but I’m going to guess that what wasn’t tested was quality of strike. Golfers with exact same ss but with a different contact point and/or club delivery (aoa, path, face,etc) are going to see different results
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8 minutes ago, TR1PTIK said:
So then high speed or low speed, high compression or low compression, all balls perform the same. What was the point of your previous statements??? Are you looking for answers or just trying to disprove some portion of the test that you don't fully agree with? I'm confused at this point...
Personal experience doesn’t agree with portion(s) of the test. The way a person drives the club is going to affect how a ball performs as us swing speed.
Lower compression balls in my experience perform better than higher compression balls for slower swing speeds and guys with higher spin rates. Vice versa for higher swing speeds and getting better performance from higher compression balls.
That goes for both distance and dispersion.
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1 minute ago, TR1PTIK said:
Perhaps the performance variables have more to do with changes in spin rates than golf ball compression ratings.
This would mirror what was stated in the blog about high speed/high spin players.
What I have seen and those I play with the several balls perform nearly identical. We have it different balls on the same hole in back to back swings and the balls end up in nearly the same spot.
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24 minutes ago, Thin2win said:
I think you might be thinking compression, not compressing. What they found, and I believe are saying is that we all swing fast enough to compress a golf ball, regardless of its compression rating. But those balls with higher compression ratings tend to go further. That would match you and your buddies findings with the Duo.
Two different things, similar words
I am talking both. Compression applies to the compressing if the ball. Softer compression balls make it easier to compress the ball on contact. While it’s hard to over compress a ball what I have seen is the lower compression balls perform worse than higher compression balls for higher ss players. And vice versa for slower swing speed players. One of the guys I played with regularly over the last 20+ years before his passing always played Prov1. He had a typical slice ball flight but it was also predicable and he played decent for the flight and lack of distance. When he switched to a star and chrome soft his spin reduced as did the amount of side spin.
I have also seen the spin reduction benefit a player. A friend who is a high ss guy and a scratch golfer also happens to be a high spin player. The avx ball improved his spin and his launch characteristics.
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23 minutes ago, THEZIPR23 said:
4. Don’t Worry About Compressing The Golf Ball
Let’s tackle one of the most common golf ball myths. Forget what you might have heard, you swing fast enough to compress the core of the golf ball.
Our testing showed that golf balls do not perform differently at different swing speeds – at least not to any significant degree. Balls that are fast at 115 MPH are fast at 85 MPH. The bottom line is that a short ball doesn’t become a long ball when swing speed decreases.
Launch and spin relationships don’t change much either. While there can be exceptions, a ball that’s low spin off the driver, is often low spin off a wedge. Speed doesn’t change that relationship either.
My experience shows it does. When being fit by Bridgestone spin and launch both changed when I went from the b330 rx and rxs to the s.
i along with a buddy of mine messed around with the duo balls a few years ago and they were too soft and went nowhere near the same as prov, b330 s for him and rx for me.
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43 minutes ago, jjfcpa said:
This may be the reason I find myself jumping from one ball to another... Snell MTB Black one day, then Vice Pro the next, and then back to the Tour RX. I'm a firm believer in playing one ball and one ball only. Definitely need to pick one and stay with it. At this point, it may be the Bridgestone Tour X or the Oncore Elixir. The value choice would be the Elixir.
I’m a huge fan of the elixir but I am a Prov1 fan and stick to that.
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5 minutes ago, jjfcpa said:
I find this kind of strange. I have 3 favorite balls... in no particular order.
Snell MTB Black
Vice Pro
Bridgestone Tour B RX
And all 3 balls fell into the Good category in their Performance Chart. Should I be looking for a ball better than "good"?
Personally I say yes. I loved the b330-rx and was fit into multiple times when Bridgestone did their in person fittings. The new version is not as good and lags behind both pro v balls and both tp5 balls.
the other two I have not played and I get the concept and people’s desire to play a lower cost tour level ball. If I was going that route I would play the oncore elixir.
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This is one of the reasons I’m against getting multiple fittings at multiple locations. Swings will vary from session to session, different monitors and possibly different settings on each. Balls between places aren’t the same.
my suggestion would be to look at your ball flight with each and the ball flight numbers from the fittings and determine which gave you a ball flight that you like to see bd which one maximized your carry and total distance. As well as what combo you liked the look/feel of.
Asking for people’s opinions on 4 different combos will get you various responses for each and those will usually be based on their opinions, biases and experiences which may be different than yours.
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4 minutes ago, GB13 said:Ahh that's right, I was going with releases on even years. I thought that was 2018 and the one Sluggo had was 2016.
I think some guys think they release a ball every year and start thinking even years. I have a box of the 2019 at home and haven’t looked to see what the lines look like yet. Also placed my order Saturday for the loyalty program
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6 hours ago, jayjay0808 said:
Yup seems to be a test ball from a tester pack they send out prior to releasing a new ball. The arrows remind me of the 2016 version.
Pro v comes out in odd years. This has the arrows of the 2015 version
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1 hour ago, GB13 said:
I guess we are just going to have to agree to disagree here. If I had a 15 yard cut/slice that was a consistent fairway finder, I'd take it.
Yup because I will take both a fairway plus the added yardage from better ball flight characteristics
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2 hours ago, GB13 said:
But if it's consistent, why does it matter? Bubba hits huuuge slices, but he knows they'll come back and hit the fairway. It doesn't really matter how much movement there is if it's controlled. And it sounds like a big hook is the miss here, and this ball flight is taking it out of play.
While he may be getting 280 out of it the ball flight characteristics aren’t optimal and a change in weather would have an impact on the ball. Also it may be consistent for that round or a couple rounds but a change in face and/or path could be trouble.
1) bubba is a pro and has tremendous hand eye coordination and club face control compared to amateurs including internet ones. 2) bubba hits a shot that he needs/sees at the moment so it can be a small movement or a big one but it’s one he practices 3) when bubba misses its normally a big miss
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1 hour ago, PMookie said:
Hmmm. Then your definition definitely isn’t the same as Pros. A slice is uncontrolled, and doesn’t carry 280.........................
Neither does a hook. I’ll stick with how the Pros define it. You’re welcome to have your own definition. Enjoy!
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I know lots of weekend hackers that control a slice to come back to the fairway.
Theres not a pro I know of that consider 15+ yards of movement either direction a fade or draw. They prefer 3-5 at the most.
But like with all things golf there’s lots of ways to skin the cat and play this game at an enjoyable level
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6 hours ago, PMookie said:
Well, if you saw the holes that are lined with trees, fairways about 30 yards wide, maybe you’d think otherwise. I think I know the difference between a fade and a slice, thank you.
Sheesh.
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6 hours ago, PMookie said:
Exactly! And there wasn’t OB, by the way......
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro30 yard wide fairways, aiming off the fairway and ball moving to the middle is 15+ yards. That’s not a fade imo and vice versa for draws.
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4 hours ago, PMookie said:
I played yesterday in Memphis and after two holes with the TS3, I learned I’d be playing the round with a fade. I started aiming left of the fairway and the balls were landing dead-center! Once I started this, I finished the round with that aim and I only missed two more fairways the rest of the way. Aiming OB, or into trees was nerve-wracking at the start, but it worked. I hit a couple of power-fade bombs for the first time in my life! Fun!
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ProIf you are aiming that far left and getting the ball to end up in the fairway you are using the term power fade very loosely. Most would call that a slice
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On 4/8/2019 at 10:24 AM, LoganT said:
$2000 is a little steep! Or am I crazy?
Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpyNope. Cheaper than pxg and on par with miura. Plus they are limited release and can’t be bought other than 3-p with the exact specs of tiger. The design process Tm has gone thru to get tiger what he wants in his irons from looks, feel, launch is pretty interesting. They have several videos up on their YouTube channel about it.
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Yes. Imo tiger is already the goat. Him passing jack stops all the debate in its tracks. Also puts him a few clear of Snead.
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April thru early June is tough for me. I’m a tentative in
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Now that weather is breaking I’ve been able to get out and work on the shallowing of the club from my lesson a couple weeks ago. Things are starting to go good with short irons I think
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1 hour ago, Kor.A.Door said:
I will try to answer the questions asked, hopefully I don’t miss any. Back in January we joined a gym. You know typical New Years stuff. We were going to the gym 4 days. I am 265lbs. 6’4”, so I don’t look “overweight”, but I am. I am really looking for this to be a change for long term, and I really don’t want to watch the scale. After going to the gym for almost 3 months I feel better and stronger, but I just don’t see it. I stepped on the scale and boom, I had gained about 5 lbs. then the feeling of doubt enters and frustration sets in. I felt like I needed to change my “diet”, not go on a diet, just change how I eat, track it better, also change up my workout routine. I would like to lose some weight, but I don’t have to lose 50 lbs to meet a goal.
I am currently keeping track of my caloric intake, and I am doing more weight training. I am still doing some cardio, but adding the weight training instead of just doing more cardio. So I’ve found a workout routine that is for beginner training that I will do for a month or so, then I will move into an intermediate training program. I am really trying to do healthier things, but it really gets hard when you can’t see visible results. Doing something is better than doing nothing. I am going to keep at it, and one day I will see the results of the work I put in.
That’s great that you are tracking and weight lifting is good to help with the weight loss as it’s energy spent as is the cardio.
Doing random weigh ins will give you inconsistent results because bodyweight can fluctuate 1-2% up or down from day to day. Weighing yourself every day first thing in the morning after using the bathroom and as close to the same time wearing the same thing and taking the average each week will show you really what’s going on.
As was mentioned earlier unless you are in a caloric deficit you aren’t going to lose weight. The key number to focus on is your TDEE. Whatever that number is will be your maintenance calories. Eating below that number will put you in a deficit. High protein intake will help with the fat loss and not going to low in fat (help keep hormones from going haywire). There are several algorithms to help determine your tdee, if not wanting to figure all that out using iifym.com macro calculator is probably the most accurate one around the webs. They also have a plan to help you on the path and iirc it’s about $100. There’s avatar nutrition and they charge $15/month and with weekly weigh ins will adjust your macros each week as necessary.
Another great resource is fat loss forever by Layne Norton.
the biggest way to make it a success long term is find the type of eating that fits your lifestyle, you can follow and stick to long term and once you reach your goal slowly work your way back to maintenance.
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12 minutes ago, revkev said:
I really like this - I’m holding steady at 165 after taking 9 months to loose the 45 lbs that got me there. The first two months I lost 15 lbs. The loss slowed after that.
I’m still in the process of reshaping my body even if I’m not loosing weight. I find that I need goals to keep the weight off and also experiment with what I can and can’t eat.
It’s a rest of my life process but I’m very happy with where I’m at.
Sent from my iPhone using MyGolfSpyThe bolded is why I hate the word diet. Diets fail because 1) they are too restrictive (think no carbs, clean food, etc) 2) there’s a goal weight to get to and it’s not always easy but then there’s no plan on how to keep the weight off (something I struggled with after my weight cut in 2016-2017) and therefore people gain it all back and many times more than they lost.
its a lifestyle choice and when done right keeping the weight off.
Can you explain more on the “what I can and can’t eat”? I ask because I’m a firm believe in macro counting and calories in vs calories out and therefore there is no food off limits
- MattF, mr.hicksta and MaxEntropy
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19 hours ago, Kor.A.Door said:
Struggling here. I’m not seeing positive results, and it really gets frustrating, how can I work out, cut out pop, reduce food intake, reduce sugar, yet still gain weight. I have started a new work out routine, and I have started a new food plan change. Hopefully I will start to see some better results with these new plans.
Weight loss or gain is about calories in vs calories out or as some say energy expenditure. So if you are gaining weight then you aren’t truly in a caloric deficit. There are 3 phases to “dieting” (hate that word btw). There’s maintenance which is self explanatory. There’s caloric deficit which is how one loses weight...eating less than ones maintenance calories. Weight gain eating more calories than needed to maintain.
weight loss is as much about the weight loss as it is about keeping it off long term.
what is your current caloric intake? What type of weight loss plan are you using? What’s your workout routine (type of weight training and cardio and how many days and for how long each session?)
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I saw that and get that but the way a player hits the ball is going to have an impact on results that could be different than what’s in the test. It’s good info but imo not the end all be all to what ball performs better
Agree it’s a good amount of info and helps show what balls could perform but imo results are going to vary even at same ss because of contact/strike.
Or are doubting the results because it doesn’t validate their choice.