When life WON'T give you lemons...make your own

[Bobbers]

I like to use yellow golf balls.  Don't ask me why, I don't think I could tell you.  But I do.  Which for the past couple of years has been a source of frustration due, I'd guess, to the ongoing "supply chain issues".  Take a look at most Golf Galaxy locations for the Maxfli Tour.   Load of white balls, few if any yellow ones.  Want to buy the bargain 4 dozen?  As long as  you want them in white you're good.  Yellow?  Not so much.

Oncore has updated the Elixir.  In white.  They won't even answer emails asking if/when a yellow version might  come available.

Snell?  Routinely sold out of the yellow colored balls.

I decided to make my own.

Easy as pie.

Four cups of water in a plastic pitcher in the microwave for 6 minutes.  Not quite at a boil but hot enough.  Add in a 7 ounce bottle of Rit's "Dye More" Daffodil product.  Add, gently so as not to get splashes of dye (I did this outside "just in case") a dozen golf balls.  Let 'em sit for as long as you like, the longer they sit the deeper the color.  Remove from the solution with a slotted spoon, place in some warm and soapy water for a minute, rinse, dry, and voila.

Total cost was $5 for the bottle of dye, $4 at the dollar store for the slotted spoon, a baking tin to use for the wash/rinse, and the 8 inch high "pitcher" to hold the water/dye/golf balls.

The results:

[fozcycle]

Okay Bobbers, the oncore’s look great. Now go out and play them. We want to see them after, 9 holes, after 18 holes.  Will the yellow hold up?

[Bobbers]

31 minutes ago, fozcycle said:

Okay Bobbers, the oncore’s look great. Now go out and play them. We want to see them after, 9 holes, after 18 holes.  Will the yellow hold up?

I'll be more than happy to update as they're played.  We shall see what we shall see.  My guess is that bunker shots may wound their pride a bit but normal shots shouldn't have much, if any detrimental effect.  Time will tell if this experiment ends up in the "yay!" column or the "what the hell was I thinking?!?" column.

[fozcycle]

Would be interesting to note if there is any weight difference after the dye job.

[tony@CIC]

5 hours ago, Bobbers said:

I like to use yellow golf balls.  Don't ask me why, I don't think I could tell you.  But I do.  Which for the past couple of years has been a source of frustration due, I'd guess, to the ongoing "supply chain issues".  Take a look at most Golf Galaxy locations for the Maxfli Tour.   Load of white balls, few if any yellow ones.  Want to buy the bargain 4 dozen?  As long as  you want them in white you're good.  Yellow?  Not so much.

Oncore has updated the Elixir.  In white.  They won't even answer emails asking if/when a yellow version might  come available.

Snell?  Routinely sold out of the yellow colored balls.

I decided to make my own.

Easy as pie.

Four cups of water in a plastic pitcher in the microwave for 6 minutes.  Not quite at a boil but hot enough.  Add in a 7 ounce bottle of Rit's "Dye More" Daffodil product.  Add, gently so as not to get splashes of dye (I did this outside "just in case") a dozen golf balls.  Let 'em sit for as long as you like, the longer they sit the deeper the color.  Remove from the solution with a slotted spoon, place in some warm and soapy water for a minute, rinse, dry, and voila.

Total cost was $5 for the bottle of dye, $4 at the dollar store for the slotted spoon, a baking tin to use for the wash/rinse, and the 8 inch high "pitcher" to hold the water/dye/golf balls.

The results:

I now wonder if @Yellow Ballis really @whiteball with a dye job 

[Bobbers]

1 hour ago, tony@CIC said:

I now wonder if @Yellow Ballis really @whiteball with a dye job 

As a fellow fan of the  yellow ball I can say that we all take an oath to keep that sort of information largely confidential.  As a member of that fellowship I was allowed to make this post simply as a recruiting tool...

[Vegan_Golfer_PNW]

2 hours ago, tony@CIC said:

I now wonder if @Yellow Ballis really @whiteball with a dye job 

So he’s a wolf in Sheeps clothing? Maybe he is deep state WRXer! The conspiracy is real!

[chisag]

3 hours ago, tony@CIC said:

I now wonder if @Yellow Ballis really @whiteball with a dye job 

 

... Might as well ask Pete Rose if he ever betted again his own team. The dye job looks professional Bobbers! But how did you keep the dye off the logo? 

[Bobbers]

1 hour ago, chisag said:

 

... Might as well ask Pete Rose if he ever betted again his own team. The dye job looks professional Bobbers! But how did you keep the dye off the logo? 

The logo, number, alignment aid, etc., IF they absorbed any dye, maintained their color.  The right half of the "O" in Oncore is red on these balls and I was wondering if the yellow was going to make that part of the logo orange.  It didn't.  I'm guessing the ink they use to imprint the balls is pretty impervious to pretty much anything.  Guess I got lucky.

[PhilM75072]

I'm really curious to hear how these play, as I wonder if the dye affects the depth of the dimples.

[Bobbers]

1 minute ago, PhilM75072 said:

I'm really curious to hear how these play, as I wonder if the dye affects the depth of the dimples.

Dye, unlike paint, is going to, at worst, add millimicrons to the exterior surfaces of the golf ball.  I used a digital micrometer before and after and there was no change in diameter, at least to the precision level of the tool.

Very good question, Phil.