Best Golf Ball For Cold Weather
What is the best golf ball for cold weather? This is an interesting, and not entirely straightforward, question. All balls, including the very best golf balls (opens in new tab) on the market, behave and perform differently at different temperatures. You’ll often hear tour pros say the ball wasn’t flying so far this week in the cold or was going further in warmer temperatures.
Golf balls do lose a little distance in the cold because the air is denser, which increases lift and drag so the ball flies slightly higher and a little shorter. If the golf ball itself gets very cold, this can affect the characteristics of its materials resulting in lower initial velocity off the clubface too. There appear to be differing views as to the best golf ball for cold weather, though. One school of thought is that balls with a softer compression might help you hit it a little further in the cold; the other is that a harder ball will potentially carry further through the air, giving you more distance overall when the fairways are soft (as they often are in the colder months).
Here, we’ve pooled together balls from some of our other guides that we believe will be beneficial for playing in colder months of the year. Some of these balls are also listed on our guides to the best value balls (opens in new tab), the best distance balls (opens in new tab) and the best soft-feel balls (opens in new tab). Other factors include visibility, for example, which balls will be easiest to track and find in gloomier weather or when there’s frost on the ground. Our guide to the best yellow golf balls (opens in new tab) will come in handy here, and don’t forget there’s also now a much wider choice when it comes to golf ball color than there used to be.
Then there’s the small matter of greenside performance. If you go for a firmer ball for more carry distance, you might be concerned about its effect on your short game. But don’t forget – conditions are often softer and wetter in the colder months, and it may actually help you get the ball to the…
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