Hands up who switches golf balls between the summer and winter months? Go on, admit it, the concept hasn’t even crossed your mind. Well, I’m here to tell you why switching from a soft summer ball to a firmer winter ball will do wonders for your scores.
I played golf with a woman last week who had an Aladdin’s cave of golf ball varieties in her bag. Every brand, colour, compression, you name it, came out of her ball pocket. She claimed that she had never bought a new golf ball, as she walks her dog around the course and finds hundreds of balls (actually Buster does!) every year. Most of them end up in her golf bag.
Now while this is a marvellous cost-saver, I was keen to point out to her that at the least, she should sort through her myriad of ball choices and then just leave a dozen or so of the same ball in her bag. I’m not just talking about the same brand, Titleist, Srixon, Callaway etc, I’m talking about the specific ball too – Titleist Pro VI, Callaway Soft Feel, Srixon AD333.
I explained that by playing with any old random golf ball she would never have any control over the distance she hits her shots and the yardage they fly would be inconsistent. To add to that, her touch and feel on the greens and spin control on her approach shots, chips and bunker shots would be dramatically different from ball-to-ball.
Every ball has different spin characteristics and different cover properties, resulting in very different performance and feel. In other words, by not sticking to the same golf brand and model for an entire round of golf she was doing her game (and scores) some serious harm.
Taking this one step further, I’m a big advocate for switching my golf ball between summer and winter months because the conditions are so different. In the summer my golf ball of choice is usually a premium high-spin multi-layered three or four-piece golf ball like a Titleist Pro VI.
These golf balls give me the very best spin control, touch and feel around the greens when the ground is firm and the greens are fast. They are, generally-speaking, the most expensive golf balls to buy, but they really do give a wonderful feel and response. No matter what standard of golfer you are, you will benefit from the improvement in skill control from the added spin and stop a premium golf ball delivers in the summer.
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