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Re: A Thought on the Nike Complainers......

• johntonya0689 705 Posts

  Tue, Dec 27 2011 9:41 AM

  Very good post !!! If you can't afford them then don't buy them.

• borntobesting 9,710 Posts

  Tue, Dec 27 2011 10:34 AM

  TarheelsRule:

  WGT will continue to bring forth better balls as we go forward because, well they money is there.  I don't use the Callaways or Nikes, although I have had some gifted or won and used those and frankly except for the slightly slower meter speed I don't get much benefit from them.  They do go a few yards longer and spin better, however I find that the spin tends to make them more inconsistent in winds.  I currently use the WGT G1SD balls, in light blue of course, which cost 112 credits per sleeve.  These are good enough for me to enjoy the game and be competetive, to each their own but I try to  play without investing any more money and have done that for over a year.

   

  what happened to your pink GI-S balls?

• TarheelsRule 5,566 Posts

  Fri, Jan 20 2012 10:05 AM

  lol

  I ran out of the pink, they were actually purple I think balls.

  As a UNC guy I have to go with the light blue, same type of ball though.  I have tried the NIKE and Callaways and while they have their good points, I always come back to these, they are consistent in any conditions, the meter seems decent and the distance and spin is something that I get every time.  

  I have 20 or so NIKES that I won that sit in my bag.  I'll switch over to them once in a while and end up frustrated by the way the wind effects them, leaving a 175 yard shot that I hit 'perfectly' 25 feet short.  I don't play for money just for fun and these work fine for me.

• JaLaBar 1,254 Posts

  Fri, Jan 20 2012 10:59 AM

  It's not a budget thing at all.  I could afford to play the Nike balls.  For me, it's a principle thing.  The code for adding the Nike ball costs minimal.  Now that the ball is added, they cost WGT absolutely nothing to produce.  And WGT gets sponsorship money from Nike.  All that considered, and the fact that WGT could easily just have made a WGT ball with the same specs, $1.33+ per ball is predatory to me.  $1.00 per ball is predatory to me.  Hell, the $0.83 I pay per i(s) is predatory too, but apparently within the limits I can stomach.

  If WGT were to eliminate the bull$h!t lost balls that roll just out of bounds...

  "Look, I can see it.  It's 3' away"  "Sorry, that ball is lost."

  ...or just under a bush, then maybe it would be different.  But damned if I am going to let them fleece me for $1.33 ea for pretend golf balls that cost them nothing to produce, then have them steal those same golf balls from me.  And I have reached an immovable position on that.  If the ball doesn't go into the water, and WGT says it is lost, they have stolen it.  Just today I hit a drive on SA #9 that went slightly left and appeared to just miss a bush... but according to WGT, it just barely hit the bush, and poof!!  No more Callaway.

  So, I won't buy the Nikes because WGT already takes enough they haven't earned from me, I'm not willing to abet them ripping me off more.  Obviously, others feel differently.  Have at it.

• sixkiller 1,147 Posts

  Fri, Jan 20 2012 11:25 AM

  JaLaBar:

  It's not a budget thing at all.  I could afford to play the Nike balls.  For me, it's a principle thing.  The code for adding the Nike ball costs minimal.  Now that the ball is added, they cost WGT absolutely nothing to produce.  And WGT gets sponsorship money from Nike.  All that considered, and the fact that WGT could easily just have made a WGT ball with the same specs, $1.33+ per ball is predatory to me.  $1.00 per ball is predatory to me.  Hell, the $0.83 I pay per i(s) is predatory too, but apparently within the limits I can stomach.

  If WGT were to eliminate the bull$h!t lost balls that roll just out of bounds...

  "Look, I can see it.  It's 3' away"  "Sorry, that ball is lost."

  ...or just under a bush, then maybe it would be different.  But damned if I am going to let them fleece me for $1.33 ea for pretend golf balls that cost them nothing to produce, then have them steal those same golf balls from me.  And I have reached an immovable position on that.  If the ball doesn't go into the water, and WGT says it is lost, they have stolen it.  Just today I hit a drive on SA #9 that went slightly left and appeared to just miss a bush... but according to WGT, it just barely hit the bush, and poof!!  No more Callaway.

  So, I won't buy the Nikes because WGT already takes enough they haven't earned from me, I'm not willing to abet them ripping me off more.  Obviously, others feel differently.  Have at it.

  I knew there would be someone who couldn't stand it!