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New Legend Balls

• funger50 41 Posts

  Mon, Oct 4 2010 1:50 AM

  NEW LEGEND BALL - There is a new ball available only to our top players in the Legend Tier, regardless of their Level. Its the longest ball available in the game today with extra carry and distance to help Legends compete more fairly from the Championship tees.

   

  What a Joke      !!!!!!!!!!

  on 15 holes we getting   x3 yards   no par 3`s    =  45 yards  in total

  I know your answer  and answers from Masters  will be:

  nobody is forced to buy them

  What a joke     !!!!!!!

• seanobrien 296 Posts

  Mon, Oct 4 2010 2:11 AM

  They are rubbish. But WGT is making money from them. So what do you think the result will be? (thought time here) Exactly.

• JuanMendoza 469 Posts

  Mon, Oct 4 2010 3:28 AM

  Only took 2 sleeves for me to work that out.

  I find the GI-SDs adequate.

• birdwell 561 Posts

  Mon, Oct 4 2010 6:09 AM

  On a course like BPB where you need the carry, the new balls are worth it.

  For example, it is difficult to carry the bunker off the tee on the drive @ #12 into a headwind. It gets a lot easier with the SD2. You simply have more room for error.

  In a tailwind, you can really launch it. Had a 14mph wind @11o'clock on #15 last night - drove it about 300 yards and hit a 8 iron to 7 feet from the lower pin. Rattled in the putt for my only birdie on the back 9.

   

  on average you may only get 3-4 yards. But, if you hold your mouth just right and know how to finesse the spin off the tee for max carry and distance - you'll get more from these balls.

  They totally screw up most of my approach shots however. Wedges and short irons are in the air considerably longer. I should probably play a few rounds in low wind to get the baseline down.

• Kaslo 428 Posts

  Mon, Oct 4 2010 10:54 AM

  I have to agree with those that find no benefit in the legend ball. While I understand WGT's desire to proceed with caution, unfortunately the new balls are insufficient to address the concerns we have with the tee disparages. 

• Tarheel3rd 55 Posts

  Mon, Oct 4 2010 6:28 PM

  Lol.... not clear to me how WGT doesn't pick up on the obvious... or maybe they do and don't care. I don't know, but as I keep stating over and over.... UNFAIR for legends.... new driver or move up the tees.... WGT please just take a sec and think..... Legends, Masters same clubs but Legends play 50 yds farther back each hole.... Does this make any sense to you?? It doesn't to me. I am frustrated with the fact that WGT can not solve this problem and is playing less and less. I have no desire to play in unfair conditions and the game hasn't been fun lately. This continuous problems could lead to WGT losing many valuable high skill players. Will WGT come to their senses then?  

• 6packmike 235 Posts

  Mon, Oct 4 2010 6:57 PM

  I've found they really carry well if you are close to the bell or ring it. Certainly you have to be accurate with aiming and using the meter as the carry is different almost hurting on the short irons yet helping on the longer clubs, but it can really help even up the game. Or at least I'm getting some low scores on SA lol. Maybe a 280 yard driver is coming for only masters who knows? The solution for me is to play a lot of blitz games which are a real blast. There, even basic 10 credits for three will do. When so much can depend on just holding a green and getting the greens in a row bonus and even accuracy runs there's all the challenge of the real game and more.

• bryan24 68 Posts

  Tue, Oct 5 2010 12:50 PM

  ummmm you guys aren't doing a very good job of selling me on the new legend ball. seriously I have been outdriving (on some holes) guys that are using the new ball and of course I am not using it. I seriously doubt that I will ever buy a sleeve of these balls that will improve my scores a very little or most likely not at all.....

• stevietwotimes 1,327 Posts

  Fri, Oct 29 2010 8:11 AM

  purchased the gi2-sd2 balls to give a try and what a shock.i played a tor pro (rockinroland )who had exact driver, woods, wedges, irons and the gi-sd balls,thought i could get even with him.i was nowhere near him and lost by 3 shots ?????????(st.andrews front 9). WGT  give us legends a chance and not fob us off with balls that dont do as advertised. just dont see how anyone can buy them cos they are garbage...............dont get me started on the drinks..LMAO.

• PGAbound67 565 Posts

  Fri, Oct 29 2010 8:55 AM

  Wait....you thought that the new legend balls were going to make up for the 50 yards difference there is in the tee boxes from pro to Legend? lol They do as advertised, they give you an extra dot of distance. No where does WGT advertise that this ball will go 50 yards further, allowing you to make up the difference in yardage between the pro tees and the legend tees