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My Balls Taking Less hits

• maruschak 572 Posts

  Tue, May 19 2015 9:17 AM

  Been away from competing for some time...play a few practice holes almost every day....just noticed something ...and perhaps it's my imagination....but as I play with my Nile L78 balls..they seem to be "living" a lot less than I recall before! I do not take mulligans ..nor do I take "gimmes" which I understand counts as "double" hits....but the life of a ball sure appears to not last as long as it did previously!     If it's a "marketing" thing.....so be it!!!!!!!   In which case..when my supply is depleted....I retire from the 'TOUR!!"

• MBaggese 15,367 Posts

  Tue, May 19 2015 9:27 AM

  maruschak:

  Been away from competing for some time...play a few practice holes almost every day....just noticed something ...and perhaps it's my imagination....but as I play with my Nile L78 balls..they seem to be "living" a lot less than I recall before! I do not take mulligans ..nor do I take "gimmes" which I understand counts as "double" hits....but the life of a ball sure appears to not last as long as it did previously!     If it's a "marketing" thing.....so be it!!!!!!!   In which case..when my supply is depleted....I retire from the 'TOUR!!"

  I've not noticed any difference with the level 71's.

• DavStan 255 Posts

  Sat, May 23 2015 7:36 AM

  The ball life has dropped to almost half of what it was, not only that even if you have several balls in your bag, the little advertisement pops up saying " This is your last ball of this type, click to purchase now" pops up trying to sucker you into buying even more balls!!, but I'm sure there is an explanation!!!

• courteneyfish 15,796 Posts

  Sat, May 23 2015 7:44 AM

  DavStan:

  The ball life has dropped to almost half of what it was.

  No. The life of balls has never changed on any ball. Not since I've been here anyway.

   

• DavStan 255 Posts

  Sat, May 23 2015 7:52 AM

  LOL, guess I'm just imagining it then, I can play 9 hole round with a new ball and its almost in the red where is i use to get atleast three 9 hole rounds out of a ball.

• ScottHope 10,449 Posts

  Sat, May 23 2015 8:04 AM

  I haven't done any tests to prove or disprove this, but the feeling in my gut tells me something is different.
  
  The next new ball I start, I will log each hit.

  Referenced from.

• JFidanza 1,676 Posts

  Sat, May 23 2015 11:35 AM

  ScottHope:

  I haven't done any tests to prove or disprove this, but the feeling in my gut tells me something is different.
  
  The next new ball I start, I will log each hit.

   

   

  Thanks, Scott. I haven't notice anything yet but a few numbers have been suggesting that the ball life on their equipment has been changed. Since the word from wgt is that nothing has been changed then it might be a 'bug' that should be reported.

  I'd ask anyone who is certain that there balls are wearing out faster post their observations in the thread.

• mkg335 5,491 Posts

  Sat, May 23 2015 11:48 AM

  I just tested the L81 Nike, got 117 hits.  I believe the standard for any 2.5 durability ball is 120.  It's possible I missed counting a hit or two, but am certain I didn't over-count, so my conclusion is that nothing has changed as far as ball durability.

  Will wait to see if anybody comes up with different numbers.

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Sat, May 23 2015 12:12 PM

  JFidanza:

  Since the word from wgt is that nothing has been changed ....

  Did I miss that?  Where did WGT say that?

• mkg335 5,491 Posts

  Sat, May 23 2015 12:21 PM

  andyson:

  JFidanza:

  Since the word from wgt is that nothing has been changed ....

  Did I miss that?  Where did WGT say that?

  It was a post by Shamwow in another thread.