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Thursday
Mar092006

Ohio GA Competition Ball Event Follow-Up

Many potential ramifications loom from the Ohio Golf Association's decision to try out a shorter-flying ball this August. 

Readers of The Future of Golf know that a similar scenario was suggested. One in which such a grass roots uprising could be the equivalent Softspikes. 

Such a scenario may occur here, and you have to like the prospects of the ball company that ends up being the choice of the the Ohio Golf Association's competition ball.  

And don't shed any tears for the companies whose balls are not selected. They've had several years to prepare such a ball for this scenario.

They passed up the chance in the apparent hope this would go away.

And as for the USGA's likely chilly reception to this idea? Again, they've had plenty of time to act and have done nothing.

PS - Anyone care to nominate which ball Ohio might have found on the conforming ball list? I'd sure like to buy some and try them out, and I bet a bunch of other people would as well.
 

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I can only guess at how to narrow the list down:
Major manufacturer, operating in the US
The ball should be in production and easily available from regular retail outlets
Will most likely be marketed towards people with lower swing speeds or "for all swing speeds", since no significant advantage is to be gained by people with higher swing speeds

I would also guess the ball in question will be made with several kinds of cover materials (more/less spin) but the same inner cover/core in order to offer some choice to the golfer.

My guess: one of the Precept line
03.9.2006 | Unregistered CommenterScott S
Sorry for the double post, but what do you usually play Geoff?
03.9.2006 | Unregistered CommenterScott S
Three-piece with a lower compression rate...the Precept U-Tri Tour is a good guess, or maybe the PWRDrive. For the money, the PWRDrive is a really good ball. The Callaway HX Blue is shorter and softer than its big brothers, the Tour and the Tour56 - and so are the HX Red and Hot. Maxfli's got the Revolution EXT and the BlackMax, the Nike One Black's three-piece (but a little on the hot side)...some varities of the NXT Tour were three-piece, according to the list, but I haven't seen them. Top-Flite Strata TL Tour, the Wilson Staff Tx3...
03.10.2006 | Unregistered CommenterReverendTMac
GUYS-the exec dir of the ohio golf association found a case of balata pro traj in a closet this winter. he is just trying to get rid of them.
03.10.2006 | Unregistered Commenterscott
I still have 2 dozen Titleist Tour Prestige balls somewhere in a closet or trunk. . .

Here's hoping that the concept is embraced by those players eligible to participate in this event. One would think that the honor of being feted on this blog would be enough?
03.10.2006 | Unregistered CommenterSmolmania
If only somebody still had some balata pro traj's ready. :-)
03.10.2006 | Unregistered CommenterJPB
What about the Titleist Pro-100. This one was one step up from the Pro-Traj. Speaking of Pro-Traj, there was also a ball called the Pro-Traj LT, for Low Trajectory, this was a great three piece ball that flew better in the wind, and stayed flatter in Traj for big swingers with lots of club head speed. I like to see Tiger or Vijay hit the Pro-Traj LT. This LT always reminded me of Lawrence Taylor, from the NY Giants. Funny how you remember things like that.
03.10.2006 | Unregistered CommenterBrett

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