Palm Springs Golf Balls

Advantages: Extra distance with the driver. Excellent control and spin. Well priced high performance golf ball for the average golfer.
Disadvantages: Meaningless advertising.

...~ ~ Srixon is probably not the first name that springs to a person's mind when they think of golf equipment manufacturers. Names like Slazenger, John Letters and Dunlop, and more recently Taylor Made, Callaway, and Nike are the manufacturers of clubs, balls and equipment that most modern-day golfers would readily associate with being market leaders in the golf world. ~ ~ So who are Srixon, and why are they now quickly establishing themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the golf equipment market? Well, they're a Japanese rubber company called Sumitomo Rubber Industries who have been manufacturing golf balls since way back in 1930, when they began producing Dunlop golf balls under licence in Japan. Thirty three years later, in 1963, they actually bought out Dunlop in the UK, and entered the golf ball market worldwide. So why have we... Read review

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Advantages: Goes FAR further than the average golf ball
Disadvantages: Can only be used successfully by the top players

...~ ~ It’s appropriate that I should be writing about the new golf ball from Titleist, the Pro V1x, as I sit watching the last nine holes of the 2003 U.S. Master’s Championship at the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia. As I type, past Master’s champion Vijay Singh has just launched yet another absolutely enormous drive of well over 330 yards down the 10th fairway, leaving him a relatively simple pitch shot to a par 4 that measures all of 490 yards, and which ordinary mortals could only dream of reaching in two shots. (Singh has just birdied the 10th hole, by the way) I mention Singh, as he is one of more than 50% of touring professionals who are now using the Pro V1x in preference to any other type of golf ball. ~ ~ The Titleist Pro V1x is the successor to the Titleist Pro V1, which Titleist launched back in 1996... Read review

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Advantages: Tiger Wood eat your heart out
Disadvantages: Will not be popular with your bank manager

...In the recent past, every golf ball manufacturer has boasted that theirs was the longest ball. Golf balls that travelled prodigious distance were created to meet this challenge, such that some golf courses were almost being rendered obsolete. Advances in materials for golf clubs and golf balls, application of technology and research on the golf swing has led to the innovations in amazing golf products. By the turn of the century, the two golf’s governing bodies, the Royal and Ancient and the United States Golf Association, found it necessary to give restrictions on golf equipment. The length of golf clubs is now restricted to 47 inches, while club heads for woods are restricted to 470cc. In the same vein, the coefficient of restitution, the so-called spring like effect on the driver’s clubface, has been limited to 0.83. The distance... Read review

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