Titleist Pinnacle Gold Golf Balls

Author's product rating:   

Price	good
Durability	very good
Spinning	very much

Advantages:	Good feel, Shiny, bounces well, good value for money
Disadvantages:	Being a golf ball  -  none really .  .  .

Recommend to potential buyers:

yes

Full review

Golf, the sport traditionally favoured by Upper Class toffs, overweight American businessmen and any other Industrial Fat Cat who comes my way, is a strict pompous sport, with strict, pompous rules.

Jeremy Clarkson's view of golfers:
"A misogynist who cares more about his trousers than his wife"

And it's not just the married or old ones either. Show ME a Junior Golfer, as they most likely call them, and I'll show you a pansy with neatly combed hair and a father with a new BMW 5-series.
I came across one just today ,in fact, pulled out a Golf ball, and asked him, in my jovial "old wag" sort of tone: "Is this ball an expensive one?" He took a quick, dismissive sort of look and replied: "Oh no, that's a rubbish cheap one. The best golf ball is a Maxfli M3Z4' (or something of that nature).
It's a sad, sad world when our golf balls, simple contraptions made of plastic, rubber, and miles and miles of that stringy latex stuff have to sound like the type of missiles they drop on Iraq.

The main problem about golf is that it's simply designed to stop any threat of a thrill. They wear baggy trousers! They wear special caps to keep their eyes out of the sun! They have the most boring commentator known to mankind! ("And now, Montgomery prepares his next shot... bluuuuuuurrr-r-r--r")
They use golf buggies (YAY!) that only do about 8 mph (BOO!)

Anyway, before we get started, i'd just like to say that the above is fact, not opinion, and no offence intended to anyone who just plays it because they enjoy it. : )

I found this ball next to a golf course, and have been most impressed with it since. The ball in queston weighs exactly one and a half ounces, if the olde-worlde kitchen scales are anything to go by.

It is blessed with the same colour as those yellowish striped visibility jackets worn by police, builders and increasingly by young children walking to school with their mummies, at least where I live. (Essex)

Hang on, it's that special high-visibility yellow? This must be revolutionary. A golf ball looking like a tennis ball?
There must be a rule about this. They're probably making one now.

On it it says: "Pinnacle 3" (turn around) "Gold~Distance" (Whatever that means) and (turn around) Pinnacle 3 again.
(Eyes stop spinning)

I don't actually see how this ball can go any further than the rest, considering they all have to weigh within 3 grams of the standard weight. Maybe the little round Hexagons on the surface of it (Roundagons?) are smoother, thus more aerodynamic.
However, the funnest thing about this ball is just how bouncy it is. Drop it on a hard floor and it will make a "pak" sound and bounce about 70% percent of the way back up again. (Compared to the usual 40% I get from my other scavenged golf balls) Not only that, when spun of the average computer desk it wizzes round for ages. (approx. 12 seconds)

A not-so-vigorous robustness test revealed some impressive results. After hitting it with hard and not-so-hard objects I concluded that it was either pretty tough, or led a charmed life.
Indeed, it damaged the objects I was hitting it with rather more that the object in question. Pretty good overall. However, when I found it it had two parallel scratches next to each other, presumably from the club that triggered it's first and last voyage (If I have a say in it)

The Pinnacle golf ball size three is probably from a set of "Mid-Range Grade A golf balls" costing about 16 quid from www.lakeballs.com. Mid-Range means that they are not economy balls, neither are they the posh Tiger Woods approved ones. (Wow, I went that far without a Tiger Woods reference)

I imagine this ball would be pretty good for playing golf, If I could actually bother to buy golf clubs, a caddy, tees, baggy trousers, a sun visor hat, and (It goes without saying, really)
A golf buggy. Only with a petrol engine.
A 6 litre V12 from a Ferrari Enzo. Or would the emissions damage the pitch?