okay so the question is uh why do we
why do we drop golf balls something i like to do is uh cut golf
balls in half as you can see when you do that you get to see
all the different elements that are inside a golf ball
and what makes them uh different so like for example this new one from
taylor made the soft response it has a thick outer core
okay and then it's got the second core which is
fairly thick and then it's got a large inner core so that's
your standard three piece ball that's what a three piece ball would look like
this is a good example because each layer is fairly thick and then the
different thicknesses you make these and the different characteristics you use
when constructing a golf ball will determine how it performs in flight
okay so that's like a good tailor-made example here's the tp
5x and so you've got this is a good one because it's got
a super thin cover layer okay then you've got the a fairly thick
secondary layer in gray there then you've got that black
layer uh as the third really third layer then you've got the white like a four
layer so it's like a really this is a five piece ball
okay because that top um layer counts as
as something so you can see the difference here between the tp5x and the
soft response this the cover is super thick
whereas the cover on here is super thin and
that's the difference in those types of golf balls whereas like say the pro v1
x has a little bit thicker of a cover so it's got a pretty soft cover and then
it's got a super thin second core which is that uh black or
darkest color then it's got a thick uh blue so that thicker blue core and
then a smaller core right versus
you know the core on here is you can see the difference between the purple and
the dark blue or gray color here and all these things
make each ball a little bit different some are very similar
some are very different but that's why you got to do a lot of testing to see
which one performs best for you so what we're going to do is
we're going to hit these and i'm going to give you the numbers
kind of standard numbers let's say with a wedge and a mid iron
and a driver and we're going to look at which ball would be best suited for
which person alright so let's do that now okay here's
what we're going to do we're going to do our ball test we're
going to hit pitching wedges we'll do six irons and then we'll do
driver and we're just looking at kind of
average numbers for each different ball and we'll hit
about the same number of shots with each we'll hit the same number of shots
with each ball and which with each club that we use
and we'll i'll give you all those numbers
so that you can see kind of what we're dealing with in terms of ball
and then we'll just talk briefly about what uh
would be best suited for whom which ball would be best for
whom so then you can make your decision and
i think it'll be good i won't make you watch every single shot i hit but
you get the idea of what we're doing that's what we're doing and i'll just go
how i pull it out srixon is up first
okay uh with the pitching wedge there's a clear winner in my book
for uh pitching wedges so stay tuned i'll reveal all that at the end of the
video but uh it's it's pretty obvious
which ball performs the best for me in terms of the wedge so we're gonna move
on to the six iron do the same thing and then drive a lot
of balls i'm hitting five shots each club ten plus fifty shots with the
six iron fifty shots with the pitching like 50
shots with the driver
all right we're good
okay uh that's that's everything i swear to that
okay i gotta change my shirt go over these numbers
surprising stuff for sure i think we have um
i think we have a winner though we have a winning ball we'll go over that and
then you can decide for yourself which is the right ball for you let's go
alright let's break this down exciting day
i am uh i'm spent so in terms of wedges let's look at some of the numbers uh and
we'll give you the data for for what we have the ball that spun
the least the lowest spin error spinner in the wedge category was the vice ball
it had an average spin rate of about 8 200.
so in the wedge i want a lot more spin on the wedge not
a lot less so that wasn't very good the highest
spin rate i got among all the wedges or all the balls with the
wedge was the pro v1 regular just pro v1 at 9100 spin rate
and you can see kind of the difference in how the ball
is constructed high spin rate low spin rate and
that was that everything else uh was a little bit
different in their spin rate all performed fairly well
however the uh if you if we looked at the velocity
uh i felt like that went really high and didn't really go as far and you could
see my average carry was like 110 with the velocity ball so in terms of
distance that really wasn't wasn't getting where i wanted it uh to
go so yeah that was just kind of something
i noticed and dispersion wise and consistency
there was one ball in the wedge category that really stood out
among the rest and that was the bridgestone tour bx in the wedge
category okay so that's the winner in the wedge
game would be that guy the bridgestone tour
bx okay so in terms of the six iron how did
that look well if you want distance uh the one
that went the farthest on average was interestingly
the worst wedge performer which would be the titleist velocity
so that one had you know average carry distance of 180 with the six iron so
very very long flying ball uh lower spin 4600 average spin rate
with the velocity and another one that performed very well
with the six iron also a little more spin than that but
had an average carry distance of 176 was the tour
the max flight tour cg so that one also performed very well
and uh interestingly the srixon actually really performed well with the
six iron also so those are distance those are getting me good distance
numbers and if you want distance with those mid
irons then the velocity is probably the way to go it just kind of went
pretty far and but if you want a little more distance
and performance i'd go with the max fly tour cg for that but the one that
performed the best in terms of accuracy and consistency for
me was the titleist pro v1x so
again you've got to decide what you want if you're looking for more distance
then it's something else you want a little more accuracy then again
it's something else there so a lot of good numbers
with the six iron i would say the one that performed the worst
with the six iron unfortunately was the tailor made
soft response that thing i just was super inconsistent with that it kind of
went everywhere and my carry was among the
lowest at 162 average carry distance and it had a lot of spin too so i'm just
guessing it was spinning a lot so if you have a slower swing speed however
something like this might work for you because it'll generate more spin get
that ball going a little uh farther for you
or if you just don't spin the ball a lot that might be something to consider
to get more spin with your mid iron so but for me it didn't perform
well at all now how about the driver so driver was very very interesting
with the numbers okay um so the highest spinning ball in my test
was the uh taylormade uh what is this yeah the tp5 x that was a high spinning
performed pretty well but it was one of the highest spinning
balls the lowest spinning ball of all with the driver
was the vice and i was actually incredibly accurate with the vice
it was shocking and i've always said it was a good ball i bash on it a little
bit because look here's one of the balls from the
tests the maximum times i could have hit one ball would have been
nine shots and it's already got a scuff mark on it i don't know if you can see
that right there so that's my problem with the vise is
that they just scuff up and they get
destroyed pretty easily and all it hit was the
club and the net that was it so imagine if
you hit a cart path or uh i don't know
the ground that's the problem or like they just get ruined so fast
and they're not as cheap as uh they appear to be unfortunately it was
like 34 for a dozen like i said if you want
to save money on a ball go with this one because uh last i
checked if you get two dozen they're 25 dollars per dozen and they're
really great balls so actually for the price the
max like tour gcs are probably the best for the money
the one that performed the best in my driver testing for me
believe it or not for the driver was the chrome
soft actually performed really well most accurate most
carry distance best numbers so very very well the one that uh i use the pro
v1x act also did very well but i hit a
couple bad shots with it so i kind of you know i
kind of choked a little bit in the testing
with the ball that i use that happens what are you gonna do
but that's what happened so it didn't perform as good as some of the others
in this test however uh which ball would i am i
going to use i think for me the two that performed the best for me and my
testing were the bridgestone uh i haven't used
that much so i might test it out a little bit
more that performed really well so that's
up on my list and the pro v1x for me performed
really well so the numbers were really good for me so i don't think i'm going
to change balls from what i can normally use
but that's what happened in this test and i hope you uh
had a great time with the video looking at the numbers and maybe shed some light
on what you're looking for and i think depending on the type of player you are
the best thing to do is do a test get 10 different types of balls
and mess around and see which ones perform
best for you but looking at the numbers i've given you you should be able
to pick a ball that's going to best suit your game
so that's the little testing giving you some numbers to consider when you
are determining what ball you're going to put in play they're very different
they all perform very differently and not one ball is best in every single
category you can see there's not one that won
every time it's kind of something different so depending on what you're
looking for in your game or what your needs are
uh you have a lot of different choices to choose from so
hope this video was uh entertaining love you guys
i will see you in the next video