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I have three golf balls that I generally put in my bag - Bridgestone RX, Wilson 50/50 or Pro V1 or V1x.
When I find a lost golf ball that I have never heard of before or played I will generally hit it on the course just for kicks. Well, I found a Nike PD (Power Distance) Super Soft today. I immediately loved how it felt off the clubface. It's almost too "quiet" off the club. I gotta get me some of these. Any of you play this ball for any length of time? What do you not like about it? |
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| # 1 7/9/2011 12:43:17 PM |
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I played the Nike PD balls up until last summer for a little over a year I'd say. They are very soft. I think most people who play them do so for the softness. Only thing I didn't like about them was that even though they were soft, I couldn't get any spin out of them. That's probably because I was more inexperienced player at the time, but when I switched to the Nike One Tour I was able to get a lot of spin right away.
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| # 2 7/9/2011 2:34:15 PM |
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Maybe I am wrong but I always thought that soft balls were for slower swing speeds (that is what I have which is why you will never catch me using a Pro-V1 even though I find them in my yard all the time. I also thought that while soft balls would give you distance (provided you don't have a swing like Dustin Johnson) you would be unable to spin the ball if it is soft. I believe you are correct. I have a slower swing speed and of the three balls I mentioned the Pro V's are the worst for my swing speed. The one's I use most often are the 50/50's. They stopped making them and I'm always on a search for a similar ball which I have found in the RX. I'm going to buy some of the PD Soft's and see how it goes (which I can't believe I'm saying because I HATE all things Nike except some of their running shoes). The only reason I still play the 50/50's since they were discontinued is that I got about 5 or 6 dozen from Mongo's site DrMulligans.com as second hand golf balls (you're welcome Mongo!) |
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| # 3 7/9/2011 3:04:25 PM |
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I have played them and I can't tell any difference from the Vapor. A feww years ago Consumer Report rated them as the second best golf ball on the market regardless of price.
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| # 4 7/9/2011 3:15:07 PM |
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I almost exclusively play the Nike PD Soft. They feel good off of the driver face and defenitely provide needed feel around the greens. For the money best ball out there IMHO.
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| # 5 7/9/2011 3:30:55 PM |
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You can find them at Walmart and Target. I think that they are around $25 a dozon.
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| # 6 7/9/2011 5:11:04 PM |
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They're one of the highest rated lower priced balls.
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| # 7 7/9/2011 5:39:00 PM |
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They're one of the highest rated lower priced balls. The new model Top-Flite Gamer V2 is prolly the only one that will out perform it in the lower priced ball catagory. |
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| # 8 7/9/2011 8:40:33 PM |
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These are some good balls. If I play any Nike ball, this is my choice.
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| # 9 7/9/2011 8:55:17 PM |
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They're one of the highest rated lower priced balls. The new model Top-Flite Gamer V2 is prolly the only one that will out perform it in the lower priced ball catagory. True |
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| # 10 7/9/2011 11:46:59 PM |
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Maybe I am wrong but I always thought that soft balls were for slower swing speeds (that is what I have which is why you will never catch me using a Pro-V1 even though I find them in my yard all the time. I also thought that while soft balls would give you distance (provided you don't have a swing like Dustin Johnson) you would be unable to spin the ball if it is soft. If you're not playing a ProV1 because it's "soft", then yep, you are wrong. A ball's feel and its compression are two different things. And a ball that feels soft typically spins quite a bit more than one that feels hard. Typically. |
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| # 11 7/10/2011 11:26:01 AM |
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So then can you fix my statement, cuz I am darned sure I should not be using a Pro-V1. So with a slow swing speed should I be playing lower compression balls that are soft, lower compression balls that are hard? I used to enjoy life more when the largest selling balls were Maxfli and Titleist. Less decisions to make. Can you spin softer balls, lower compression balls? Do we need to get Goynes in here. (The guy is a walking encyclopedia of golf! Maybe I am wrong but I always thought that soft balls were for slower swing speeds (that is what I have which is why you will never catch me using a Pro-V1 even though I find them in my yard all the time. I also thought that while soft balls would give you distance (provided you don't have a swing like Dustin Johnson) you would be unable to spin the ball if it is soft. If you're not playing a ProV1 because it's "soft", then yep, you are wrong. A ball's feel and its compression are two different things. And a ball that feels soft typically spins quite a bit more than one that feels hard. Typically. If you don't have the required swing speed to compress all the parts of a pro v1 you are not going to get the most out of that ball. The pro v1 has 3 layers: the cover, the casing layer and the core. I believe slower swing speed players do not compress the core all the way which results in the loss of distance for those guys. 72Wannabe: Wilson still makes a ball called the 50 elite and it is very similiar to the 50/50. I know Edwin Watts carries them. |
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| # 12 6/15/2012 7:32:26 AM |
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We have the PD Soft for $9.95/dz. and through Sunday 6/17 they're on sale for $7.95/dz. We also have the PD Long. Mint condition, no scuffs, no discoloration, no pen marked balls.
www.drmulligans.com |
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| # 13 7/20/2012 8:43:32 PM |
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Played my first round with these yesterday. Love this ball. As a soft as a babys behind. It was 95 degrees outside. The ball was melting on my irons
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