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**grosqueneen** · 08-25-2009, 08:59 PM

Nice post JP and while I agree that a ProV1 isn't technically a distance ball, it would be compared with something like the old Titleist balatas. Those things went nowhere compared with the balls of today. Now an old pinnacle or top-flite or molitor or similar would probably have gone further than a pro v1 (I would guess anyway), but by god did you pay for it with the lack of spin. The real gain in the golf ball is a ball that goes like an old two piece distance ball, but spins like an old balata (though not as much granted).

Having played balata's for years (and loving them to death), I agree that the ProV1 is a longer ball. So I might modify my argument to say that if I haven't gotten longer, I've at the very least, maintained my distance from years ago.

But the rest of my post still stands; that intellect and attention to mechanics and technique win out over brute force and as such renders the issue of "being fifty", moot.

-JP

08-25-2009, 08:59 PM	#20
grosqueneen Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 443 Senior Member	Nice post JP and while I agree that a ProV1 isn't technically a distance ball, it would be compared with something like the old Titleist balatas. Those things went nowhere compared with the balls of today. Now an old pinnacle or top-flite or molitor or similar would probably have gone further than a pro v1 (I would guess anyway), but by god did you pay for it with the lack of spin. The real gain in the golf ball is a ball that goes like an old two piece distance ball, but spins like an old balata (though not as much granted). Having played balata's for years (and loving them to death), I agree that the ProV1 is a longer ball. So I might modify my argument to say that if I haven't gotten longer, I've at the very least, maintained my distance from years ago. But the rest of my post still stands; that intellect and attention to mechanics and technique win out over brute force and as such renders the issue of "being fifty", moot. -JP
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