By:
Jessica Marksbury
,
Jeff Smith, High 100 Trainer
January 8, 2023
Excessive handicappers ought to search for sure options in a golf ball.
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With so many golf balls available on the market, it may be tough to determine which one can be greatest on your recreation, particularly in case you’re a excessive handicapper.
As a result of let’s be sincere — in case you’re susceptible to shedding balls throughout a spherical, value will be extra of an element than merely selecting the ball that performs greatest to your strengths.
At GOLF’s latest High 100 Trainer Summit at Speaking Stick in Scottsdale, Ariz., I requested teacher Jeff Smith for his recommendation.
“For a excessive handicapper, the problem is all of the producers are making a golf ball for someone,” he mentioned. “So what you wish to do is use the ball that feels ok to you on the putter and wedge and goes far sufficient off the motive force.”
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Smith advisable staying with firmer-compression balls, as a result of softer-compression balls are typically on the upper finish of the worth spectrum.
“They spin lots,” Smith mentioned. “Since we’re making an attempt to cut back a few of that spin, I like to recommend greater handicaps go together with a firmer ball.”
Smith steered making an attempt a number of mid-range fashions and working towards some photographs across the inexperienced to evaluate them.
“For those who don’t have a very good really feel in your brief recreation — if the ball feels a bit too agency, or sounds a bit of too clicky and doesn’t spin at throughout the inexperienced if you’re anticipating some — chances are you’ll wish to rethink what you’re enjoying,” he mentioned.
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“The ball must also really feel actually good, and sound actually good to you off the putter,” he mentioned. “As a result of if it doesn’t, it’s going to make it laborious so that you can dial in your velocity management and make some putts.”
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As a four-year member of Columbia’s inaugural class of feminine varsity golfers, Jessica can out-birdie everybody on the masthead. She will be able to out-hustle them within the workplace, too, the place she’s primarily liable for producing each print and on-line options, and overseeing main particular tasks, similar to GOLF’s inaugural Model Issue, which debuted in February 2018. Her original interview sequence, “A Spherical With,” debuted in November of 2015, and appeared in each within the journal and in video type on GOLF.com.