Golf Ball fitting
All players want to shoot lower scores. Titleist now manufacture golf balls to help golfers achieve their ultimate goal; to score their best. They claim that if you play a golf ball that is properly fit for your game, your shot execution will improve and you will lower your score. Now this is music to my ears, I mean all of us want to do everything we can to lower our scores right?
Tour players know that changing the golf ball changes every shot. When testing golf balls to find the best ball for their game, their performance evaluation focuses mainly on the scoring shots to the green. Additionally, their golf ball performance evaluation is done on a golf course.
This same golf ball fitting process benefits all golfers. The Titleist approach to golf ball fitting focuses on performance to help you lower your score.
The Titleist Approach
- Titleist Performance Golf Ball Fitting focuses on lowering your score
- The best place to determine the best golf ball for your game is on a golf course
- Golf Ball Fitting is best conducted from green-to-tee, starting with scoring shots
There’s only one piece of equipment you use on every shot, your golf ball. Every shot counts and so does your golf ball, yet we often hear golfers say they play with “whatever is in my bag.” Performance differences between golf ball brands and models are game changing, especially on short game scoring shots. I personally prefer a soft feel ball because it gives me more confidence around the greens and a much better feel with chip shots.
Playing with the same golf ball model every round eliminates this performance variation and will help you hit more greens in regulation and hit the ball closer to the pin to convert more putts. This is one of the first steps to developing a more consistent game.
Whether you’re a PGA Tour player or lower swing speed amateur, you play a wide variety of shots during your round. Since a golf ball only reacts to the force being applied, different shots will require different swing speed (force) in order to execute them properly.
Ball fitting for swing speed is a myth. A golf ball must perform for all golfers of all swing speeds on all shots, otherwise it won’t perform for any golfer. A PGA Tour player’s driver swing speed is higher than most amateurs. Yet his speed on long or mid-irons may be similar to your driver swing speed. A Titleist golf ball will perform as well on your drives as it does on the PGA player’s iron shots. The golf ball just reacts to the force at impact and Titleist golf balls perform for all swing speeds on all shots.
I read a great article recently in a golf magazine. There are literally tons of golf balls these days that suite every golfer. The 2 corse ball such as the srixon soft feel is great for mid-high handicappers as you get a lot of distance off the tee while still having good spin around the greens. It will definitely improve your golf game