What is the best golf ball for your game? That is the question that each golf ball manufacture is trying to answer for you. Titliest markets their golf balls as being the number one ball on Tour and if it good for the tour player it is great for you. Nike markets their golf ball as the one Tiger likes best. If Nike is good for Tiger it is great for you. Callaway spends a lot of advertising dollars explaining why it is good for their Tour players so it must be great for you. Taylor Made markets their drivers as being number one on Tour so their golf balls are developed by the same engineers that developed the number driver on Tour. What does all this mean to you? Nothing!

            Chose a golf ball you can afford that matches your game. Golf balls are so expensive when you consider that most players lose at least two balls per round. So what is the answer? The longest ball in golf goes further off line because it is the longest ball. Inexpensive golf balls are designed to go longer but they generally don’t spin much making chipping and putting more difficult. Try a golf ball that has a moderate spin rate. That ball will give you feel but also promotes distance.

            I recommend that you take golf lessons from a PGA professional if you want to improve your abilities. Equipment and golf balls are marketed to make us all believe that switching will create dramatic improvement, but it won’t unless what you use today is poor matched to your golf swing. Once again a properly trained instructor will help you evaluate your equipment and golf balls to asses if they are right for you. I buy a lot of golf balls and my preference is the Nike One but I would not recommend that ball for my wife. My game has improved not because Tiger and I use the same type of golf ball, but because I started taking golf lessons from Justin Rose’s teacher, Nick Bradley. The improvement in my game is amazing.