New balls, please - the battle for the future of

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golf By Lawrence Donegan

The Pro V is 5 Years Old!!!

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October 11 will be a happy birthday for the world's most popular golf ball, the Titleist Pro V-1, but also a troubled one. Five years after it was unveiled at the Invensys Classic at Las Vegas the ball accounts for more than one in every four sold in the United States - a success rate that allows its manufacturer to dominate a $1bn-a-year market.

That is the good news for the birthday boy. The bad is that the Pro V-1 now finds itself in the middle of a civil war over the future of the game. In one corner stand the traditionalists, who argue that balls like the Pro V-1, which travel much farther than their predecessors, are destroying the game, rendering some of the great courses obsolete and removing the strategic subtleties that give golf its appeal. In the other stand companies like Titleist, who claim there is no conflict between their commercial interests and the interests of the game.

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For 95% or more of the golfing public this ball has done nothing but made us able to enjoy the game more. Develop a tournament ball for the professionals and leave the longer balls out of it

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The problem there is where do you draw the line? Who uses the "tournament ball"? When? Where? Does a 3 handicape use it for everyday use or does he just continue to judge himself on an unfair scale to the professionals? Even though a tournament ball has been well talked about, I can't see it being the solution.

 

Personally, I don't care. Limit all the balls. As long as I'm playing the same ball as the next guy, I'm fine.

 

Chris