Poly Practice Golf Balls Are Great When You Can't Get To The Practice Range
Written: May 21 '09 (Updated May 21 '09)
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Pros: Good practice tool if you have limited space, will point out swing flaws
Cons: Not very good on a windy day
The Bottom Line: Poly Practice Golf balls are a great practice aid, particularly if you have limited space
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| sparkospunky's Full Review: Poly Practice Golf Balls |
I'm a pretty busy guy and it's almost always pretty hard for me to find time to go to the practice range and hone my swing. I live smack dab in the middle of my town, so there are no adjacent fields that I can sneak off to and hit shag balls, and my yard is so small that my neighbors could be endangered if I even practiced chipping with real golf balls at home. I solved my problem a couple of years ago by buying a ten ball bag of Poly Practice Golf Balls, made by Olympia, for around $5. I've found these balls to be a great practice aid, for many reasons.
As the name indicates, these balls are made of some derivative of the poly family, which I think is really just plastic. Even though I've never measured these balls, I believe them to be the exact size of a real regulation golf ball--they certainly appear to be when I eyeball one of them compared to the real thing. These balls are hollow and have a number of uniformly spaced holes punched in them, exactly like the old whiffle balls that we played baseball with in our back yards all those years ago. These holes are important, and here's why.
The holes actually keep the Poly Practice Golf Balls from flying very far. I generally get in my front yard and hit them with a pitching wedge, and when I take a good full swing, the ball only travels 20 to 25 yards which means I can practice in my yard without landing them in my neighbors' yards. I imagine if you hit these balls with a driver or a long iron you could get a lot more distance, but I can practice with my wedge, stay in my own territory, and work out my swing problems.
I think that these balls fly pretty true--if you're coming over the top of the ball, it will go left and even hook, and if you're blocking or slicing the ball, it will go right and fade. After I hit some of these balls, I watch the flight and make the necessary adjustments to my swing. Of course, like all high handicappers, those adjustments usually don't last very long, but I can get my swing grooved for a while until the old bad habits set back in.
Since these balls are light as a feather, wind really exaggerates sidespin, so you don't really get a lot of feedback on what you're doing right or wrong when you practice with them on a windy day.
I recommend the Poly Practice Golf Balls for those of you who like to practice at home and don't have a lot of room to operate with. I think they mimick the flight of the real deal, and these balls have become a pretty integral part of my practice routine.
Thanks for reading.
Recommended:
Yes
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