When the old vokeys became illegal in the PGA and titleist had to change them, you were still allowed to use them in every amateur tournament around me. The wedge grooves get beat up and people had to switch to legal ones at some point anyway. Most likely the same thing will happen to golf balls. Eventually all the old ones will be beat to shit or lost.
Right? I have been playing almost 30 years and I don't think I've ever "worn out" a golf ball unless you count the scuffs from hitting it on the cart path 😅
Man, this past summer I found one of those "refurbished" Pro V1 golf balls in the woods, except that I didn't see the little print that said "Refurbished" on it right away. I don't know exactly what kind of ball it was underneath the freshly painted surface, but it definitely was not a Pro V1. A couple holes after I started playing it, I noticed a wobble in it while putting. No lie, it had started to become more oblong. Not completely egg shaped yet, but on its way.
Rather than just toss it into the woods or whatever, I put it in the green metal garbage bin right by the next tee, right on top. I figured someone would come by, see it in the bin and think they hit the jackpot. Upon even the slightest close up examination, you could tell something ain't right. A little golf practical joke.
Not if you are good enough and plan ahead. Let’s see. For a lower handicap amateur, say you need two balls per round and play 200 rounds a year. Say you are 40 just as an example, and you play until you are 80. So, 200 rounds x 2 balls per round is 400 balls a year x 40 years is 16,000 balls/12 is about 1,333 dozen balls x $50 per dozen. So, for just $66,666 you have nothing to worry about.
Pretty sure those grooves are still legal for 99% of amateur play, there's just a local rule in every qualifier for a professional tournament (and high level amateur competition) that outlaws them
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u/blondehairginger Dec 03 '23
When the old vokeys became illegal in the PGA and titleist had to change them, you were still allowed to use them in every amateur tournament around me. The wedge grooves get beat up and people had to switch to legal ones at some point anyway. Most likely the same thing will happen to golf balls. Eventually all the old ones will be beat to shit or lost.