Golf Balls for Trip Weekends
Water, thick rough, and skins pressure eat sleeves. First trips especially: pack 2–3 dozen and stop borrowing.
What Separates Good from Great
Distance vs feel
Mid-handicaps lose more strokes to water and fat contact than to spin charts. A ball you can find and afford to lose beats a tour ball you play scared.
Soft vs firm greens
Soft greens hold a mid-spin ball. Firm resort greens want something that doesn't explode off the face and then release into the next zip code.
Color visibility
Yellow or a TruTrack line in Bermuda rough and against a white sky. White Pro V1s in thick stuff is how you donate a sleeve before the turn.
Dozen pricing for groups
If four guys buy a couple sleeves at the shop, you will spend more than a dozen bought before the trip. Price the dozen. Stop borrowing.
The Call
Soft, straight distance ball—cheap enough to not cry over water balls.
Urethane mid-handicap favorite with alignment/roll feedback for weekend scoring.
Tour urethane standard—bring 2–3 dozen if the crew plays every day.
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