00:00Hello everyone, Mike Harris from Golf Monthly. You join me here at lovely West Hill Golf Club
00:10in Surrey on a very sunny afternoon and in this video I'm going to be asking should you be playing
00:17a yellow golf ball? The big thing for 2019, the big talking point is that Titleist have finally
00:24released a yellow Pro V1 and Pro V1X and we've got different models from say all the main manufacturers
00:31Strixen with their Z-Star, they do a yellow model. Callaway with the Chrome Soft, they do a yellow
00:38model as well. TaylorMade don't do their TP5 in the UK anyway in yellow but they do do Project A which
00:45is their sort of second tier urethane ball. So these days if you do want a yellow golf ball but you want
00:51to play a tour golf ball urethane covered, there are plenty of options out there. So let's get out
00:56on the golf course and see how the yellow balls perform both on their own and also in comparison
01:01to standard white golf balls.
01:07Okay, so we're going to do a little bit of a live on course test here. Got a yellow ball and a white ball. See if we can see much difference between the two when I hit drives, approaches and also on the green as well.
01:08Going to go with traditional first, going to go with the white ball.
01:22Okay, pop that one up a little bit. Yeah, I got it through the blue sky fine but when it starts, it goes to the blue sky.
01:28But when it starts, I can get the blue sky.
01:30I'm going to do a little bit of a red-courced test here. Got a yellow ball and a white ball.
01:35You can see if we can see much difference between the two when it hits drives approaches and also on the green as well.
01:37okay pop that one up a little bit yeah I've got it through the through the blue sky fine but when
01:51it started to drop down I felt I lost it a little bit there going back down through the tree line
01:57so next up the yellow ball
02:07wow I have to say that was a much better drive than the first one with the white ball but
02:16I really found it very very easy to track the flight of the yellow ball there at no point when
02:22it started dipping from its peak trajectory did I lose it like I did with the white one so
02:27that was quite interesting to see that let's see what it's like down on the fairway playing an
02:32approach shot okay so I just missed the fairway with the white ball I've got 180 yards be interesting
02:38to see this through very dappled you can see through very dappled light there a lot of shadows
02:43see how I pick up the flight of this
02:46yeah pretty good actually certainly saw it come down very well so no issues there with the
03:05with the white ball as it did have when the flight dropped with the drive so let's see how we go with
03:11the yellow ball okay so 15 20 yards further on with the yellow ball um stood over it in the
03:17shadow I actually really like uh looking at the yellow ball at a dress um don't know it feels
03:22don't know possibly look a little bit bigger a little bit more confidence in sparring anyway
03:26let's see how this one goes
03:28oh that's a good shot
03:37yeah uh very pleased with the outcome uh about pin high but again really found it easy to track the
03:46ball uh the flight of the ball there so at the moment yellow ball is definitely winning it for me
03:51so here we are up at the green uh white ball's just made the front edge left myself
03:55you know 40 foot putt up the hill um one of my impressions behind the ball well been looking at
04:02normally a white ball behind a putter head for a long time um looks it looks good as it ever did
04:08really uh got a new black putter so it's quite nice that contrast black and white
04:19now i've not i've certainly not given that enough but um yeah you know white ball behind the putter
04:25um looks very familiar anyway let's now see in a much better approach shot with my yellow ball let's
04:31see how that is
04:38so probably a 20 footer up the up the hill here
04:45yeah i really do like it behind the behind the ball really nice
04:48i really do like it behind the behind the ball really nice
05:09and a little tap in for par there
05:11we are asked the golf monthly social media audience so on twitter on instagram would you
05:19consider playing a yellow ball and it was very interesting across instagram and twitter it was
05:24almost exactly 60 saying yes and 40 saying no on twitter we had over 3 000 respondents in a 24-hour
05:33period to the poll very interesting to read some of the comments there about why you would or wouldn't
05:39play a yellow golf ball i think perhaps there's been a bit of a stigma that yellow golf balls are
05:44for higher handicappers who are worried about losing golf balls or maybe for golfers who are older whose
05:50eyesight isn't as good so we've come down to the fourth tee here at west hill lovely uh par three
05:55quite pretty tricky and it certainly is right into the sun as you can sort of see when i turn this
06:01way i've got the sun really in my face so i'm going to see if there's any difference between picking
06:05up the flight of the white ball or yellow ball interestingly we were just chatting
06:09to a couple of golfers out here who were asking what we were doing said we're doing a little
06:12yellow ball versus white ball test and i asked one of the guys would you ever play a yellow ball he was
06:17a uh a decent golfer watched him hit a couple of shots i would say you know single figure golfer and
06:22he said definitely not so uh and sort of i guess the information was that you know uh yellow balls were
06:29not for better golfers but he did acknowledge that he'd seen bubba uh using it at the waste management
06:34the yellow pro v1 so i don't know might be better perceptions might change uh after a while if you
06:40see guys on tour um using it
06:49yeah i actually found that was a white ball found that pretty um pretty easy to see i didn't hit it
07:07it wasn't directly into the sun um right hand side of the green i would think when we get up there
07:23you know i definitely i definitely think the yellow ball is easier to see i think when it goes
07:33into the sun it almost turns black um so again it makes it a little bit easier to pick up the flight
07:39off but to pretty i'd be very happy with those shots uh with a card in my hand so that was a
07:44really interesting experiment playing yellow golf ball against the white ball seeing how it looked
07:49down at address and also seeing the flight of it but what do you think let us know put a comment below
07:56let us know have you played a yellow golf ball before would you play a yellow golf ball now any
08:00particular will you be trying out title this new yellow pro v1 uh this year i'll pick a comment at
08:06random and i'll send you a dozen yellow golf balls just so you can do a bit of product validation
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08:22already and hit notifications so you see whenever we release one of our new gear videos but what about
08:29the verdict well as i said earlier at the start of the video my eyesight is not as good as it was when
08:35i was maybe in my sort of 20s even with glasses on and i have to say i definitely find yellow golf ball
08:41easier to pick out in the flight of the ball particularly i found today's obviously a lovely
08:47sunny day but in flat light i definitely find a yellow ball easier to pick out there when it's sort
08:54of dropping out of the sky at the top of its flight i quite like it addressed you know a lot of the modern
08:59clubs i've got a black headed driver and also a black headed putter i quite like that contrast between
09:05the yellow and the black at address don't find it off-putting at all i know some people
09:10are not keen on the look and there are lots of different finishes um of the different you know
09:15yellow golf balls some are sort of more that sort of chalky matte finish uh some are really sort of
09:20bright almost sort of pearlescent but i definitely think that if you um are looking for something a
09:26little bit different to help um pick up the uh flight of the golf ball that a yellow golf ball is
09:32certainly worth trying say bubba watson's been trying them out on tour i know that bubba's quite a
09:36quirky guy tries different things but i'm certainly i think going to be playing a few rounds with the
09:42yellow Titleist Pro V1X Pro V1X is a ball that i normally use so i'm looking forward to putting
09:47that in play this season and seeing how i go with it but for now from west hill it's goodbye
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