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've got it through the blue sky fine but when it starts going to go with the blue sky fine but when it starts going to get the blue sky off you're fine.
01:29Okay, so we're going to do a little bit of a big 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.
01:43okay pop that one up a little bit
01:47yeah i got it through the um through the blue sky fine but when it started to drop down
01:53i felt i lost it a little bit there going back down through the tree line so next up the yellow ball
02:09wow 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
02:21at no point when it started dipping from its peak trajectory did i lose it like i did with
02:25the white one so that was quite interesting to see that um let's see what it's like down on
02:31the fairway playing an approach shot okay so i just missed the fairway with the white ball
02:36i've got 180 yards be interesting to see this through very dappled you can see through very
02:41dappled light there a lot of shadows see how i pick up the flight of this
02:58yeah pretty good actually um certainly saw it come down very well so no issues there with the uh with
03:05the white ball as it did have when the flight dropped uh with the drive so let's see how we
03:10go with the 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 address um don't know it feels
03:23i don't know possibly look a little bit bigger a little bit more confidence inspiring anyway let's see
03:27how this one goes oh that's a good shot
03:40yeah i'm very pleased with the outcome 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 balls just made the front edge left myself
03:56you 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 as good as it ever did
04:08really uh got a new black putter so it's quite nice that contrast black and white
04:19no i've not i've certainly not given that enough but um yeah you know white ball behind the putter
04:26looks very familiar anyway let's now see in a much better approach shot with my yellow ball let's see how
04:31that is so 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
05:01and a little tap in for par there we asked the golf monthly social media audience so on twitter
05:17on instagram would you consider playing a yellow ball and it was very interesting across instagram
05:23and twitter it was almost exactly 60 saying yes and 40 saying no on twitter we had over 3 000
05:31respondents in a 24-hour period to the poll very interesting to read some of the comments there about
05:38why you would or wouldn't play a yellow golf ball i think perhaps there's been a bit of a stigma that
05:43yellow golf balls are for higher handicappers who are worried about losing golf balls or
05:47maybe for golfers who are older whose eyesight isn't as good so we've come down to the fourth
05:53tee here at west hill lovely uh par three quite pretty tricky and it certainly is right into the
05:58sun as you can sort of see when i turn this way i've got the sun really in my face so going to see
06:03if there's any difference between picking up the flight of the white ball or yellow ball interestingly
06:07we're just chatting uh to a couple of golfers out here who were asking what we're doing said we're
06:12doing a little yellow ball versus white ball test and i asked one of the guys would you ever
06:16play a yellow ball he was a uh a decent golfer watched him hit a couple of shots i would say
06:21you know single figure golfer and he said definitely not so uh and sort of i guess the
06:26information was that you know uh yellow balls were not for better golfers but he did acknowledge that
06:31he'd seen bubba uh using it at the waste management their yellow pro v1 so uh i don't know might be
06:37better perceptions might change uh after a while if you see guys on tour um using it
06:52uh yeah 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
07:22yeah i definitely i definitely think the yellow ball is easier to see i think when it goes into
07:33the sun it almost turns black um so again it makes it a little bit easier to pick up the flight of but
07:39two pretty i'd be very happy with those shots uh with a card in my hand so that was a really
07:44interesting experiment playing uh yellow golf ball against the white ball seeing how it looked down at
07:50a dress uh and also seeing the flight of it but what do you think let us know put a comment below
07:55uh let us know have you played a yellow golf ball before would you play a yellow golf ball now any
08:01particular 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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08:29but what about the verdict well as i said earlier at the start of the video my eyesight's not as good
08:34as it was when i was maybe in my sort of 20s even with glasses on and i have to say i definitely find
08:40yellow golf ball easier to pick out in the flight of the ball particularly i found today's obviously a
08:47lovely sunny day uh but in flat light i definitely find a yellow ball easier to pick out um there
08:54when it's sort of dropping out of the sky at the top of its flight i quite like it addressed you know
08:59a lot of the modern clubs i've got a black headed driver and also a black headed putter i quite like
09:03that contrast between the yellow and the black at address don't find it off-putting at all i know
09:09some people are not keen on the look and there are lots of different finishes um of the different you
09:15you know yellow golf balls some are sort of more of that sort of chalky matte finish uh some are
09:20really sort of bright almost sort of pearlescent but i definitely think that if you um are looking
09:25for something a little bit different to help um pick up the uh flight of the golf ball that a yellow
09:31golf ball is certainly worth trying to say bubba watson's been trying them out on tour i know that
09:36bubba's quite a quirky guy tries different things but i'm certainly i think going to be playing
09:41a few rounds with the yellow Titleist Pro V1X Pro V1X is a ball that i normally use so
09:46i'm looking forward to putting that in play this season and seeing how i go with it
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