00:05Hello 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
00:44which
00:45is their sort of second tier urethane ball. So these days if you do want a yellow golf ball but
00:51you 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.
01:19Okay so we're going to do a little bit of a live on course test here. Got a yellow ball
01:24and a white ball,
01:25see if we can see much difference between the two when I hit drives approaches and also on the green
01:31as well. Going to go with, going to go traditional first, going to go with the white ball.
01:43Okay pop that one up a little bit. Yeah I got it through the blue sky fine but when it
01:51started to
01:52drop down I felt I lost it a little bit there going back down through the tree line. So next
01:59up the yellow ball.
02:11Wow I have to say that was a much better drive than the first one with the white ball but
02:16I really found
02:17it very very easy to track the flight of the yellow ball there. At no point when it started dipping
02:23from
02:23its peak trajectory did I lose it like I did with the white one. So that was quite interesting to
02:28see
02:29that. Let's see what it's like down on the fairway playing an approach shot. Okay so I just missed the
02:34fairway with the white ball. I've got 180 yards be interesting to see this through very dappled
02:40you can see through very dappled light there a lot of shadows. See how I pick up the flight of
02:45this.
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 I did have when the flight dropped uh with the drive. So let's see how we
03:10go with the
03:11yellow ball. Okay so 15-20 yards further on with the yellow ball um stood over it in the shadow.
03:17I
03:17actually really like uh looking at the yellow ball at a dress um don't know it feels I don't know
03:23possibly look a little bit bigger a little bit more confidence in sparring. Anyway let's see how this one goes.
03:35Oh that's a good shot.
03:40Yeah very pleased with the outcome about pin high but again really found it easy to track the ball
03:46the 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
03:55you 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
04:08did
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
04:25um looks very familiar anyway let's now see in a much better approach shot with my yellow ball let's see
04:31how that is
04:38so probably a 20 footer up the up the hill here
04:44yeah i really do like it behind the behind the ball really nice
04:57i really do like it behind the behind the ball really nice
05:09and a little tap in for par there
05:13we asked the golf monthly social media audience so on twitter on instagram would you consider
05:19playing a yellow ball and it was very interesting across instagram and twitter it was almost exactly
05:2560 percent saying yes and 40 saying no on twitter we had over 3 000 respondents in a 24-hour
05:33period to
05:34the poll very interesting to read some of the comments there about why you would or wouldn't play
05:40a yellow golf ball i think perhaps there's been a bit of a stigma that yellow golf balls are for
05:44higher 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
05:55par three quite pretty tricky and it certainly is right into the sun as you can sort of see
06:00when i turn this way i've got the sun really in my face so you're going to see if there's
06:04any
06:04difference between picking up the flight of the white ball or yellow ball interestingly we're just
06:08chatting to a couple of golfers out here who were asking what we're 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
06:17he was
06:17a a decent golfer watched him hit a couple of shots i would say you know single figure golfer and
06:22he
06:22said definitely not so uh and sort of i guess the information was that you know 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
07:01yeah actually found that was a white ball found that pretty um pretty easy to see i didn't hit it
07:07wasn't directly into the sun um right hand side of the green i would think when we get up there
07:27yeah 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
07:38flight of but
07:39two pretty i'd be very happy with those shots uh with a card in my hand so that was a
07:44really
07:44interesting experiment playing uh yellow golf ball against the white ball seeing how it looked down at
07:50address uh and also seeing the flight of it but what do you think uh let us know put a
07:54comment below
07:55uh let us know have you played a yellow golf ball before would you play a yellow golf ball now
08:00any
08:01particular will you be trying out title this new yellow pro v1 uh this year i'll pick a comment at
08:07random 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's not as good as it
08:34was when
08:35i was maybe in my sort of 20s even with glasses on and i have to say i definitely find
08:40yellow 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
08:54dropping out of the sky at the top of its flight i quite like it addressed you know a lot
08:59of the
08:59modern clubs i've got a black-headed driver and also a black-headed putter i quite like that contrast
09:04between the yellow and the black at address don't find it off-putting at all i know some people are
09:10not
09:10keen on the look and there are lots of different finishes um of the different you know yellow golf ball
09:16some are sort of more that sort of chalky matte finish uh some are really sort of bright almost sort
09:21of
09:21per lesson but i definitely think that if you um are looking for something a little bit different
09:27to help um pick up the uh flight of the golf ball that a yellow golf ball is certainly worth
09:32trying
09:33to say bubba watson's been trying them out on tour i know that bubba's quite a quirky guy tries different
09:38things but i'm certainly i think going to be playing a few rounds with the yellow titleist pro v1x
09:44probably one x is a ball that i normally use so i'm looking forward to putting that in play this
09:48season
09:48and seeing how i go with it but for now from west hill it's goodbye
09:55you
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