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Top Flite Gamer Ball
I occassionally go into my local pro shop and ask one of the clerks “what’s hot?”
This time, he pointed out a display for the new Top Flite Gamer ball. “We can’t keep these on the shelves,” he said. “They’re not like the old rock-flites.”
Indeed. The Gamer is part of Top Flite’s new Dimple In Dimple line, that’s supposed to offer better aerodynamics than traditional designs. Not surprisingly, Top Flite now is owned by Callaway, which produces another unusual dimple design with its hexes.
The Gamer is a three piece ball, with all of the usual characteristics: a soft, thin outer cover for feel, a boundary layer for iron distance, and a core designed to offer lower spin off the driver.
The clerk claimed that players are dropping the Pro V for this one. I don’t quite believe that, but it’s an interesting thought—kind of like the fervor that sprung up around the Precept Lady several years ago.
So I asked if he could get me a box.
No luck. They’re out.
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A few weeks back, I wanted to try this ball, but the golf store here was also sold out. I got the same line that people were forgoing the ProV1s for this ball. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. I heard the same thing last year on the Top Flite D2-Feel (green box). I played with the Feel, and it is not a ProV1, not even close. It did seem to be popular for a few months, but now all I find on my golf course again is ProV1s.
In a related note, I played a few rounds with my remaining HX Hot Bite (Callaway green) balls, this weekend at a Robert Trent Jones Alabama course. All I really did was confirm what I have written before on here- it is a fantastic playing ball (maybe the best out there for me) with the absolute worse durability. I did play one ball for about 25 holes before I lost it, but another had to get tossed after one cart path. One seemed to get torn up just being hit out of the sand.
On the last day of our three day trip to the RTJ- Muscle Shoals courses, I posted a low score of 92 on the RTJ - Fighting Joe, which is a very difficult course. This tied my lifetime low, and due to a horrible distraction on a short and easy par 3, I blew a 90 (a helicopter was 150 yards overhead photographing the course from what we could surmise)- I got a double bogey there, and then I could have still had a 90, if I didn’t get greedy on the very difficult 17th hole, which I could have just taken it easy for a 6, instead I blew it up with a triple bogey 8. Anyhow, I played the round with the good old HX Hot, which performed well, spun enough to stop when I needed it to. I had more GIR than any time I can remember, and I also had a lot of sand saves, including one where I went 250 from the tee to a fairway bunker, 140 more to a greenside bunker, 20yards out to 1 yard from the pin and in for a par.
Posted by martin on 06/25
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