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The balls at tge local driving ranges here aare dead. A 5 iron for me on the course carries 190 to 210 and at the range I am lucky if I get 160-170 and the marks they leave on the clubs is a pain to clean. Testing my new driver I was carrying 200 easy but who knows what it will be on the course. Do these dead balls affect flight path and launch aswell ? How to get rid of the nasty impact marks they leave ?

In the :tmade: san clemente 14 way bag: :ping: G30 Stiff shaft driver 9deg upped to 10 :tmade: RocketBallz 4-sw Steel Stiff Shaft :callaway: 50 degree wedge :wilson_staff: 58 deg Wedge :cleve: Center shaft putter :titleist: Balls & :footjoy: BOA shoes

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Yeah, range balls are built for durability and don't have the distance of regular balls. At the range I go to they don't have enough space (housing development behind) so they have 80% flight balls and a net. So your range balls may be purposely deadened to limit flight.

In general I use range work for working on some aspect of my swing and ball striking, not gauging distances. When I find a real ball in the mix I use that with an PW to see what my adjustment should be up through the progression.

Why do they call golf "golf"?  Because all the other four letter words were taken.

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Thanks. I was working on my driver ( first time with the new one. Old one was ill fitted and a POS) found no new balls in the mix. How does one gauge distances ?

In the :tmade: san clemente 14 way bag: :ping: G30 Stiff shaft driver 9deg upped to 10 :tmade: RocketBallz 4-sw Steel Stiff Shaft :callaway: 50 degree wedge :wilson_staff: 58 deg Wedge :cleve: Center shaft putter :titleist: Balls & :footjoy: BOA shoes

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