Oversize Balls

[iacas]

Looking through our search results (what people search for to end up at The Sand Trap), I saw someone found their way here, to an article on oversize golf balls . Remember those? The Magna, etc.?

So I asked the question in the poll above. I used them, never for long, and mostly as a curiosity. It's pretty weird how, even without another golf ball as a reference, you could spot the oversized balls.

Heck, my wife says she can tell right away.

[Rafcin]

I did use Magna and honestly - didn't see a difference....

[mediaguru]

Those balls had a bad rap around these parts because the "yuckiest" town near here was called Magna. Kind of like our version of Compton...

Never played top flites. Too hard.

[aceadair]

Havent really thought about using any.

[Donald MacKenzie]

I got a dozen free at a media outing. They were Top-Flites, period. As Golf Digest famously wrote when the Magna came out, "If you want to reduce hooks and slices, practice a little more." Man, was TF peeved...

[Chicagoland Nick]

I used the Magnas, and then used whatever their successors are, the 2000 and then the 3000. They did make a small difference over other cheap balls, but probably not over expensive balls.

I've since switched away to a Wilson ball, as I wasn't happy with the 3000 series.