best ball in cold weather?

[ganjagolfer]

any ball that is the best? info and scientific analysis of why this ball is best will be appreciated

[cigarnut81]

Any ball keep warm in your pocket.

[Dub]

Ditto that....I have a butane "handwarmer" that I've used in the past...works pretty good.

The little handwarmer packs that you can buy at Walmart are more convenient, though.

[907golfer12]

My best bet would be a low compression ball, the first one that comes to my mind is the Nike Karma

[deronsizemore]

Do people seriously take this into consideration when playing? Trying to keep your ball warm?

I mean, it's proven that you lose some distance but it's what, maybe 5 yards? The average golfer isn't good enough to put the same swing on the ball consistently anyway which leads to a lot of poor contact and errant tee shots. How would you even know if you lost distance because your ball was cold or if it was because you nearly missed the ball and caught it on the heel?

[dragonflyin]

Do people seriously take this into consideration when playing? Trying to keep your ball warm?

Definitely, the weather pattern has taken a turn for the worse recent weeks and I've had to keep my golf balls and clubs in the house as opposed to the trunk of the car. On occasion I did not, it's quite a noticeable difference. I'd lose at least one club of distance in 50 degree weather, part of it is that overnight is much colder than when you're playing out on the course. It takes hours for the balls to "heat up".

If you just don't leave the balls out to freeze overnight, that'll dramatically decrease the amount of distance loss. FYI, I've also read somewhere that golf balls perform best in 80 degree weather. But who knows...

[deronsizemore]

Definitely, the weather pattern has taken a turn for the worse recent weeks and I've had to keep my golf balls and clubs in the house as opposed to the trunk of the car. On occasion I did not, it's quite a noticeable difference. I'd lose at least one club of distance in 50 degree weather, part of it is that overnight is much colder than when you're playing out on the course. It takes hours for the balls to "heat up".

I guess my thing is that if you're playing in cold weather, there's no way you're going to stop your balls and clubs from getting cold in a 5 hour round of golf so really, it's not worth putting much effort into keeping everything warm if you ask me. I played a round last year where it was 32 degrees Fahrenheit when we teed off on it's way to a high of 38 degrees and I didn't see much change in my distances.