Penta TP5

[k-troop]

Seems like there have been a few Penta threads, but I couldn't find the one I was looking for.  So I've been playing Penta TP for a little over a year, and I recently bought 5 dozen of the Penta TP5s.  Played them this weekend for the first time, as I finally went through all of my Penta TPs.

Holy cow.  This ball is long.

Anyone else notice a significant distance increase between the Penta TP and TP5?  I was airmailing greens all weekend.  Probably 10 yards longer on my irons.  My normal 4-iron is about 205; I had 210 into a gentle breeze to a back pin, which my ball waved at on the way over.  8-iron (normally about 162-yards) flew over the back of the 2nd, probably a 170 yard carry (lased 158 to a front/middle pin).  And this just kept happening yesterday and today.  I've never hit so many flop shots from over the green before.

[cipher]

I have been playing the TP5 and the original ones this year mainly.  I also played the original most of last season.  I have not noticed much of a difference.  I have been hitting them longer, but I believe it is more because of some swing changes that I have made after taking some evolvr lessons.  Before the changes I was hitting them them about same.  I am curious to hear what others think though.  Was it any unusual day weather wise?

[k-troop]

Not an unusual day, per se.  It's Hawaii, so the weather is nearly always the same:  80 degrees, partly cloudy and breezy.  Winds were very quiet yesterday, and what little wind there was came out of the west, so that was unusual--but not in a way that would affect the ball.

I played 2 rounds, Saturday and Sunday, at two different courses.  Both are courses I play regularly, so I know pretty much every approach shot, which ones play a little longer, a little shorter, etc, and I have a laser.

I hit 16 iron shots yesterday.  8 of them were long, typically about 8 yards.  4 were more-or-less on the number, but all were expected to come up a little short.  The other 4 were mis-hits.

It was exactly the same on Saturday, except I think I hit only 3 shots pin-high:  1 was in-between clubs, and I went with the shorter one to avoid trouble long, and the other 2 were mis-hit short irons that still found the middle of the green.

[golfman15]

Honestly the tp5 is way to hard to be a tour ball

[golfman15]

I've been playing the Pentas since they came out I loved the spin I was getting but there was a driver problem but the tp5 fixed that problem but lost most of the spin I was very disappointed I loved the Pentas but now I'm forced to play a prov1