For high handicap golfers, losing an exorbitant amount of golf balls makes your already expensive hobby even pricier. After all, unless you have particularly deep pockets, even public courses charge an arm and leg to the casual golfer once you throw in the cart fees. Since a lot of beginners, heck, even a lot of experienced golfers, simply aren’t as good as they’d like to be, they tend to shell out cash on expensive golf balls that won’t last them longer than a week or two. A lot of golfers don’t even really know the difference between the types of balls available to them, instead opting for a high priced brand name that may or may not suit their individual needs.
Golfers have a choice between two different basic golf ball compositions in today’s market: two-piece and multilayered (sometimes referred to as three-piece) balls. Two-piece balls often come at a cheaper price than their more complex counterparts, with a dozen starting at prices as cheap as $10 a dozen, but ranging as high as $30. The two-piece design offers less spin than the multilayered alternative, but for high handicappers this is not necessarily an issue. More golf balls are lost off the tee than at any other point on the course, with many amateur golfers using the occasional mulligan to make up for an OB shot. The lower spin rates will actually help to keep your ball straighter down the fairway, limiting both hook and slice. When you do lose a ball to the woods or drink, and it’s inevitable you will lose more than one, cheaper two-piece balls will also reduce the mental stress of your thinning wallet. There’s just little to no reason for a less-skilled golfer to spend money on a high-cost sleeve of golf balls, when they don’t have the necessary skill set to utilize the ball’s enhanced features. Once you’ve been playing for a while and can consistently hit greens and fairways, then and only then it might be time to upgrade your golf ball.
