pSince the beginning of golf, golf ball compression have been
widely debated and discussed among golfers. As technology have
advanced into the modern age, golf balls have become better than
before. Just through technology alone, the evolution of golf ball
has wiped out most of the hard core and old Balata wound golf ball
out of the market. Today, majority of the golf balls are soft core
low compression golf balls. Till then, golf ball compression really
mattered but now, it is no longer the case. br br Back then, if a
70 was put onto a golf ball, it would be termed as a womens golf
ball. Now, low compression golf balls take up majority of the
market. You can have 4 piece compression golf balls like Pro V1x in
the mid 90s and TP Red in the mid 80s. Compression numbers cannot
be used to determine your golf ball selection anymore. br br Golf
ball compression can now be generally differentiated into two
types. They are the core compression and the overall compression.
In general, core compression is normally the main reason for the
feel when you hit a driver on the golf ball. The reason is because
the club face fully compress the core upon impact and that is what
causes the feel on a full swing. br br For overall compression, it
refers to the amount of deformation undergone to the whole golf
ball when it is being subjected to a compressive force. This is
typically important in generating the feel, spin and also the
energy transfered from club face to golf ball.br br Taking a deeper
look, golf ball compression cannot be used to determine the feel of
the golf ball. Take the Wilson Staff Zip golf ball for example,
with a zero compression core, the golf ball feels completely
different from that of a Srixon Soft Feel. Both golf balls have a
golf ball compression of 55. Hence compression does affect feel but
it cannot be used to determine feel today. br br In fact, it is
used more in the lab to design the golf ball such as C.O.R, sound,
spin rates and velocity. It is more of the interaction of the
layers that produce and determine your feel than normal golf ball
compression.br br Let us not look just on the numbers but beyond
them to determine which golf ball suits you best. Every single
material that makes up the golf ball have its own property that
will contribute to the energy transfer, spin, feel, velocity,
launch angle etc. With the technology nowadays, multilayered golf
balls are used to control the deformation to push the feel,
velocity, spin, launch angle and other distance factors into
another level. It is indeed quite a revelation in todays
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