Amazon Core Soft Golf Ball vs. PRO V1 Review!

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0:00 Intro
0:36 Packaging
1:23 Golf Ball
2:25 Lob Wedge 50 Yard Shot
3:22 100 Yard Shot
4:25 PW
5:04 7 Iron
6:16 4 Iron
7:02 Driver
8:48 Putting
9:17 Main Concern
9:48 Durability
10:05 Final Thoughts

Amazon just launched a golf ball and it is too cheap to ignore. For $24 for two dozen golf balls American, okay, $29.43 here in Canada. You’re paying a dollar a golf ball in the US. You’re paying $120 per golf ball in Canada. It is just too cheap to ignore and we had to put it through the paces. So, I tested in the simulator. I tested on the course. We’re going to give you all the data today to see how it stacks up and you know if this is going to be of incredible value to us golfers because sometimes you just need cheap golf balls to launch into oblivion and I think these might be perfect for that. So first thing in an effort to keep things cheap packaging is very cheap and I appreciate that. You know what if you’re going to sell me cheap golf balls I don’t need all the frilly things. Don’t tell me about the performance. Give me nothing. Give me a plain cardboard box which is what they did. They just slapped the Amazon tracking thing on there. I tried to peel it off to see if it gave me any information about the golf ball. It really didn’t, but it just comes to you very simple. The next thing is like the actual sleeves of the golf ball. So, you get, you know, your four sleeves per pack and it is just a plain white box, which again, I appreciate. Keep the cost down. If I’m going to buy a cheap golf ball, I don’t want to have to spend more money on packaging. I don’t care. I want to hit these into the woods. I don’t need fancy packaging to do that. So, I appreciate this. Then if you actually take a look at the golf ball itself, it’s pretty cool. It looks actually a lot better than I thought it would. It like kind of reminds me of like a Callaway super soft kind of feel. Like the cover is like quite shiny. It comes also in a yellow as well. So if you know there’s the high visibility version. It’s a low compression golf ball. It says on the website. I’ve listed the features here. I would say this is probably very similar to a Callaway Super Soft would be my gut instinct. Again, not knowing much about these just from my first initial kind of look, that’s what it is. But as you can hear, very soft and you will see that through the testing. These are incredibly soft golf balls. So, from a first impression standpoint, honestly, it looks great. It doesn’t feel like overly cheap in terms of the golf ball itself, but I appreciate the cheap packaging to drive the cost down. Now, ultimately, does it perform well enough that we can put it in play? So, I brought it into the simulator and I tested it against a Prov1 because that’s what everyone knows. It’s not the ball I use, but it’s just the industry standard. So, it’ll just make comparing the numbers a little easier for you to manage. So, the first shot I tested it with was a 50 yard kind of nippy shot, right? This is just like just to see control. And the glaring thing off the hop is spin because what you don’t expect from a cheap golf ball is premium spin around the greens. And that’s what we see here. There is a pretty significant spin difference between the Prov1 and the Amazon Golf Ball. And that’s just a result of again it’s not necessarily a premium cover. It, you know, it’s probably only dual layer. That’s just what it is. Now, when I hit it, it felt incredibly soft. It felt good off the face and I actually brought it outside and hit some shots around the green. And again, do I feel like I have as much control as I do with my more premium golf ball? No. But can I play golf with it? Absolutely. And so again, for the price, yeah, you can play golf with that. It’s totally fine. Then I brought it up to a 100 yard shot cuz again, want to gauge spin, want to gauge control with wedges. As you start to kind of give it a little more speed, what happens? And again, it’s about a,200 RPM difference in spin between the Prov1 versus the Corsoft. And that’s again to be expected. Um, ball speed was the same. And that was actually kind of cool. The other thing I did notice was that the Corsoft did launch a little higher. And you can see it here in the data. It’s about 2° higher in terms of launch. So, it launched higher with less spin. Uh, and then dispersion wise, it was a little more wild. it. You could see, you know, my Prov1 dispersion a little tighter, which is in the blue. And everything you see here, guys, blue is the Prov1 and red is the Amazon ball, which I realize I screwed up because Amazon colors are blue. And so, I apologize. That’s just my bad. But, as you can see from the dispersion, the Prov1 just again is a little tighter, which to be expected, but could I play golf with this? Yeah, I could play golf with this. The next one we moved up to is pitching wedge. So, this is about 145 yard shot for me. And again, spin is the big difference. There’s about a 800 RPM difference between the Prov1 and the Amazon, which again to be expected, right? There’s 1 mile per hour more ball speed with the Prov1. Launch was actually the same with this, which I thought was interesting. And then if you look at dispersion, again, similar story. The Pro1 is just tighter and the misses with this are just a little more wild. So, if I was going to play competitive round, this is where I start to go, okay, like if I’m trying to score, this dispersion might give me a little bit of hesitation. Right now, next up is we have seven iron. It’s about 180ish yard shot for me. Again, another big glaring thing is spin. About 1,200 RPM difference here. Ball speed was about another mile per hour of ball speed. There was also about two degrees difference in launch. But the most glaring difference, and this is where the spin started to get a little more magnified, there was a 9 yard carry difference between this and the Prov1. And it’s just because there like I could feel it off the face, it was so soft that when I like really hit one, it went. My spin rate here, I only had one ball spin above 5,000 with my seven iron, which is just tough to control. But if you crunch one, it is going to fly on you. And that leads to, if you look at the dispersion, the again, the Amazon ball, just a little wider dispersion, just a little more sketchy. Okay. Could I play golf with it? Yeah, I could play golf with it. If I was going to play in a scramble and I needed to nuke the ball and I just got to be the fun guy, like absolutely hammering it. Perfect. Probably would be a great ball for that just to see what would happen. Now, let’s move into the forearm. Okay, so with the 4 iron, this is again very interesting and very similar story. 4,000 RPM with the Prov1 and 3,300 RPMish with the Amazon ball. So, a 700 RPM difference and about a 2 m perph ball speed difference, which as you start to hit the ball harder, that’s going to be more important. Um, launch was 2°. So there was again like you’re launching it higher with this which I guess if you struggle with launch that can work. This only had a 5 yard carry difference versus my seven irons. I think with the spin being a little closer I just didn’t see as glaring of a difference. Whereas with my seven when it it just felt like it was popping off the face and going significantly further. All right. Now driver. Now I didn’t unfortunately I cracked my driver recently so I didn’t have my driver with me. I had to borrow buddies. So take these numbers with a slight grain of salt cuz this wasn’t my club that I’m used to hitting. What I kind of expected from this was a bit of an inverse from what I saw with the irons and wedges. Typically, with a cheaper ball, you’re going to see less spin and performance off the irons, and then you’re going to see more spin off the driver and less speed. And that’s exactly what we saw here. Now, the spin difference wasn’t incredibly drastic, but I did get one of the Amazon balls over 3,000 RPM, and my lowest ball with the Amazon ball was 2,300. So, you know, about 200 RPMs difference in spin, about a 3 m per hour ball speed difference, but there was a 9y difference in carry. And you’ll see also with dispersion, which again, take it with a grain of salt because this wasn’t my rig. The one thing I did notice with the Amazon ball is that I just started to lose them way more to the right than I did with the Prov1. Pro one, if if anything, I was able to hit it like kind of straighter or slight pull. And with the Amazon ball, it just kept kind of soft and to the right. Soft and to the right. So, all in all, none of this is necessarily shocking data, right? Something you’d expect from a nonpremium golf ball is that it’s going to spin a little less and not maybe perform as well off the irons and then it might not give you that extra pop you’re looking off the driver. Now, if you’re someone that puts a lot of spin on your irons, maybe this could work for you. Maybe actually having a little less spin might work. For someone like me, I tend to strip spin off the ball. So, I actually need something that can pick up a couple more RPMs. Otherwise, I start to lose control. But again, for the price, there’s nothing glaring in here where I go, don’t buy this. Like, there’s just no reason not to evaluate this as a potential purchase. It’s just too cheap to to to not try, right? And then that leads me to, okay, putting brought it outside, took some putts with it. It feels great. Like it feels super soft even off the irons and everything. Like it just feels super soft. It doesn’t feel premium, but doesn’t feel bad. And like off the irons when you really hit one, like it feels like butter cuz it’s just there’s nothing to it. As you can see, if I bounce it off the counter here, it’s like like you know, it’s not making a ton of noise, right? So it’s it’s good to go. What I do find interesting though is that again I took it out and also hit some wedges in the greens and I did notice that like a couple shots where I clipped it pretty good and this ball would have landed and pulled back and it kind of landed and released and especially with the greens being wet today that just wouldn’t happen. So if you’re somebody that’s like looking for a little bit of control and some check with your golf ball you’re just not going to get that with this. But again, it’s just too cheap to ignore. It’s too cheap to ignore. And durability. So, if I look at the golf ball, this is the one that I used for the test. There’s just like a slight scuff to it, but it’s it’s good. like like for again for the price, you know, if you just are looking to have a golf ball that you can just load up in your bag, not have to care, and just hit it as hard and as far as you want, why not? It feels great off the putter, feels great off the wedges, it performs good enough. It’s not doing anything that I’m like, “Oh, I I couldn’t get around a golf course.” Would I necessarily put this in play if I was competing? No. But if I’m playing for fun and I just want something cheap and I don’t want to care, 100%. Where I see myself buying these is that here in the Pacific Northwest when we play kind of golf from now all through the winter, it is like soggy conditions and there’s a ton of leaves and I don’t want to hit my premium golf balls all the time because I I don’t want to lose them in the leaves or if they get embedded. This is a perfect substitute. I used to buy noodles or titleless True Fields, but for this price point, why wouldn’t I just buy this and play these in the winter? So, all in all, I think these are too cheap to ignore. For 24 golf balls, a dollar a golf ball, this is just crazy value. And for contrast, in Canada, right, we pay $50 for 24 of the Kirkland golf balls, which is still good value. But to pay $29 Canadian, so $120 a golf ball for 24 golf balls. Golf is so expensive. Sometimes you just need a golf ball that you don’t have to care about. You can put it in play, get around, and just have a good time. I think this is great. They haven’t wasted any money on the excess packaging. They haven’t wasted on anything that doesn’t matter. And this is a golf ball that can get you around and just it does what it needs to do. Okay. Would I put it in play to compete? No. Would I put it in play to have fun? Absolutely. And I think that is a huge win. So, let me know in the comments below what your thoughts are on the golf ball. Let me know if you have any questions. I appreciate you watching. Like and subscribe if you haven’t already. And I’ll catch you on the next one. Peace.