Wondering if you should buy premium golf balls? Stick around until the end to see the results from this ProV1x Left Dash vs a generic range ball test! The results might surprise you!
what is going on guys welcome back to
the channel thanks for tuning on in got
an interesting one here today I was at
the driving range a little while ago and
I was hitting range balls hit a good
ball speed number and I thought I wish I
knew what that might have been with a
left Dash I figure it could have hit a
record well today you saw the thumbnail
you saw the title we are going to try
and figure that out we’re going to hit
some shots with a typical range ball we
got a tailor made range ball it is
pretty much brand new the range I hit at
has brand new balls and then we’ve got
some brand new prov1 left Dash is the
fastest ball in golf let’s hit a few of
each shots and check out the differences
let’s get right into it okay so we’ve
got two different Club settings here
we’ve got a prov1 and a range ball both
with the same head and shaft combo so
we’re going to start things off with our
range ball um Club selection we’re going
to make the range a little bit longer go
right there 418 Ys I don’t think I’m
going to need that for a range Ball but
um we’ve got it up there in case the
prov1 is hot um I’m not going to be
swinging super fast the whole goal of
this I think if the average golfer can
take something from this they can see
what the difference is really between a
range ball and a good quality ball like
a prov1 left Dash the fastest ball in
golf well if I’m swinging and hitting
you know 190s ball speed that’s not what
a lot of people can do so we’ll try and
like I don’t know keep it 160 ball speed
we’ll figure it out as as we go uh there
is another option on the gc3 software
standard ball premium ball or range ball
we’ll do a little bonus at the end cuz
I’ve never actually personally even
messed around with that I’ve never
clicked that button I just know it
exists so we got the range ball we’re
going to hit three shots or so with it
first and then jump into the prov1
mostly looking at ball speed for this
but also spin rate um and then I guess
carry in total so um let’s just try and
hit like kind of a smoothie to kick
things off
here okay little block I struck it well
though it was pretty well centered up um
I want to say that’s like a 160 it I
think I’m correct anyway maybe I have
kind of lost what slower ball speeds
mean
um oh never mind okay I went 171 with
that with the range ball on our first
swing so 171 ball speed spin was $24.99
honestly I didn’t actually look at that
shot other than it just blocking like a
few degrees at a 2.7 degree push that’s
a a really good ball so so far the range
ball no complaints let’s hit another one
try and hit the draw to bring it back to
the right maybe take a bit of that spin
off
there we go pretty much exactly what I
called again I’m not trying to swing out
of my shoes here I’m trying to keep
every swing as consistent as I can for
the purpose of the test um if I’m
swinging as fast as I can I’m not going
to find the center I’m going to hit
spinny shots we’re going to have M hits
so 2150 on the spin of that 172 ball
speed um that’s just a really good golf
shot we got 315 carry and a
344 total so I mean that thing was
really well optimized for how I I’m
going to again a 1.41 smash Factor um
again when I’m like speed training or if
I’m doing actual tests it’s rare to see
a any like honestly 137 to 139 is like
what feels good when I have four
stickers
okay let’s hit one more here that’ll
give us our three and then we’ll uh
switch out to The provy One
okay caught one
skinny low heel so spin especially on a
range ball should jump up a good margin
so yeah we lost like 30 yards of
distance just from hitting that one
skinny but let’s take a look at our ball
speed and everything here so gc3 come
on um 167 so yeah we dropped a few miles
an hour um and efficiency went down to
1.38 um 286 carry 308 total 35 99 spin
so that’s a pretty like I know I thinned
it right when I hit it but if I thinned
a ball I would normally play I don’t
think that would jump up to 3,600 RPM so
I think a range ball if this is just a
guess we’ll find out but a range ball is
going to penalize you more on thin shots
than a premium ball I think we will find
that out though so uh okay so we’ve hit
three that are all acceptable golf shots
I would say I mean one skinny one one
push and one perfect tight draw so we’ve
got those three let’s switch out to our
provie one left Dash pretty well brand
new we’re going to keep the same te
height try and do the same swing let’s
get into the GC
software and switch them around
okay Prov
one
okay so this shot Tracer should be a
different
color let’s try and put the exact same
swing on it nothing
different hit a golf
shot I don’t think I could replicate the
swing much better that
really felt as similar as I could
honestly make it
guys I think I caught a little low heel
so we’ll see the last one was 3600 RPM
on a low heel spin shot this one I did
the same exact
thing and let’s find out what was our
spin rate
3450 wow okay so honestly way closer
than I thought it was going to be to the
range Ball even though I knew I hit that
one spinny as soon as it left the face I
figured it would be
28 2900 at most so we’re only 200 RPM
off on the spin of a prov1 left Dash and
a range ball on similar struck shots um
now that one the club speed it picked up
about 2 miles an hour faster um but the
and the ball speed was like one one or
two miles hour faster so again it’s I’m
a human being I can’t swing the exact
same every single time so you know
trying to swing you know I have to have
a variance of a few miles an hour here
um yeah let’s let’s try and hit one to
have like my normal prototypical shot
shape if I can hit that draw then we can
compare it to that other one but let’s
uh let’s poke it out
there another low skinny heel job so I’m
not doing us any favors here for the
prov1
brand that one I can’t really compare to
any of the range ball shots cuz that was
for sure my worst struck ball yet
um yeah see efficiency down to 135 and
down to 160 ball speed so a huge M hit
um that one we’re going to do a
throwaway I’m going to hit a fourth shot
so this will be my third let’s see if we
can hit a better hit a better shot so
far I mean off the face they really
don’t feel any
different that’s weird I don’t feel like
I caught that one that spinny and it’s
spinning I hit it a little low but I
didn’t hit it Healy and uh I must have
had an open face cuz that’s why it
blocked and then
faded um let’s see what was our ball
speed there one
73 and we saw spin 3200 that’s
interesting our spin on a range ball and
a prov1 left Dash are like similar
that’s so weird uh left Dash is
obviously faster though because a m hit
so far on the left Dash is my fastest
ball speed that I put up and I Center
punched one of those range ball ones
we’ll find out this range ball one here
I think that was my second range ball
shot and that was center punch punched
so we’ll see what the ball speed
differences
are let me hit one more hopefully I can
center punch a prov1 left Dash and then
we could have an accurate
comparison yep and I
did another wide open face I’m so bad at
the game um but it was hit right in the
middle um okay that one Club speed red
124 so I did accidentally swing a tiny
bit faster but ball speed jumped up a
ton oh Mylanta 178
so I could do the math I’ll do the math
in post and I’ll put it up here on a
percentage basis now the results are
pretty crazy um I’m surprised I’m pretty
shocked uh so let’s walk through it
together so three range balls we
averaged 169.99
three prov1 left dashes we averaged
173.04 and 170 you know it’s a 4 M hour
faster ball well is it CU on the club
speed end of things I accidentally I’m a
human I can’t always swing the exact
same speed I swung 2 point uh something
miles an hour faster on uh the prov1
left Dash balls just by accident again
not meaning to 2.3 M hour faster so if
we go back to the ball speed um and
times it by our efficiency if I swung
2.3 miles hour faster sorry I’m just
doing the math as I’m doing this 2.3
times our average efficiency on the
Range ball which was 1.4 *
1.4 that equals
3.22 so had I swung the exact same speed
on the range balls as I did the prov1
left dashes we should have seen 3.22
extra miles an hour of ball speed on the
Range balls so
3.22 + 170 equal
17322 milph of ball
speed so now looking at it had I swung
the exact same speeds we would have
generated
173.04 point9
with the prov1 left Dash so it is $7 a
golf ball and it’s the hottest ball in
golf it’s the fastest ball you can buy
and it is only 0.7 miles an hour faster
than a range ball what was more shocking
is the fact that the range ball is the
lower spinning golf ball on average um I
know I did hit I hit one Healy one with
the provy one I hit one good one but
yeah the good one I hit I was super
happy with how it came off 349 RPM of
Spin and my favorite shot with the range
ball 2150 why is a range ball spinning
at a th000 RPM less than a prov1 left
dash off of a driver that’s silly to me
I mean maybe I don’t know I mean
obviously the Prov one left Dash is used
for golf as well where you need to spin
it on the greens I get that um but I’m
sheerly looking at this from the fastest
ball in golf perspective to look at like
what’s going to net us the longest
yardage what’s the furthest ball you can
hit So speaking to distance our average
Carry On The Range ball was 306 yards
for a total of 331 yards our average
carry on the provy one left Dash 314 to
336 so despite not really being any
faster and it being a spinni or golf
ball somehow it traveled further um it
also I guess maybe the launch
the launch angle that doesn’t really
have much to do with the ball itself
necessarily that’s how I impact it and
where it hits on the face and my attack
angle and Club delivery there’s lots of
variables that can kind of go into this
stuff guys but um so far very
interesting results to see I mean it’s
no difference in speed really uh it’s
spinni but yeah you do obviously pick up
you know about 10 yards of carry um but
then due to the spin we didn’t get that
much roll out with the uh the left Dash
um so the roll and total were only 5
yards apart Let’s uh let’s go back to
hit a couple shots let’s actually select
the ball in the software of gc3 and see
if that gets any differences okay guys
let’s uh take a look at this further so
let’s select our range ball Club again
we’ve got that selected and I’ve gone in
and typed in or not typed in I just
selected range ball on that so I don’t
know if that’s going to really I don’t
know what that could mean for a
difference I I might have to Google that
maybe I should have done that before
just filming a YouTube video on it um
like I know trackman has an Optimizer is
this an Optimizer to tell me you know
hey it’s a range Ball but here’s what it
would have been if you were hitting a
good ball let’s find out we are hitting
a range
ball I hate the fade that I’m hitting
right now it’s just I can’t Dan seeing a
ball go from right to left it’s so
frustrating
um I hit it a little Healy a little low
I wouldn’t be super upset with it it’s
just that I had an open face so spin
3100 ball speed
169 um interestingly enough ball speed
169 that’s really close that’s the
average of where I was before and we Dro
down a little bit on the club speed so
301 carry
326 I really don’t see any difference
that selecting the range ball could have
made on that let’s hit one
more another block I can’t hit a draw to
save my life today uh that one I hit
high on the face so that is why it
launched a little bit higher stayed in
the air a bit longer but ball speed’s
probably yeah so ball speed 167
efficiency is probably down to
13 okay
139 2100 spin like 321 for 347 with a
range ball all of these are pretty solid
numbers for a mish hit not upset with
anything there I don’t again I don’t
know what selecting that range button
could have done but let’s hit one more
with the range ball and then we’ll do
the same thing for the provie one
I swung way too fast there I had muscle
memory kind of kick in and I got to the
top we’re going to have to delete that
one um because for some reason I decided
to get to the top and forget what I was
doing and yeah
so okay throwing away that one Let’s uh
let’s try and hit one good last shot out
with the range ball switch it to premium
and then go
prov1 it’s
okay I hit it almost Center little toey
but the draw is back it’s what we like
to see the distance is bang on where we
saw the averages for the range ball
before Club speed8 so I actually swung
it slower and ball speed was showing
there 163 so that slowed down as well um
1,400 spin I mean to spin a range ball
at 1400 is dope these balls are actually
like shockingly good okay we’ve selected
premium ball up in the top left we’ve
changed our club back over to our prov1
club so we’re going to see if that makes
any difference because I don’t think it
did on the Range ball
setting I came over the top and hit like
a a weird
pull
but um we can keep it in I mean I think
I swung around around the same speed and
hit it with around the same ball speed
the same effort level was put into the
swing it just was kind of a little bit
over the top apparently it wasn’t it was
0
degrees um 170 ball speed but 123 Club
again 2500 spin we’re spinning these R
these prov1 left dashes more than a
range ball I don’t know if that’s common
knowledge I to me this is just a
discovery this is pretty surprising to
me I don’t know if this is just like
everyone knows this but um yeah you
learn something new every
day heal
cut I didn’t wow only 3 yards it didn’t
feel that bad had just a little low heel
which is like a bad combination you
never want to do that but to only carry
it 278 3700
RPM Titleist what are we doing that’s so
much spin that’s
disgusting I honestly don’t even love
left dashes anymore so range balls went
160 5.9 rounded up to 166 uh and then
166.370
difference and in this I think that’s
exactly
7 yeah that is hilarious um moving on
launch angle um man Dylan your furnace
is quite loud um launch angle range ball
launch
12.2 weird prov1 left Dash launching
nine again that could be my swing could
be the attack angle could be a number of
variables there but look at the spin
2200 on average to 2600 on average so 22
range ball 26 prov1 left Dash total uh
range ball 305 334 total and this time
uh prov1 280 314 so again I’m human I
I’m not perfect at golf um I never claim
to be I never will claim to be obviously
M hits happen and the ball comes off the
face in different locations each time
but um it just kind of goes to show that
this range ball that I’ve selected now
this might not be every range ball you
might go to a goat track and have a
terrible experience with range balls but
this was a premium Golf Course range
ball um you know premium in quotation
marks like not really it’s a premium
Golf Course premium Club so I would
expect them to have good range balls and
they do
really keeping up if not outperforming
the prov1 left Dash in some instances so
that’s really really interesting um
looking at Club speed quickly here uh
range ball 119 on
average and wow interesting so I even
the the the ball speed differences are
even closer now because again I
accidentally swung a little faster going
after the prov1 left dashes maybe that’s
just because three warm-up shots in
range balls and then I’m more warm or my
body’s more loose for the next three
that’s all I can really um say to the
the fact but um yeah that’s everything
we’re going to need to see on the table
let’s get back to the foresight range
and try and step on the gas a little bit
see if we start to notice there’s got to
be a law of diminishing return here if
the left Dash is what set the ball speed
record at like over 240 mph um there’s a
reason Kyle’s using it um and not just a
range ball so surely once you get like
closer to 190s 200 ball speed maybe
that’s where the range ball starts to
dip off so uh let’s see what I have in
the tank for um a couple big swings
