A most peculiar golf ball....

[Bob_Huntley]

See:

http://tinyurl.com/37sr48


Bob

[Garland Bayley]

My my my! There goes Tom D's specialty of defending par at the green.
Poor man is bound to be destitute soon.

[Bryan Izatt]

You did mean to say goalf ball didn't you?

[John Kavanaugh]

So, are hooked field goals only the fault of the holder?

[Tom Huckaby]

So, are hooked field goals only the fault of the holder?

I think the reason these goalf balls go straight are more due to the cup you hit out of - removing spin - than the football shaped ball.

I know my normal football kick hooks a bit even off of a tee - due to the soccer-style kicking motion.

TH (former kicker)

[Marty Bonnar]

Nancy's brother and wife brought me a ball back from NZ last year. Can't quite bring myself to hit it (yet!)

From the website:

The Oval Ball
When you play with the oval GolfCross® ball you’ll be playing with a genuinely smart ball which, despite appearances, is actually more aerodynamically stable than the round one you know so well. Amongst other things it will enable you to:
1. Hit the ball straight every time.
2. Perform controlled slices and hooks with ease.
3. Adjust the degree of fade or draw you require.
4. Generate backspin — even with a wood or out of the rough.
5. Apply top spin to achieve long low running shots and,
6. if you really want to show off, do double curves and play tunes.


http://www.golfcross.com/home.html


Must give it a 'try'   sometime soon.

FBD.

[Dan Kelly]

Nancy's brother and wife brought me a ball back from NZ last year. Can't quite bring myself to hit it (yet!)

I got a couple from my brother probably 10 years ago, after he saw them in New Zealand.

I still haven't hit them, either.

They came in a black pouch, and the whole package was vaguely reminiscent of ... well, never mind.

Maybe that's why I've never been willing to hit them!

[Mark Bourgeois]

Now see here, Sir Bob, one can't mock Chindogu and then a few days later start a thread on what clearly is a Chindogu, albeit a golf Chindogu and not a golf-architecture Chindogu.

Yours in Chindoguity,
Mr. Miyagi

[Mark Smolens]

Putting is boring?  Maybe Mr. Hogan would agree, but take away my putter and I don't have much left. . .

[Sam Morrow]

I had a friend bring me a few of these mid-summer. Golf Cross is a blast, I hit the ball off the turf, not the tee, and hit them nothing but straight. When I tried hitting a flop with them I could spin them so much they would come back to me. I actually contacted them about getting Golf Cross going in Texas but like any venture they wanted money from me. I didn't care that much.

[Mike Mosely]

Putting is boring?  Maybe Mr. Hogan would agree, but take away my putter and I don't have much left. . .

I agree mark...I love putting and think that on a good course, the hole just gets better with a great green.  But its interesting nonetheless...still if it's been around since the 80s and most of us HAVEN"T heard of it or tried it, it can;t be all that popular.  In fact, what happens if you MIS-HIT a shot with the egg-shaped ball?