Golf Ball Week 2011 Conclusion – Best Tour Ball

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Categories: Golf Balls • Golf Equipment • Golf Gear
Tags: Srixon • TaylorMade

Greetings from 35,931 feet and on a flight path far north of the original intended path from NYC to home, Salt Lake City, UT. Seriously choppy ride due to a big storm area we passed over and/or through. I’d hoped to get writing my final Golf Ball Week 2011 post an hour ago but it was so bumpy the passengers weren’t allowed out of their seats. Now that we’ve passed the chop, I’m ready to chop into my final, delayed Golf Ball Week post. I’m sure many HOG readers have been losing sleep for the four days since I interrupted this series to take part in a long weekend in the Big Apple with friends and family, but it is time to return to the regularly scheduled Golf Blogram.

Best “Tour” Golf Ball of 2011

I’ve played every great ball imaginable this past season and it was hard to pick the winner between the two finalists for best tour golf ball, the TaylorMade Penta and the Srixon Z-Star. It was a dead heat for me on performance and distance and I had to go to a “sudden victory” playoff (thanks to Dana White and the UFC for that one) to break the tie.

Srixon Z-Star Golf Ball - click for more

Based on the fact that I found the Z-Star to be considerably more durable than the Penta, the Z-Star was my pick for #1 Tour level ball this year. I have a Z-Star yellow floating around my bag that I played somewhere around 10 rounds with, and counting. Despite all that play with square grooved wedges and a couple of cart paths, the ball is still totally playable and shows very little wear.

I’ve reviewed both color options of this golf ball. You can click the hyperlinks for my Srixon Z-Star white review and my Srixon Z-Star yellow review.

Golf Ball Week 2011 Concludes

It has been a fun week or so covering EIGHT different golf balls, including some which employ crazy technologies like hollow metal cores and radar tracking systems. Sure there are many, many other great golf balls out there which I didn’t cover. If you feel the need, comment in your favorite golf ball below and let me and the HOG readers know why.

Gear Head Alert: Nike Golf Introduces Limited Edition VR Pro Fairway Woods (pictures too)

Written by: Tony Korologos | Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Categories: Golf Clubs • Golf Equipment • Golf Gear
Tags: Nike Golf

Gear Head Alert – Gear Head Alert

Nike today has announced new limited edition VR Pro fairway woods. Refer to the official Nike press release here for details.

Nike Golf VR Pro Limited Edition Fairway Woods - click to see more

Pictures of these new VR Pro Fairways are here, or you can click the image as well.

HOG Occupies Wall Street

Written by: Tony Korologos | Sunday, November 13th, 2011
Categories: HOG World Tour

Freedom Tower - click to zoom

Fantastic couple of days in NYC with the fine lady so far. We’ve seen some big attractions, like the New York skyline from the Top Of The Rock, in Rockefeller Center. Today we went down to the 911 Memorial and got to see up close the new Freedom Tower. Wow.

HOG-uppy Wall Street

On the way to see the Freedom Tower, we stopped by and looked at some of the Occupy Wall Street-ers. What a bunch.

Last Night

For the 2nd night in a row, our NYC shenanigans had us up past 3:00AM. Last night found us at a big party with Jay Flemma, a bunch of folk musicians, K.J. Choi’s caddie and lovely wife, and none other than Aasif Mandvi from the Daily Show. Only in NYC.

Start spreadin’ the news… HOG World Tour NYC

Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, November 11th, 2011
Categories: HOG World Tour • Miscellaneous • Site News

11/11/11

I’m interrupting 2011 Golf Ball Week 2011 for 4 days. You’ll have to wait until next week for my final Golf Ball Week post which will disclose my favorite tour performance golf ball. Stay tuned for that.

For now, the HOG World Tour is making a four day stop in New York City! My lovely lass and I arrived in the afternoon on 11/11/11 and headed to Times Square.

Times Square 11/11/11 - click to zoom

We watched the amazing Steven Wilson of the band Porcupine Tree, perform his first solo act performance in the big city. What a fantastic show. (more…)

HOG’s best amateur golf balls for 2011

Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Categories: Golf Balls • Golf Equipment • Golf Gear

Bridgestone B330-RXS - click to zoom

Golf Ball Week 2011 has been, well, a ball. So far I’ve covered everything from golf balls equipped with radar tracking devices to balls with hollow metal cores to high quality tour level golf balls. Today I’m going to mention the two best “amateur” golf balls IMO, the Bridgestone RX and RX-S

The Bridgestone B330-RX series changed the golf ball market when it came out a few years ago. Finally there was a ball specifically designed for guys like me, with swing speeds less than 105mph. Many companies have released their own versions of this type of ball, but nobody has done it better than Bridgestone so far.

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