Discount
If you consider a $20 saving per set of 12, and then answer is definitely yes.
You see, everything about golf is expensive. The golf clubs are expensive, the membership is expensive, and the green fee is expensive. Even the suits you choose to wear for golf is expensive. Of course you can opt to wear budget khakis if you’re playing on public golf courses like Pebble Beach G. Links. But even with Pebble Beach G. Links’ pretense of being a “Public” golf course, the green fee of $450 is nowhere near being public.
If you want to save, discount golf balls provide the most economical approach in the long run. Yes, $20 savings means nothing when prices in the 19th hole could get as high as $6 per drink. But frankly, how often do you buy a 12 pack golf ball?
An average player loses 2 golf balls per game. More than that if the player’s skill is severely deficient that it’s always a bag on the hazards. And with the number of water hazards present, the chances for you to lose a couple more balls rise even higher. The famous 17th hole of the Sawgrass Tournament Players Club, for instance. Also called the “Island Green”, the lake that envelope the 18th hole is said to have hundreds of balls beneath its waters that regular dredging is needed. Lost balls due to off shots, carries to an inaccessible area like over a cliff, into a hedge, on a private property…etc are common ways to lose anyone’s balls.
These losses make golf balls an expensive maintenance. And when you still have to contend with major spending towards heftier membership fees, green fees and club maintenance and such; adding the bill of restocking golf balls can burst any average American’s budget. Anyone who’d want to go economical spending should consider getting cheaper discount golf balls.
The most significant question then goes: Is cheap golf balls any better or worse than the brand new ones?
Aside from the conceit of having brand new gold balls, discount golf balls are really nothing different than brand new golf balls. Any discount Titleist golf balls still function pretty much like new Titleist Pro V1, the difference is that the used golf ball user gets to have a $20 saving. Discount Titleist golf balls 2005 Pro V1 costs $26.95 while brand new Titleist 2005 Pro V1 costs around $43.99.
Wise shoppers would see discounted as not necessarily inferior products. These products could be discounted for several reasons: one of them is that they are the last items of an unsold stock, or that they are already a discontinued design. Any way, they are far from being inferior. Those discounted Titleist golf balls bought for $26.95 are enjoyed because they are a Titleist pro V1, one of the finest golf ball designs in the market.
Maybe the only difference in buying discounted or used golf balls would be the slight discoloration plus some few wears and tears of these balls. And there are some used or discounted golf balls that sell it like brand new, even though they carry the tag used. These could be golf balls used in corporate events, or else balls provided to the competitors of a tournament. These balls are remarkably used very slightly. Some of them won’t even have the slightest mar on their surface.
So why not buy cheap golf balls and save a couple of dollars that you could use on the 19th hole? Again, the price difference is considerable; the $20 more or less means something in the long run. And believe me; nothing’s more satisfying than winning a round with these cheap golf balls over an opponent that uses brand new ones.