I am a relatively new player, started 8 months ago, now down to a handicap of 21 and loving the game. When I started I expected to lose loads of balls and therefore played with balls I found on the course and have a garage full of them. Thats where they are staying now. I took about 40 different balls, cut them in half with a hacksaw and checked what was inside. The shell or skin of the ball varies from thicknesses of 0.8 for the Pro V1 (which is why it is dead after a round or two) to 1.0 for the PTS carry (large dimples and rides on the wind like a magic carpet) or 1.1 for the Noodle Long and soft.
Although the insides of most golf balls are similar plastics they are ALL very different colours (which affects nothing) and 99% are two piece.
The Noodle has a pink inside, same compression feel as the core iof the Pro V1 and PTS but the extra half mm on the shell makes it last much longer.
Thats the tech but in play and especially putting, the Noodle is without doubt the best and straighest rolling ball I have used. Drives go straight too with the medium dimple and extremely uniform dimple pattern.
There are ZERO tendencies for the Long and Soft Noodle to fly off the club, the core on the numerous samples I have cut in half show perfect concentricity of the core to the shell and at £1.10 a ball there is NO WAY I am ever going to be buying Pro V1.
This is a Maxfli product but BUY the Noodle Long and soft , save money and lose fewer balls without losing the touch and feel.
For me . expensive balls if youre a poser, Long and soft Noodle if youre a realist.
