Fall Ball! Yes, I’m talking golf

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By Brian Chipper

GolfWRX Contributor

Illustration by Joel Holland

It is fall in America.  This means cool nights, football, and leaves everywhere on the golf course.  For most of us, this means that our golf ball is now buried, behind, or directly on top of one of these leaves.

Could the color affect the chances of us finding the ball?  This past year, having a neon yellow ball has become trendy.  Unfortunately if your course has: Fallgold Ash, Harvest Gold Linden, Ginkgo or Sugar Maples, your score is going to balloon.

At the local pro shop I have also seen a fair amount of blaze orange golf balls.  Do they stand a chance in the fall?  Well, if your course is dotted with Sugar Maple, Autumn Blaze Maple, American Beech, Cimarron Ash, or Red Maples, you are going to have a bad time.

Ok what about purple?  Sugar Maple, Japanese Maple, Sienna Maple, and Red Maples will make your day quite annoying.

So maybe they made the golf ball white for a reason:  New Bradford Pear, May Day Tree, Redspire Pear, White Flowering Dogwood, and Aristocrat Flowering Pears will beg to differ.

Am I calling everyone to rush to their golf course and start up the chainsaw to any deciduous tree out there?  Yes, yes I am.

Okay no. No, I am not.  I could make a plea to the golf ball manufactures to go back the late 1980’s Ping half-and-half colored golf balls. But that is so passé. And with your luck every variety of color tree is on your golf course.

I’m calling out the golf manufacturers to go ahead and take the jump to a golf ball with a small GPS chip in it and an App to help locate the ball.  Make it expensive; $10 a ball, it doesn’t matter!  If they can make a hockey puck glow on TV in 1994, it is hard for me to believe that we are not near golf ball GPS technology today.

Heck, connect the ball to my Facebook Account, Twitter, whatever (as long as it doesn’t publicly give my score with it).  I’ll gladly look at an ad or two if enables me to keep enjoying the golf this Fall.

Signed, disgruntled by my lost ball in the fairway today, okay rough. Whatever, I’m not taking a penalty stroke for this!

- Brian Chipper

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2 Comments

1. 

   Brian Chipper

   October 5, 2012 at 1:03 pm

   I played yesterday and only lost 1 ball due to leaves/bent over vegetation/weird grass area

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2. 

   Denny

   October 23, 2012 at 7:18 pm

   Colored golf balls do not get it in the fall. The best you can do is play a surlyn covered ball that does not spin as much when you impart a slice or hook spin on the ball. Of course this also works in the summer too by keeping the ball closer to the fairway and give you a better chance of finding the ball. Now is the time to work on your game to get rid of that slice or hook before you wrap up for the season. The trick then becomes remembering what you did to correct that slice/hook when you get the clubs back out next spring.

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