Golf Ball Dissection

While this whole series on golf draws heavily on the delightful Youtube personalities at Stacked Golf, I've also got a destructive personality. Just by the nature of being around golf since the mid to late 90's, I've accrued a plethora of golf balls - a whole shag bag full from a neighbor who moved, a spare dozen or so from the golf bag I bought at the thrift store, finding a pocketful of golf balls, and picking up a sleeve or two as door prizes at golf outings. It's just one of those things.

With that in mind, I busted out the ol' PVC cutter and took a leaf out of Rick Shiels' book: I gathered up a bunch of old and spare golf balls and sliced them open, to record for posterity!

Kirkland Signature 3-piece

Bridgestone e6 Soft

Callaway ERC Soft - note the "infamous" off-center core, towards the top of the ball

Dunlop DDH Distance - one of my favorite balls as a junior, that I was happy to find being reissued

Top Flite XL

Top is a Taylor Made Noodle, bottom is an old Maxfli Noodle. Taylor Made bought the rights to the name "Noodle" in the mid-00's and used it for a completely different soft, straight distance ball.

This one didn't have a model name, it just said Pinnacle.

Titleist DT 2 Piece, dating from the early 2000s

Srixon Q Star

Nike Hyperflight

Pinnacle Rush

Nike PD Long

Taylormade Distance+

Nike Mojo

Titleist DT So/Lo, honest to goodness, one of my favorite golf balls ever.

Callaway Supersoft

Callaway Hex Control - hard to tell from this picture, but this one too has an off-center core

The "new" Top Flite Gamer - new to the market in Fall 2020, and with a cool 3-piece design (similar to the Bridgestone e6, Kirkland Sigs, and Nike Hyperflights above)

Nike ball without a model name written on it

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