This pattern provides the player with a slightly lower, more penetrating ball flight. The cover of the ball consists of a very thin urethane cover. (I didn’t know they were putting a number on compression anymore.). The Tour D is a three-piece ball with 95 compression. The sports division is where you’ll find the golf balls for now. As it turns out licensing issues currently have Dunlop split into a golf division and a “sports” division. In fact if you go to you won’t find a single golf ball, just other equipment. Not much can be found online about any Dunlop golf balls. Up until recently John Daly played this ball on tour. It’s meant to compete with the ProV1’s and HX Tours of the world, and compete it does. The Dunlop Loco Tour D is Dunlop’s “premium” golf ball. The Dunlop Loco Tour D is the first of the 7 I’ll be covering in my upcoming reviews. I’ve had 7 different types/brands of golf balls in my review queue. It’s not officially in the shops until mid-March, so be patient folks, it’s worth waiting for.Day 6 of 7 straight days of golf equipment reviews!
The problem will be the manufacturers keeping up with demand. And after 73 strokes it didn’t have a mark on it.Īt £2 each – nearly half the cost of the latest long and soft challengers - these new Dunlop 65u’s should become the favoured brand of thousands of low to mid-handicap golfers. I was so impressed with the ball’s performance that at on the 18th hole, which demands a precise shot over water, I exchanged it for an older ball, so I could guarantee using it another day. Not quite the explosive reaction of a Pinnacle off the clubface, but certainly not a soft-skinned Titleist or Maxfli.
DUNLOP GOLF BALLS REVIEW FULL
I was up there with one of my 15-year-old big-hitting playing partners – despite giving him, 40 years start – and rarely out of the fairway.Īs for spin, the ball reacted well to the full shot but I will need to practise more with it to bring it to a halt sooner from chips around the green. That sounds like me to a tee – and I wasn’t disappointed. It’s aimed at golfers upto 12 handicap with ‘mid-high swing speeds in need of accuracy and distance off the tee and some spin on approach into the green.’
It’s unique Moebius dimple pattern, a combination of unusual triangle (three-sided) and pentagon (five) patterns, reduces side spin from tee shots, say the makers.ĭunlop also says the isometric design increases accuracy, consistent ball flight and distance. So it was with some affection that I put the new Dunlop 65u (for urethane cover) into play on Sunday morning. If you could play three rounds without putting a ‘smile’ on its face by cutting the cover with the leading edge of your irons, it was a great ball and you were a 'useful' golfer.īack then, a solid drive with a persimmon-headed club would propel a Dunlop 65 around 200 yards on a summer’s day while a pitch from 100 yards would need to bounce twice before it reached the green to give you any chance of a single putt. Spin, distance, launch angle, control characteristics were futuristic descriptions not yet accepted into the golfers’ language.Ī ball’s street-cred was based on its durability. It would carefully be unwrapped from its cellophane, admired and given an affectionate kiss before being placed on the tee peg.īack in the 1970s little was known by 18-handicap golfers about ball performance. My recollections of the original Dunlop 65, thirty years ago, are of a ball I used only on special occasions – and then only from the second tee, having negotiated the out of bounds which skirted the opening hole, with a used ball!
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