For most weekend hackers, the shopping list for the Saturday afternoon round is set in stone: beer (check), smokes (check), and a dozen golf balls – the really, really, hard kind that go really, really far into the woods (check). Yes indeed, most beer-swillin’ chops just aren’t overly concerned about a ball’s “feel.”
However, if you’ve graduated from “weekend chop” to “mid-week menace,” you might be at the point where the harder-than-Hades distance balls just don’t melt your butter anymore. And let’s be honest, when it comes to playing shots around the greens, even your wrinkled grandma could benefit from playing a ball that had some semblance of suppleness to it.
Enter Pinnacle’s 70 compression Exception ball. Long known for their yard-munching “rocks,” Pinnacle has entered the “feel” market with a ball that does not sacrifice distance, but offers a much softer cover for players who are continually concerned with performance on and around the greens – or at least before the first six-pack has been inhaled.
I recently dropped a couple of these eggs on the short game practice area at my home track and gave them an initiation to some steel. Remarkably, on my first ball, I chipped it onto the green from the deep rough and sucked it back off the green into a bunker. Not. Truthfully, though, the ball was way softer than I expected (after all, it’s still a Pinnacle), and I was pleased with it’s performance. So…if you’re a friendly neighborhood “mid-week menace,” it might be a ball to consider.
