GC2 and range balls

[Chris83d]

I predominantly use my GC2 for sim golf but since I am getting my garage ready for my new impact screen I decided to take the GC2 to my local driving range.

I was hitting a lot of drives but noticed that most were only going 230 yards carry. On my fr1 software my drives regularly carry 260-270 yards.

Are range balls designed to carry less? I was really pounding my driver...

Strange....

[Tommyseb]

not all range balls are the same, some range balls are flight limited, some are not. and even the flight limited ones could be 80% or 50% limited flight, i always keep a few old normal balls in my bag for the range to hit if i want to be confident that the carry and spin numbers are correct, usually i'm just working on ball flight and strike at the range, i wouldn't do gap testing with range balls.

[Chris83d]

Thanks Tommy. I was actually testing out a new driver I had been lent so probably not the best place to test numbers. I'll have to get my home simulator back up and running so I can test with proper golf balls!

[brock]

Just for kicks, here's a golf digest article on range ball distances. The big takeaway is they can be very inconsistent if very old. https://www.golfdigest.com/story/gd-tested-range-balls

[Dax]

I think Mark Crossfield did a video on this a number of years ago.

[LEO MODE]

I am thinking of buying $30 worth of premium refurb balls and hitting them on the range vs range balls. I was told that limited flight range balls do have shorter and lower distance. I definitely felt that my carry was about 10yds shorter whenever I used range balls.