Wilson Dx2 Soft

The Wilson Staff Dx2 Soft golf ball has come top in Today’s Golfer Feel Test blind trials. Different golf balls were tested by professional and low handicap golfers for their feel when putting. The Wilson Staff range of golf balls all featured highly in the testing and demonstrated the quality of the golf balls.

The Dx2 Soft is a high performance ball which enables you to give a better golf ball at your golf day and stay within your budget. Impress your guests by giving a quality golf ball from the Wilson Staff range at this year’s golf day. For more information on each type of ball take a look at the golf ball section of our website

Many modern drivers have large heads and, as the ball on your set up to a drive should sit with the top of the club around halfway up the ball, standard 54mm tees are too short,causing you to ‘top’ the ball or perform other bad shots, and therefore lose the benefit of the club. 70mm tees allow the ball to sit in the correct place at set up and ensure that you have the best chance of hitting a good shot.

A ball marker is used to mark your golf ball on the green so you can lift and clean it and move it out of the line of your fellow players’ putts. If they hit your ball on the green they will be penalised so it is courtesy to mark your ball.

A pitch repairer/fork is used to repair ‘pitch marks’ which are dents made on the green when the golf ball lands there. It is very important to repair them as it keeps the greens in good condition.

Yes, all golf balls are supplied in the manufacturers cardboard sleeve of three golf balls and then packed in large outer boxes. Clear plastic tubes that hold three balls can also be purchased.

The normal lead time is 10 working days from receipt of signed artwork however some products can be turned around in just 7 working days. If you have a very short lead time please contact us to see if that delivery date can be achieved.

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Yes a choice of colours applies to all products on this website that include tees.

We all want to emulate the pros but simply buying into a product because your favourite professional or the latest tour winner uses it will not normally make you play like them. Very low handicapped golfers can use an expensive ball such as a Titleist ProV1, Wilson TX4, Callaway HX Tour 56, or Srixon Z-urc and it will probably be one of the best for them as they have the ability to use the added spin and shape you can achieve with this ball. For anyone else, however, it will not give you anything extra at all and may only hinder your performance. In that respect, is it worth paying around £40.00 a dozen simply for the name? Is performance or ego more important?

The table above indicates, by handicap brackets, the ball from a few, select, manufacturers which we recommend. Other balls, of course, are available including ladies’ balls and, while these are fine for ladies who are just beginning or have a high handicap, women playing off less than 20 should use the guide above.

With green fees, prizes, dinner and all the other accoutrements, golf days don’t come cheap so why not spread your budget a little further? Instead of a Pro V1, for instance, why not try a PTS Roll or NXT Tour or Extreme? The same applies for other brands. With the money saved you could include printed tees to your gifts or use the balls in gift boxes or ball and tee tubes. Golf balls are easily lost so why not give your customers something extra to remember you and your day by? Image is everything when it comes to corporate golf days and, though you want your brand alongside the name of a globally recognised, quality product, you don’t need to break the bank to do so.

Don’t forget that, as long as you stick with the same manufacturer, you can always add on an extra couple of dozen higher end balls for prizes or special thank you’s. For instance, if you chose to buy Wilson Ultra as your give-away ball, you could order two dozen Wilson TX4 balls to put on the prize table., as long as the artwork is the same and you have ordered at least ten dozen Ultra.

In the earliest days of golf on the eastern coast of Scotland, players used primitive equipment to play the game in a rather haphazard and casual manner. The first clubs and balls specifically made for golf were fashioned from wood. One documented reference is that of a John Daly playing with a wooden ball in 1550.

In 1618 the feather golf ball or ‘Featherie’ was introduced. This was a handcrafted ball made with goose feathers tightly packed into a horse or cow hide sphere. The feathers and leather were fashioned into a ball while wet. As the assembly dried out the leather shrank and the feathers expanded to create a hardened ball. The ball was then finished off by painting it and punched with the ball-makers mark. Quality varied according to the skill of the craftsman. Unfortunately, the handcrafted nature of the balls meant that they were priced beyond the pockets of the masses, sometimes more expensive than a club. Notable ball-makers of the 1600s were Andrew Dickson, Leith and Henry Mills, St Andrews.

The introduction of the Gutta Percha ball or ‘Guttie’ in 1848 by Rev Adam Paterson of St. Andrews and the spread of the railways directly contributed to the expansion of golf. The Guttie ball was made from the rubber like sap of the Gutta tree found in the tropics. When heated the rubber could easily be fashioned into a sphere and used as a golf ball. Not only could the ball be relatively cheaply produced, it could also be easily repaired by re-heating and then re-shaping. Initially Gutties had a smooth surface which meant that they didn’t travel as far as the Featheries. The balls were usually stamped with the ball makers stamp, most notably Allan Robertson.

After 1880, gutties were produced with patterns on their surface in an attempt to reproduce the distance characteristics of a scored Featherie. With the Victorians came industrialisation and mechanisation, and by 1890 Gutties were being made in moulds which further increased their affordability, consistency and quality. The most notable pattern of the period was the ‘Bramble’ – raised spherical bumps across the surface of the ball. Many of the rubber companies including Dunlop began mass-producing balls which killed off the handcrafted ball business.

In 1898, Coburn Haskell introduced the one-piece rubber cored ball which was universally adopted by 1901 after it proved so effective in the British and US Opens. These balls looked just like Gutties but gave the average golfer an extra 20 yards from the tee. These balls were constructed from a solid rubber core wrapped in rubber thread encased in a gutta percha sphere. Once W. Millison developed a thread winding machine, Haskell balls were mass-produced and therefore more affordable.

Throughout this period there was a lot of experimentation with the patterns on golf balls – one of the reasons why golf collecting is so interesting. When William Taylor first applied the dimple pattern to a Haskell ball in 1905, golf balls took on their modern form. The dimple pattern maximises lift while minimising drag.

Manufacturers continued to experiment with golf ball design including Goodrich who introduced the pneumatic ball in 1906 (the patent was held by T. Saunders and filed in 1901). Quite simply this was a Haskell ball with a compressed air core which unfortunately was prone to expansion with heat and therefore causing the ball to explode. Others tried mercury, cork and metal cores. Only in 1972, when Spalding introduced the first two piece ball, the Executive, was the basic Haskell design improved upon.

In 1921, the R&A and USGA standardised the size and weight of the ball. Since then further constraints have been proposed which are detailed in the rules. Between 1931 and 1990, both organisations differed on the dimensions of the golf ball which meant that the game played on either side of the Atlantic was similar but different.

Today there is a rich variety of golf balls to suit the individual game and circumstance. Some offer control, some offer distance while others are suitable for practice only. Antique golf balls are avidly collected and are becoming increasingly valuable. A dimple patterned Guttie in good condition is worth about $US 500.