Birdie Ball practice balls

Just bought a couple dozen of these and am truly amazed. I highly recommend these for back-yard practice, as an alternative to "wiffle balls" or even hitting real balls into a net. The great thing with these is they feel very much like hitting a real ball, and their flight is similar to a real ball as well but they travel only about 40-50 yards. You can actually, fade and draw them. It's really nice to be able to go to the local park and hit these around instead of having to go to the driving range. If you want to find out more go to birdieball.com

This is a great site! Thanks for all the tips!
James

What is a wiffle ball? I've never heard the expression in Australia.

Its a hollow ball made of plastic with holes in it.

Thanks Bonzi. I've used them but never heard them called that name.

What do you call them in Oz?

I'll check a packet Lowpost to see if there is some name on them. My mates just call them "Those plastic balls with holes in 'em".

That is funny!

I'm from oz and call them plastic balls with holes as well. I think they are packed as plastic practice balls.

I call them wiffle balls too... I have also heard them called air balls by our British friends

This topic about Birdieballs never really took off, but turned into a wiffleball topic.

I though I'd turn it back, having just gotten my hands on these Birdieballs myself!

I must say ... these weird looking "tubes" are absolutely brilliant. The design is pure genious.

From an aerodynamic perspective, the birdieball is high drag in the vertical rotation plane causing it to be very restricted in travelling distance.

In the lateral rotation plane, it is round like a normal ball, causing it to react very true to sidespin and thus slice, fade, draw and hook like a normal golf ball.

The result is a ball you can strike at with a full swing, that shows you a correct flight path profile, but still only travels a limited distance (35 meters from a 9-iron).

You can also analyze the backspin of the ball, simply by listening to the sound the "ball" makes in the air.

I've just spent a couple of hours whacking these balls over the fence and into my neighbours garden, where he - loudly giggling - would whack them back into mine.

You can even get a strike mat if you don't own a piece of lawn that you can tear apart - or live in a tarmac-clad area

Best golf-buy I've made for ages.

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I have used them also. They are not bad.

Here are some more of my comments on them:

• They seem to be a bit expensive
• I have not figured out a way to hit them with my driver. The point being, how do you tee them up with the tubular shape they have?
• They get dirty quickly and seem to be hard to find in the grass (a pretty picky gripe, I guess)

My two cents worth....

Chessbum.....

You tee them up by placing them on a plastic strike pad (that you buy separately or as part of a kit). It's a piece of styrene plastic that has a slight fold towards one end. You place the ball just behind the fold so the b-ball is a bit off the ground. You can also use this to hit balls off a paved surface such as a parking lot etc.

does anyone know where i can get these in the UK?

thanks

adz

www.birdieball.com

birdieball@responz.se

I'd send them an email and ask to be their distributor if they don't have one!

ohh i gotta order me some of these, ive lost i dont know how many golf balls in our field in front of the house