I rented some Titleist clubs and hit a 983 pretty well. I’d like to buy one, but ebay offers so many different models. If I can’t find a 983 standard flex, 10.5 degree, are any of these other models comparable?

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With so many great golf balls on the market, here is some information that may help you find the ball just for you.

The Titleist Pro V1 – Professional Grade

The Titleist Pro V1 golf ball is must-have for the bag of any serious golfer. The Pro V1 is tour tested and approved by many of the professionals on the circuit. It’s true that the price is steep, but when you can get used Titleist golf balls at a huge discount there’s no reason not to try them.

So what sets the Titleist Pro V1 apart from other golf balls? To start with, you can chalk up a longer driver distance and sweet compression on the swing. A solid core holds it steady on the long drives and the urethane elastomer cover makes the ball softer and more responsive to the touch.

The outer layer includes a high coverage 392 dimple design – an upgrade introduced on the Titleist Pro V1 – and the innovative Alignment Integrated Marking (A.I.M.) stamp that makes alignment during putting a breeze.

While getting to the green is easily achieved with many long-driving balls, they don’t help if they spin out of control or bounce well beyond the mark. The Titleist Pro V1’s wicked Drop-And-Stop control holds your place on the green like no other golf ball.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if the Titleist Pro V1 is good enough for the pros, it’s going to be great for your game.

The Srixon Z-URS Outperforms

If you’re currently using Titleist Pro V1 or Callaway HX Tour 56 golf balls, then Srixon wants to talk to you. The company believes that the Srixon Z-URS is a much better ball than what the others offer and they are prepared to back it up.

The Srixon Z-URS is designed to provide extreme high velocity for insane distance off the tee. Its tough, larger than normal, Energetic Gradient Growth core also delivers a low-speed, high-angle launch to provide the carry needed for long distance. Combine that with a high-trajectory, 330 dimple configuration and you’ve got performance you won’t find in the other balls.

But you won’t be sacrificing control for all that distance you’ll be racking up. The Srixon Z-URS golf ball has a urethane cover that is formulated for softness and spin control. For the short game, the Srixon Z-URS is unsurpassed at saving you strokes after your initial drive.

You know your game and Srixon knows its Z-URS golf ball can improve it. Put it to the test, because you have nothing to lose but a lot of needless strokes.

Bridgestone B330-S Is Consistently The Best

When the Bridgestone B330-S tour balls hit the scene, they were considered the ultimate tour caliber golf ball available to us non-professionals. And because of Bridgestone’s innovative injection-molding process, the B330-S balls you buy today still consistently meet those high standards.

Bridgestone took its research and development international with the B330-S to find the latest cutting-edge technology money could buy. The result is the Bridgestone B330-S’s superior performance and exceptional distance.

The B330-S features a unique seamless cover technology that ensures deeper and consistent dimple coverage for excellent aerodynamics and accuracy. The Bridgestone B330-S also boasts the “Soft Speed Elasticity Core” for vastly increased distance and an inomer inner layer that speeds up acceleration.

Control is a given with the Bridgestone B330-S. You don’t get rave reviews from the pros by putting out a hard ball that doesn’t provide a nice touch for putting. The soft urethane cover gives a sweet, cushy feel that you can propel with great control.

The keyword with the Bridgestone B330-S is consistency. The same great game you – and the professionals – found with the B330-S is still available. And if you haven’t tried it, you’re not too late to get some tour quality, highly-rated golf balls in your bag.

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A Peek at the 2009 Golf Digest Hot List

Whether you?re a golf equipment fanatic or just a casual observer of the latest offerings and trends in golf clubs and accessories, the 2009 Golf Digest Hot List is a golf equipment smorgasbord. From drivers, fairway woods and hybrids, to irons, wedges and putters?oh, and bags and balls, too?the equipment gurus at Golf Digest break it down in their popular annual equipment ranking.

The Process

If you?re wondering how golf equipment experts rate, for example, Callaway drivers or TaylorMade irons, think Excel spreadsheets with thousands of data points, hundreds of pages of technical data from golf equipment manufacturers, scientists, a four-part judging criteria, and a two-week visit to a San Jose, California, resort for field testing.

The process is, in a word, exhaustive. Golf Digest evaluated the ?universe? of golf clubs?471 entries, to be exact?and judged them across four weighted criteria: 1) performance (40%), 2) innovation (30%), 3) look/sound/feel (20%), and 4) demand (10%).

After all the facts and data were collected, the judges engaged in nine days of meetings that included 800 debates to arrive at the 116-club Hot List. Along the way, they ate a lot of take-out food.

Following is a peek at this year?s list.

Drivers

Golf Digest breaks down the golf drivers category into two parts: drivers over $350 and drivers under $350. Then it splits the two categories into gold and silver winners.

Three of the gold winners in the over $350 category are the Callaway FT-9, PING Rapture V2 and the TaylorMade r7 Limited.

No one is better than Callaway at using multiple materials, said the judges about the FT-9. Players like the look, balance and carry of the PING Rapture V2, which has a similar look to the PING G10. The TaylorMade r7 Limited has movable weights and features an Ozik shaft. Some said it produces the best feel of any club on the market.

Gold winners in the under $350 category included Adams Speedline, Callaway Big Bertha Diablo, PING G10 and TaylorMade Burner.

Irons

Irons were broken into three categories that correspond with playing ability and interests: game improvement, super game improvement and players irons.

Gold winners in the game-improvement category included Callaway X-22, PING G10 and TaylorMade Burner. One player said he could hit the Callaway X-22 irons blindfolded. Sign me up, he said. Callaway X-22 led in the Demand category, which is an assessment of reputation, interest, intrigue and excitement. The PING G10 is a long-time category leader, and the TaylorMade Burner irons really shined, leading in three of the four judging categories: performance, innovation and look/sound/feel.

TaylorMade also had a gold winner in the super game improvement category: the Burner Plus, which features an oversized clubhead and hefty offset to help get the golf ball in the air.

In the players irons category, Titleist AP2 rose to the top, along with TaylorMade Tour Preferred, Callaway X-22 Tour, Callaway X-Forged and PING S57 models, four among the total of six gold winners.

Putters

Arguably, there?s no golf club more important than the putter. Golf Digest took a close look at two main categories: blade putters and mallet putters.

Gold winners in the blade putter category over $200 included the Odyssey Black Series I #6, TaylorMade Daytona TP-KIA MA and Titleist Cameron Studio Select, which led in three of four criteria: performance, look/sound/feel and demand.

In the blade putter category under $200, top picks were the Odyssey White Hot Tour 1, two PING Anser models and the TaylorMade Daytona.

Gold winners in the mallet putter category included the Odyssey Black Series I 2-Ball, PING iWi Craz-E and TaylorMade Itsy Bitsy Spider. And leading mid-mallet putters were Odyssey, Titleist Cameron and MacGregor models.

Bags

Hot List judges took a look at lightweight carry bags and ?do it all? cart bags, selecting their 21 favorites. Leading the list of gold and silver winners were models from Callaway, PING, TaylorMade, Titleist, Bag Boy, Nike, Ogio, Sun Mountain, Wilson and Izzo.

What Tour Pros Play

What do the top tour professionals play? Following is just a sampling.

Callaway: Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els, Annika Sorenstam

TaylorMade: Kenny Perry, Sergio Garcia, Paula Creamer

PING: Angel Cabrera, Lorena Ochoa, Hunter Mahan

Titleist: Steve Stricker, Zach Johnson, Adam Scott

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