{"id":390,"date":"2011-08-01T10:58:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T15:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomharack.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2011-11-02T09:03:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T14:03:13","slug":"marketing-memo-to-polara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/tomharack\/golf\/equipment\/390\/marketing-memo-to-polara","title":{"rendered":"Marketing Memo To Polara"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Polara needs to be manually pointed in the right direction, one of the reasons it's not meant for competition. <\/p><\/div>\n

It was on a whim that I shoved a couple of sleeves of Polara golf balls into my bag before the trip to Ireland. They\u2019re meant to reduce hooks and slices \u2013 by as much as 75 percent, it\u2019s claimed \u2013 thanks to an innovative dimple pattern.<\/p>\n

As Polara spokespeople acknowledge forthrightly, the non-USGA-conforming balls are illegal for competition, even, presumably, for the beer-buying stakes of games we played. So we didn\u2019t give them the full-blown road warrior test, but I was<\/em> moved to think about the Polara\u2019s avowed raison d\u2019etre<\/em>: To allow golfers to have more fun.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because while spraying shots is painful on any course, doing it on a links course \u2013 typically in stiff winds and lined with hay-like grasses on steep dunes \u2013 can be excruciating. (Sandy Hills Links, at Rosapenna, comes to mind.)<\/p>\n

Purists will probably label the Polara a \u201cgolf ball,\u201d an interloper. And I\u2019m living proof that the courses we play in Ireland are a blast regardless of the quality of play. But I certainly couldn\u2019t fault anyone focused primarily on keeping the ball in view more and speeding pace of play.<\/p>\n

All that depends, of course, on whether the balls work as advertised, and our admittedly cursory trials at Tralee suggest they do. The trajectory is lower, sidespin is indeed substantially diminished.<\/p>\n

No guarantee, naturally, that you\u2019ll hit it where you want, and the wind will still grab it \u2013 something that made evaluating the claim that you gain two clubs\u2019 distance difficult to evaluate.<\/p>\n

Bloody \u2018ell, mate, I could change my name to O\u2019Hara and be a Polara rep, maybe based in Galway; or, given the way I\u2019ve sometimes played, a Polara poster boy.<\/p>\n

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