Shiny Balls

I played a scramble tournament with the ladies league yesterday (my team won). One of the fun add-ons was a game called Mystery Ball. Each team was given a blue Nike Mojo ball, which had to be played by a different player on each hole. The object was not to lose the ball -- not such an easy task, since it was a dark, matte blue and definitely hard to spot against green grass. All teams who still had the blue ball at the end of the tournament would be entered in a raffle for a prize. Turned out, my team was the only one that didn't lose their ball, so we won the raffle by default.

Speaking of balls of color, one of the women on my team showed up with the most blinged-out balls I've ever seen. The silver ball is from the Lynx brand, the same maker of a beloved $16 sand wedge I once had. The gold ball is made by Chromax, a specialist in metallic balls of color. I must say that the silver ball was easier to spot in the grass than any golf ball I've ever seen. Maybe it's because they shine like a light, which is the opposite of those matte golf balls I tried out recently.

I think I'm gonna have to try out these metallic, high-visibility golf balls for myself some day. Because finding one's balls should never be a mystery.

(P.S. Nike discontinued its Mojo balls, so now those blue balls will be almost impossible to find.)