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If you swing fast enough into a low compression ball, strange things happen with the ball flight.

A ball has optimum compression, we'll assume it to be X for intents and purposes here.

You WANT to reach X, and depending on your swing, you need a different resistance in the ball to reach that optimum, X. X is probably a few millimeters, and it's what you see on swing-visions when the ball compresses.

If you fail to compress the ball enough (like a slow swinger using a high-compression ball), you will lose some distance, but the major difference will be that the ball feels hard. You will also not be able to produce as much spin on the ball, since the ball did not flatten as much against the club and engage in the optimum amount of friction. This will give you longer rollout though, which is why the total distance loss is not severe.

If you OVER-compress the ball, you get STRANGE shots. The ball will lose a lot of energy due to the poor transfer and over-compression. The ball basically flattens TOO much. It may rebound in strange ways, depending on the balance of the ball itself. This ball will also spin wildly, and often come up significantly short.

See the thread about the wilson 50/50. Several people cite very peculiar shots. An 80-110 compression ball is going to be okay for almost everyone. A super-fast swing will see some benefit from a very high compression ball, and a slow swing will see some minor improvement from something like the 50/50 or the noodle. They WILL hit the ball farther with a low compression ball, and it'll feel much better.

The 50/50 and the NOODLE are both quite low in compression.

Maxfli Tour Fire is actually low, coming in around 75.

Tour Fire is a great bargain now, on clearance at Dick's for 14.97 a dozen. It's moderately low compression 3-piece ball. The pre-cursor to the B330-RX, really.