BY JOHN STEINBREDER
Wilson officials say they
know how to make high-per-
formance golf balls as well as
golf clubs, and they point to
the introduction of the Duo as
the latest example of that.
The Wilson Staff Duo is a
two-piece, surlyn-covered dis-
tance ball that boasts a com-
pression of less than 40 that
makes it what Michael Vrska,
the company’s global director
of research and development,
describes as “crazy soft.”
“The Duo is geared pri-
marily for mid- to high-hand-
icap golfers and designed
to be easier for those with
slower swing speeds to com-
press,” he says. “We promote
it as having a performance
double-take, because it is
like a rocket ship off the tee
as well as soft and playable
around the green.”
According to Vrska, the
below-40 compression is
about half the compres-
sion of the average of the
leading competitive golf
balls, while it also boasts an
industry average COR.
“That ensures that it has
the length golfers expect in a
distance ball but the play-
ability of a tour performance
ball around the green,” he
says. “It sounds like a tour
ball when you hit it, and feels
like one, too. But it is very,
very long.
“It’s the softest distance
ball out there,” says Vrska,
adding that it is also one of
the best values in that realm,
given its $20 price point in
the United States. l
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