They were in stores, but were selling out within a day of stocking, once all the positive reviews about them started coming out. I have 2 left from my original sleeve that was given to me. Wanna buy 'em? $1 each, plus $25 shippinggpickin wrote:I heard Kirkland ballz are only available online, people are buying them in bulk and ebaying
Pffft typical Costco. Whether it's golf balls or granola bars or undershirts you can't get too attached to the stuff they sell because eventually you're gonna go in to pick up another supersize pack of your favorite whatever and boom, it'll be gone, never to sit on top of a Costco pallet ever again.DougE wrote:Haven't even read the story yet, but it looks like the Costco Kirkland Tour Ball is done!
https://www.mygolfspy.com/costco-suspen ... roduction/
Like the MG-C4 you play and for only 5 bucks more.jasonfish11 wrote:Oh well there are other ballz that are just as good for nearly the same price (to be fair I didn't try the k-sig ball, my accusation is based on testing I've seen).
That be the one.DougE wrote:Like the MG-C4 you play and for only 5 bucks more.jasonfish11 wrote:Oh well there are other ballz that are just as good for nearly the same price (to be fair I didn't try the k-sig ball, my accusation is based on testing I've seen).
I guess people wanted something to believe in. They wanted someone to take on the establishment, rid the swamp of overpriced big-brand golf balls.Duke of Hazards wrote:Who cares about K-sigs, when there are literally thousands of twice hit Pro V's for $1/ea on ebay?
Nice find Doug on the article. Very interesting and it provides a perfect explanation for the K-sig phenomenon. I have never found a K-sig while scrounging but I will keep my eyes open now.DougE wrote:Haven't even read the story yet, but it looks like the Costco Kirkland Tour Ball is done!
But what made the balls a hot item among fanatical golfers is the revelation that, by some accounts, they perform like rivals that sell for more than twice as much.
That idea sent shock waves through a billion-dollar industry, left Costco out of stock for weeks at a time and caused secondary-market prices for the ball to soar. Its popularity is threatening one of the sport’s long-held consumer beliefs: when it comes to the quality of golf balls, you generally get what you pay for.
“This is just a perception killer,” said Adam Beach, owner of an equipment review website called MyGolfSpy, which bills itself as the Consumer Reports of golf. “This will change the entire industry.”
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The balls were made at a factory in South Korea by a company called Nassau Golf, which also manufactures balls for TaylorMade, one of the major equipment manufacturers. According to Nassau officials, the company had an excess supply that it sold to Costco through a third-party trader. But that supply appears to have been exhausted by overwhelming demand.
So that’s a mystery solved. They’re essentially a top-end TaylorMade ball, rebranded with the Kirkland label. So they really are quality balls. As for what happens next, well, you should be able to guess:
The same low prices that sparked a frenzy for the Kirkland ball may also have endangered its future. According to a Nassau executive based in Europe, the company believes the expected retail price for the ball would be closer to $45 per dozen, all costs considered.
This executive said that both Nassau and TaylorMade, its biggest client, are unhappy with the rise of the $1.25 golf ball and that the company won’t sell excess supply in such large quantities again. A TaylorMade spokesman didn’t respond to a request for comment.
My advice, don't buy just any old version of used bal!s. Stick with the most recent version. Even if they were in the water for a time, that time can't be that long if it's a new version of the ball. Consequently, it would likely not be affected by any water intrusion to speak of. They had been customized by Titleist with my 3 lines of copy, a custom number, as well as my personal Sharpee marks. So I know they were mine. They were Pro V1x models, which I was playing early in the year. (I switched back to the Pro V1 model in the mid summer.) So they were in there at least for 5 or 6 months. Weighed in at 45.7, just like my new ones. 
Excellent post, Dr. DougEDougE wrote:Rather than start a new thread, I just stuck with this one since it is about ba!ls.
I did a little experiment today. I was out in the garage cleaning a hundred or so of the bal!s I pulled out of the pond on our 10th hole a few days ago. (It was a crappy day and no one was on the course, so I took a bucket and my long ball retriever and killed an hour and a half of my not-so-busy schedule.) I have always wondered what the difference is between a water-logged ball and a perfectly good one. Many of the bal!s I pulled out were the newest versions of popular bal!s, so I know they couldn't have been in that pond for more than a season. Others looked like they had been there for a few years.
So, I picked out a bunch of what seemed like good, present model specimens and some which were obviously old and water-logged. I then pulled out the scale I use for weighing small mixtures of epoxy where mixing exact quantities to the 10th of a gram is required. I put a brand new, still-in-the-sleeve Pro V1 on the scale and got a reading of 45.7 grams. To be sure about that weight, I put 2 more Pro V1s from 2 different boxes and got the same reading. Then I took a Pro V1, same 2016 version as the others that had been in the water for some time this year. 45.8 grams. Another 45.7, same as the new ones. Then I found an older Pro V1 model, which looked like it had been in that pond awhile longer. 46.3 grams. Finally I found an old Callaway HX Tour. Could have been there for years. I bounced it on the concrete. Thud. Like a rock. Weighed it. Came in at 48.4 grams.
On a side note, two of the ba!ls I found in the pond were my own!
Very cool idea. Thanks for sharing the results.DougE wrote:...I did a little experiment today...
This is awesome, thanks for doing it!DougE wrote:Rather than start a new thread, I just stuck with this one since it is about ba!ls.
I did a little experiment today. I was out in the garage cleaning a hundred or so of the bal!s I pulled out of the pond on our 10th hole a few days ago. (It was a crappy day and no one was on the course, so I took a bucket and my long ball retriever and killed an hour and a half of my not-so-busy schedule.) I have always wondered what the difference is between a water-logged ball and a perfectly good one. Many of the bal!s I pulled out were the newest versions of popular bal!s, so I know they couldn't have been in that pond for more than a season. Others looked like they had been there for a few years.
So, I picked out a bunch of what seemed like good, present model specimens and some which were obviously old and water-logged. I then pulled out the scale I use for weighing small mixtures of epoxy where mixing exact quantities to the 10th of a gram is required. I put a brand new, still-in-the-sleeve Pro V1 on the scale and got a reading of 45.7 grams. To be sure about that weight, I put 2 more Pro V1s from 2 different boxes and got the same reading. Then I took a Pro V1, same 2016 version as the others that had been in the water for some time this year. 45.8 grams. Another 45.7, same as the new ones. Then I found an older Pro V1 model, which looked like it had been in that pond awhile longer. 46.3 grams. Finally I found an old Callaway HX Tour. Could have been there for years. I bounced it on the concrete. Thud. Like a rock. Weighed it. Came in at 48.4 grams.
On a side note, two of the ba!ls I found in the pond were my own!
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