What To Look For
Golf is a pricey sport, but if you purchase bulk or overrun golf balls, you can realize tremendous savings. Before you pull out your credit card and buy a dozen, consider your skill level. If you're a novice or beginner, bulk "value-rated" balls, durable and constructed for distance, are a better choice. The "X-out" golf balls are manufactured by big names but thanks to some slipup in production, aren't sold at full retail price. Sold at slashed prices, the balls have an X stamped on them.
Common Pitfalls
Not all discount golf ball sites offer new, overrun golf balls. Look for the retail site's golf ball grade policy. If they don't list "new" or "overrun" as categories, they don't sell them. Additionally, don't focus on brand name. If you're a novice golfer, consider "value rated" balls. Golfing Valley reports these are great all-purpose new balls for novice players, built more for distance and wear than for performance. Many are top manufactured but sold at deep discounts for inventory clearance. On the other end of the spectrum, "x-out" balls are top-rated high performance balls that suffered some manufacturing slipup. Typically, the slipup is in printing and color rather than in composition. If you golf regularly, these are perfectly suitable and much cheaper alternatives to full retail.
Where To Buy
Online retailer Golfball.com sells popular name-brand golf balls, such as Titleist and Wilson, and their lines of new overrun and logo golf balls are a steal. While they do carry bulk golf balls, the balls are stock and blank; if you want to have your balls customized, you get a high quality golf ball at an affordable price.
Cost
Golfballs.com routinely runs clearance sales on name brands like Wilson. For example, as of October 31, 2010, Wilson's Smartcore Golfballs ranged between $12 and $15 a dozen. Bulk, stock surlyn-coated golf balls were $170 to $190 for 24 dozen. In the category of overruns and logo golf balls, Callaway Golf Warbird Plus Logo Overrun Golf Balls were priced below the $12 a dozen price tag, and many other manufacturers' new, overrun golf balls, such as Top Flite and Wilson, were well under $15 a dozen.
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