NEW Vintage Spalding Surlyn Cover Super-Flite 1 Dozen Golf Balls vs Vice Drip Golf Balls: which is safer?
Vice Drip Golf Balls is the clear pick. NEW Vintage Spalding Surlyn Cover Super-Flite 1 Dozen Golf Balls carries a failing PFAS grade, and we never recommend buying a failing product.
Spalding
NEW Vintage Spalding Surlyn Cover Super-Flite 1 Dozen Golf Balls
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
PossibleLeaching or off-gassing from ionomer resin and surface treatments
ReportedMicroplastic shedding from cover degradation
PossiblePFAS in cover coating or fluorinated additives
Our pick
Vice Golf
Vice Drip Golf Balls
PFAS grade
Overall grade
Verdict
Hazard flags
Material
Confidence
Where these two actually differ
- We flag Leaching or off-gassing from ionomer resin and surface treatments, Microplastic shedding from cover degradation and PFAS in cover coating or fluorinated additives on the Spalding and not on the Vice Golf.
- The Spalding is Surlyn cover (ionomer resin) with unknown surface treatment where the Vice Golf is synthetic polymer core with urethane/elastomer cover, which is most of the difference in these two grades.
- The gap is 35 points, wide enough that this is not a close call, and the Vice Golf is the one to buy.
- We are less certain about the Spalding grade, at 35% confidence against 72%, because it discloses less.
Both products run through the same public rubric: materials, coatings, brand disclosure, lab findings, and recalls, plus a beyond-PFAS hazard analysis. Grades are model-based estimates, not lab tests. How grades work →
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