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.

NEW Vintage Spalding Surlyn Cover Super-Flite 1 Dozen Golf Balls

Spalding

NEW Vintage Spalding Surlyn Cover Super-Flite 1 Dozen Golf Balls

PFAS grade

Good 50/100

Overall grade

Poor 32/100

Verdict

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Hazard flags

⚑ 3

Material

Surlyn cover (ionomer resin) with unknown surface treatment

Confidence

35%

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 Drip Golf Balls

Vice Golf

Vice Drip Golf Balls

PFAS grade

Excellent 85/100

Overall grade

Excellent 85/100

Verdict

Buy

Hazard flags

none flagged

Material

synthetic polymer core with urethane/elastomer cover

Confidence

72%

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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