The Acushnet Company invests significant time and effort to ensure that their products are Best-in-Class in terms of quality, performance and consistency. As such, in the rare event one of their products fails to meet USGA requirements for size, weight, velocity or any other conformance criteria they destroy rather than market such products. As such, only products that are of a minimal defect are available for purchase.
Pro V1 Practice golf balls are conforming products that differ only due to a cosmetic blemish such as paint, ink or registration of stamping. Pro V1 Practice golf balls do not have any construction or performance deficiencies.
Both products may be used in the casual round of golf including those with scores posted for handicaps, and most competitions, with the possible exception of high level competitions invoking the Local Rule requiring balls to be on the List of Conforming Golf Balls
