Vice Golf at INGOLF: Why Vice Is the Smart Choice for Regular Players

If you play regularly, you notice it in your budget first. A dozen tour balls for over sixty francs, a driver for seven hundred — and both lose half their value within two seasons. Vice Golf takes a different route: same construction, same materials, but straight from the maker to the player.

We stock Vice at INGOLF because for regular players the value is simply the best in our range. And because we offer something an online shop can't: the chance to test all of it first.

The real point: direct-to-consumer

Vice sells without a middleman. No distribution layer, no pro-shop margin, no tour-contract marketing budget baked into your price. What remains is the product.

In practice: a dozen Vice Pro costs CHF 45.90 rather than the 60 to 75 francs comparable tour balls sell for. At two lost balls a round across thirty rounds a year, that stops being a detail — it is the price of a set of wedges.

The balls: cast urethane, not ionomer

The decisive technical difference in a golf ball is the cover. Cheaper balls use ionomer (Surlyn) — durable, but low-spinning around the green and firm in feel. Tour balls use cast urethane, which generates more greenside spin and feels softer.

Vice casts urethane across the entire Pro line:

The Vice Pro is the all-rounder — three-piece, built for mid-range swing speeds. The Pro Plus is four-piece and firmer, for higher swing speeds and a flatter long-iron flight. The Pro Soft targets slower swings that need compression. And the Vice Drive (CHF 22.90) is the two-piece option for beginners, or for rounds where balls go missing.

If you are unsure, the 24-Ball Variety Pack at CHF 89.90 gives you eight designs, three of each — cheaper than buying your way through four separate dozens.

The clubs: triple forged, hand-built in Germany

With irons the direct-to-consumer model shows even more clearly. The VGI series is triple forged and hand-assembled in Germany — construction and finishing you normally find on considerably more expensive brands.

The VGI01 set is CHF 771.40, the VGI03 Black CHF 857.10. For a hand-built, fully customisable iron set that is unusual. If you are starting out or want a complete bag, the Vice Boost+ Iron Set is CHF 429, and the full Boost+ set with woods and wedges CHF 834.90.

Alongside those: the VGD01 drivers (CHF 339.90, or the lower-spinning VGD01+ at CHF 449.90), the VGF01 fairway wood, VGW wedges with full-face grooves from CHF 119.90, and milled VGP putters from CHF 189.90.

And here is what separates us from a web shop

Buying equipment online means guessing. You read the specs, watch a video, order — and three rounds later realise the loft is wrong or the ball gives you less spin than you needed.

At INGOLF that step disappears. On our four TrackMan simulators in Opfikon you see ball speed, spin rate, launch angle and carry on every shot. Which means:

You can hit two drivers back to back and compare the numbers instead of trusting feel. You can see whether the Pro Plus genuinely gives you the flatter flight, or whether the Pro suits your swing speed better. And you will know within twenty balls whether an iron set fits you — in any weather, all year round.

That is exactly why we stock the brands we play ourselves. It only makes sense to recommend equipment you can verify on numbers in your own bay.

The bottom line for regular players

If you play twice a month or more, Vice is the rational choice: tour construction at prices that make losing a ball bearable, and clubs that are hand-built without you paying for the name on them.

Come by, book a bay and hit your way through the range. We are at Stelzenstrasse 6 in Opfikon — a few minutes from Zurich city centre and the airport on tram 10.