"So i joined the fad and drilled my first new age urethane ball; i chose the blue hammer. I throw 16 so the numbers are just poop no matter what. i watched my friend struggle with his before he knocked the shine off so i took the shine off before i even drilled mine. long story short i was able to play 10 to 5 and still have too much hook and hit. Are u serious? I know our sport has gone down the tubes but really. I thought urethane meant i will not hook?"
As others have already said, urethane will hook with many of the same dependencies as all other balls.
I am surprised you had to remove the shine from the Blue Hammer as it is supposed to come 4000 grit matte, not polished. I wonder what you used to remove the shine? If it was a 4000 grit pad, that should have been good. If you used a lower grit number, then you added hook to the ball.
Urethane is very different from resin in one important fact that may help you here. If you polish resin, it goes longer and save the energy for the backend and you usually get increased backend, which is what makes many pearlized ball harder to control. However, if you polish urethane, you not only get increased length AND the ability to handle less oil, you also get less backend, which adds to the control.
So get your polish back out and polish that ball. Then report back. I think you'll be happier.
FYI Although Hammer is a great brand, you unfortunately picked one of the larger hooking urethane balls currently made. I suspect that with your rev rate and ball speed the polished pearl Avalanche Urethane would have been a better choice. the Blue Hammer is a solid. The Avalanche is a pearl and comes polished. Storm makes a Pearl Natural (urethane) but it also comes 4000 grit dull.
Good Luck.
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