What a pleasant surprise: I purchased the MOjave for late shifts, burnt tracks and, perhaps, a way to keep a ball more versatile than polyester in the bag.
It turns out that my MOjave is even more versatile than what I had in mind and now has a place in my THS and tournament bags. The MOjave features a mildly asymmetric core surrounded by Brunswick’s PowrKoil 17 coverstock, which has been around since the mid-1990’s when it was featured in Brunswick’s high end balls such as the Sapphire Zone and Rhino Pro LE, later in the PBIII MVP and currently in Slingshot. The pairing of PK17 with a MoRich core results in a ball that rolls true, reacts in a consistent manner and hits hard on dry, medium-dry and shorter medium conditions today.
For many of us who bowl on predominantly medium-dry to medium typical house conditions, the MOjave may become your most used, perhaps your baseline ball. For sport conditions, the MOjave could be your answer on lower volume mediums and medium volume, shorter length conditions. I’ve used it on Cheetah with excellent results. On the local THS, the MOjave offers a board of tug, the target board, a board of leakage right and sometimes, another board right with no loss of carry. Most of my stronger equipment overreacts two right and picks up too early a board left. Where I may have two boards with stronger equipment, the MOjave gives me three or four boards.
My MOjave began life at 15 pounds 4 ounces with 2.8 ounces of top weight and a 4 1/4” pin. Mo Pinel provided the layout recommendation: 60-degrees x 4.75” x 50-degrees with no weight hole to start (and none added later as the ball rolls just great as drilled without weight hole fine-tuning, statics in spec). The cover remains in factory polished condition.
The MOjave utilizes a high radius of gyration version of the EZ Rev core feature low differential and intermediate differential RGs. This results in a ball with low flare characteristics that, on the plus side, helps retain energy effectively but is out of its element on longer oil patterns or patterns exhibiting substantial carry down.
In summary, the MOjave is a keeper, a ball that may cover more than one slot in your arsenal and should be able to fill this need for years to come. Well done MoRich!
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Edited on 1/1/2011 at 10:24 AM
