Srixon’s two-piece Q-Star, now in its sixth generation, debuts with a softer compression core to facilitate distance, particularly for moderate swing speeds.
Srixon brings multiple colours (red and yellow) to its new Q-Star Tour Divide golf balls, but unlike other companies, they’re bringing those two colours to each share a hemisphere on every ball.
The TaylorMade TP5 Pix 2.0 balls reflect the next iteration of the company’s approach to adding flashes of colour to a white golf ball to improve focus and enhance performance.
The Srixon Q-Star’s two-piece construction isn’t what you would think of for a tour-level ball, but a deeper look into the design reveals some of the same guiding technologies found in the company’s tour-played Z-Star and Z-Star XV balls.
The new Titleist Pro V1 and Pro V1x golf balls – somewhat remarkably given their near two decades of consistent dominance across all levels of the game – enter a fundamentally different space technologically this year than ever before.
The new TaylorMade TP5 and TP5x balls continue the company’s technological heritage of using a five-layer construction to optimise launch, spin and speed specifically for the requirements of wood, iron and wedge in your bag. But the latest iteration’s upgrade focuses on the layer just below the cover.
Eight players put the ball in play last week at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, according to Titleist reps, with expected conversions to be more in coming weeks.
If you’re a US PGA Tour pro, you might swap out every few holes because, well, you get your pellets for free. But what about for those of us that pay for our spheres?
