Golf’s powers-that-be made a very big announcement today about one of the most politically-charged topics in the golf industry: The question of whether its time to roll back the golf ball.
The R&A and USGA will be proposing a new golf ball testing standard for elite competition that would roll back performance by 20 yards (18 metres) or more.
The second iteration of the e12 Contact employs a “Contact Force” dimple that features a raised area in the centre that results in more contact with the clubface at impact than traditional dimples.
Callaway has unveiled new ball offerings covering a wide range of price and performance levels, specifically the new ERC Soft and lower-priced Warbird models.
The genesis of the switch is that Woods was getting some questions from his team about the Tour B X and wanted to be able to speak intelligently about the differences.
An extension of the Z-Star family, the Diamond model is a three-piece ball that takes technological benefits from the Z-Star and Z-Star XV, and blends them into a single, tour-calibre golf ball.
With Divide’s unique two-tone cover construction, putting alignment comes easy with a 360-degree line, while every shot will produce a strobe effect to help show off the speed and direction of spin.
The new Q-Star shares technology with Srixon’s tour-validated Z-Star Series, but it’s packaged into a two-piece, ionomer construction for great value and performance.
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.
Australian Golf Digest
