Equipment

TaylorMade launches ultra-low compression Tour Response and Soft Response golf balls

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4 years ago

Feb 3, 2020

TaylorMade Golf has introduced its new Tour Response and Soft Response golf balls – both of which feature an ultra-low compression.

The Tour Response ball contains a soft 100% cast urethane cover designed to allow grooves to better grip the ball for increased wedge spin. At the same time, a crosslinking chemical reaction forms the urethane material and creates an irreversible link in a bid to provide for improved shear resistance and maximum durability.

The new addition is the first non-Tour ball to offer this 100% urethane cover from a major manufacturer. Per the company, the use of a urethane cover also aims to provide golfers with effortless compression and Tour-quality performance at an affordable price.

Speaking on the new Tour Response ball, Eric Loper, TaylorMade Director of R&D, Golf Ball stated

“Urethane is simply the best performing cover material you can use on a golf ball. That’s why it’s found on 100% of the balls used on the PGA Tour. It’s that good. We’re bringing that same innovation to our Tour Response line – essentially making a softer version of our TP5/TP5x that utilizes multiple Tour technologies.”

The Tour Response from TaylorMade contains an ultra low-compression of 40 and features the same technologies found in their TP5/TP5x pix balls. The brand’s Speedmantle with HFMq aims to produce faster ball speeds while the firmer second layer of the ball surrounds the soft inner core in a construction designed to deliver an explosive transfer of energy.

In the brand’s new Soft Response, the company utilized a specialized Extended Flight Dimple Pattern in a bid to protect distance in a softer golf ball. The shallow u-shaped dimples are designed to promote decreased drag and increased lift, ultimately allowing the ball to stay in the air longer at a lower spin rate.

Aimed at players who possess average swing speeds and who struggle to keep the ball airborne, the Soft Response balls contains a soft ionomer cover.

The soft ionomer cover aims to add to the feel of Soft Response, but also provide improved scuff-resistance, shear resistance and overall durability.

Equipped with an ultra-low compression ZnO Flex Core (a compression of 35), Soft Response is designed to meet the needs of golfers seeking an extremely soft feel without diminishing distance.

On the new Soft Response, Loper said

“Soft Response is a multi-layer golf ball designed for even softer feel, and with our new Extended Flight Dimple Pattern the player can obtain explosive distance.”

TaylorMade’s Tour Response arrives in white and yellow, while Soft Response will be available in white, yellow and matte red.

Tour Response ($35/dozen) and Soft Response ($25/dozen) will be available at retail on 2/28/2020.

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Limited-edition gear spotted at the PGA Championship

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5 hours ago

May 15, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

The second major of the season is here, and with it, custom gear aplenty! Taking inspiration from both Louisville, Kentucky, and host course Valhalla, the OEMs have been having some fun with the designs.

Check out PGA Championship staff bags, some custom kicks, and a very cool putter grip from SuperStroke.

2024 PGA Championship staff bags

Callaway

PGA Championship Staff Bag Giveaway ? See below how you can win the bag and headcovers being used this week by #TeamCallaway at the second major of the year:

-Follow @callawaygolf
-Tag 2 friends in the comments pic.twitter.com/8HbGdPHiFK

— Callaway Golf (@CallawayGolf) May 13, 2024

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TaylorMade

From the stables to the fairway. ?

This year’s PGA Championship staff bag and accessories pay homage to the Derby City with callouts to the run for the roses, the fastest lap in track history and more.

Dive into all the details of this beauty: https://t.co/afhEVKHWLj pic.twitter.com/8eoP6tDZq1

— TaylorMade Golf (@TaylorMadeGolf) May 13, 2024

Scotty Cameron’s putter cover features the Scotty Dog in Viking helmet

Bettinardi’s KFC-inspired putter covers

Ping’s bourbon-inspired putter cover

Rory McIlroy’s Kentucky Bourbon Trail-inspired Nike Air Zoom Victory Tour 3 shoes

FootJoy x Todd Snyder Mint Julep Premier Series

(Photo courtesy of FootJoy)

Brooks Koepka’s Kentucky Bourbon Trail-inspired Nike Air Zoom Infinity Tour shoes

(Photo courtesy of Nike)

SuperStroke’s PGA Championship grip

Check out all of our photos from Valhalla here.

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John Daly WITB 2024 (May)

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8 hours ago

May 15, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

John Daly WITB accurate as of the PGA Championship. More photos from the event here.

Driver: Ping G430 LST (9 degrees)
Shaft: Newton Motion 6-Dot

3-wood: Ping G430 LST (15 degrees)
Shaft: Newton Motion 4-Dot

Hybrids: Ping G430 (17, 22, 26 degrees)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold

Check out more in-hand photos of John Daly’s clubs here.

Irons: Sub70 659-CB (6-PW)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold S300

Wedges: Sub70 TAIII (50, 54, 60)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold S300

Check out more in-hand photos of John Daly’s clubs here.

Putter: Odyssey Ai-One Milled One T CH
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy Tour 2.0

Grips: SuperStroke custom

More photos of John Daly’s WITB in the forums.

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Toulon Golf collaborates with Valhalla Golf Club for latest Small Batch putter

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8 hours ago

May 15, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

Toulon Golf has today officially announced its latest Small Batch putter — the Valhalla.

Discussing the putter, Preston Toulon of Toulon Golf said: “This putter is a collaboration with the club at Valhalla and incorporates three of the many things that make the state of Kentucky great – horseracing, bourbon and championship golf. The head of the putter and headcover have several allusions to a jockey’s silk and there are thoroughbreds on the sole.”

Inspired by Toulon’s classic tri-sole Santa Monica design, the company sought to modernize the profile and design leveraging its 904 stainless steel and 6061 aircraft aluminium across the sole. Toulon describes the Valhalla’s profile as “slightly oversized blade whose proportions are meticulously balanced to maintain the look and feel of the Santa Monica, while increasing the putter’s inertia to create one of the most forgiving putters we have ever designed.”

Throughout numerous prototypes, Toulon paid particular attention to the L-neck, with its full shaft of offset, adding a bit of length for better blending with the slightly wider and longer blade.

On the rear of the putter are homages to horse racing in the form of jockey silk diamonds and Churchill Downs-inspired font.

The sole of the putter features a large cavity covered by a 6061 aircraft aluminum sole plate. According to Toulon, this allowed for the addition length to the putter and improved inertia as well as moving more mass to the perimeter for greater forgiveness.

In another nod to Valhalla, Toulon uses a milled watermarked limestone pattern, a reference to stone featured widely on the property.

As with all the Toulon Small Batch putters, the team paid particular attention to the topline thickness and radius to achieve a desired look. “Soft yet crisp was the design intent,” according to the company.