Bridgestone Tour B RXS Review

The RXS is the model in Bridgestone's tour family that nobody markets hard, and it is the one that suits the most golfers. The cover is the interesting part, because it reacts to how hard it is struck, rebounding fast off a driver and staying on the face longer on a short shot, which is a neat way of asking one ball to do two jobs. A dense new mantle sits under it, and the core has been firmed slightly over the last generation without losing the soft strike the RXS is bought for.

On the course it behaves exactly as advertised for its target golfer. Wedges check on the second bounce, half shots hold their line, and putts come off the face with a muted, slightly heavy sound that slower swingers tend to prefer to anything Titleist or Callaway sells. What it does not do is keep up off the tee. Against the X and XS models in its own family it gives up real yardage at any speed above its brief, and against the firmer tour balls from everyone else it is simply not the long option.

That is the deal, and it is a fair one if your scorecard is decided by wedges rather than drives. At fifty five dollars a dozen it costs what a tour ball costs, which keeps the value grade honest rather than generous.