Srixon Distance Review

Srixon Distance has had the same job for two decades and does it without apology. A big high compression core, a thin ionomer cover, and nothing else in the recipe. It is firm the way a two piece ball with no soft mantle to hide behind is firm, and it tells you so at every strike: a sharp crack off the driver, a metallic ring off a blade putter, and iron shots that arrive in the hands as one hard tap.

For a quick swinger who does not care about greenside spin the payoff is real. Ball speed is high, driver spin is low, and the flight is a flat penetrating line that holds up in wind better than plenty of soft balls costing three times as much. It is also tough. The cover shrugs off a cart path bounce, and a sleeve will survive a month of range and course use without going out of round.

Everything after that is what twenty two dollars buys. Wedge spin is minimal, so a full shot from 100 yards lands and takes two big hops, and a greenside chip has to be played as a bump and run because it will not check on any surface. Feel is the weakest part of the ball, hard enough on a cold morning that a thin iron stings the hands for a hole. None of this is a surprise and none of it is hidden. It is the cheapest way to hit it a long way, and at that it is very good.